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ID-Archive: Securing Administrator Passwords


Business Challenge
Solution and Features

In an organization with thousands of servers and workstations, it can be difficult to securely manage local administrator passwords:

  • There are just too many passwords.
  • Passwords are distributed across too many devices.
  • There are too many inter-dependencies between passwords.
A consequence of widely distributed, static administrator passwords is that IT staff retain inappropriate privileges and former IT workers know sensitive passwords. These security problems may violate regulatory requirements for privacy protection or transparent corporate governance.

ID-Archive™ enables organizations to secure administrator credentials:

  • It can periodically randomize every administrator password on over 70 types of servers and workstations.
  • With constantly changing passwords, IT users are forced to sign into ID-Archive to retrieve current credentials.
  • This signon subjects IT users to strong, personal authentication, authorization over which credentials they can access and audit history of each access.