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11.29.07
How To Select Password Management System
 By
Oded Valin
Sometimes when I look at envelopes I understand technology. When I was a student in college, I worked in the server room where we had a secret lock box full of envelopes.
Every time I had to upgrade a database or create a new user, I remember looking for the right envelope (will it be this yellow one? Will it be this blue one?).
After I found it, I went happily to the designated server. You can imagine how disappointed I was when I went to the Windows server or to the UNIX server, typed the password stored in the envelope and got "Username and password do not match" or "The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and domain are correct."
Imagine yourself on a cold night, all you want to do is finish this shift and you can't. Just because someone forgot to update the password in the envelope!
In another company where I worked, we didn't have envelopes. However, any employee who had worked there during the previous 4-5 years could come whenever he wanted (and I mean any year that he wanted ...) and type the "standard" password - Passw0rd? The name of the company? Top secret? Admin? Q1w2e3? And like magic, they were in with the most powerful permissions.
Standard passwords become widely known to every worker, vendor or technician who visits your company; I assume in your private house you wouldn't let this happen, would you?
Well, in a world where we don't have extra time and everything is automatic, why should we waste time managing administrative passwords manually?
What should you look for in a Password management system?
Continue reading this article.
About
the Author:
I hope I’ve helped you understand what a Password Management System should look like. Now I can only recommend that you visit Cyber-Ark (www.cyber-ark.com) and find the best solution.
Oded Valin, Regional Sales Engineer, Asia Pacific – Cyber-Ark Software
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