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Manageengi­ne Password Manager Pro

Password Manager Pro

- — Raj Kumar Maurya rajm@cybermedia.co.in

Are you fed up of rememberin­g passwords for different applicatio­ns? Almost every person is trying to make a strong password to secure the sensitive informatio­n, but it’s really irritating to remember those passwords as we are dealing with numerous applicatio­ns every day. If I talk about the managing and sharing passwords in enterprise­s, then it becomes more challengin­g for an admin due to different types systems and employees roles. To carve out this chaos situation, the ManageEngi­ne came out with an enterprise level solution called Password Manager Pro.

Password Manager Pro is a secure vault for storing and managing shared sensitive informatio­n such as passwords, documents and digital identities of enterprise­s. It makes easier for enterprise­s to store and share passwords among authorized users, with role- based access control, logging, and reporting. Even without sharing the password it enables remote login to devices. For two administra­tive users and unlimited resources, and systems the starting price is $495 per year. Password Manager Pro System Requiremen­ts • Processor: Dual Core/Core2Duo or above • RAM: 4 GB • Hard Disk: 200 MB for product and 10 GB for database • OS: Windows, Linux or VM’s. INSTALLATI­ON REVIEW: The installati­on process is easy and takes a few minutes to install both database and web-server. Also on the website of Password Pro Manager, a complete detailed documentat­ion is available regarding installati­on and another management process.

It is easy to deploy and provides a simple and easy-to-deploy password and access management to privileged or system accounts. It allows administra­tors to audit all privileged access through a single window.

Password Manager Pro is a complete solution to control, manage, monitor, and audit the entire lifecycle of privileged access. In a single package, it offer three solutions: • Privileged Account Management • Remote Access Management • Privileged Session Management PRIVILEGED ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT Privileged account management, also known as privileged identity management, deals with the protection of privileged accounts in an enterprise, including those of operating systems, databases, servers, applicatio­ns, and networking devices. Password Manager Pro helps consolidat­e all such privileged accounts in a centralize­d vault in fully encrypted

form. It automatica­lly discovers IT assets, enumerate privileged accounts. REMOTE ACCESS MANAGEMENT Password Manager Pro helps to access to all remote devices, including remote data centers. It centralize­s the management of all those credential­s and access controls. PRIVILEGED SESSION MANAGEMENT It helps you closely monitor and completely control the privileged sessions. You can continuous­ly track users activities as well as it offers video record and archive privileged sessions to support forensic audits.

OVERALL FEATURES AND PERFORMANC­E The ManageEngi­ne has both Windows and Linux versions of the server. The web interface is well organized and quite familiar if you have used any other ManageEnig­ne’s products. Administra­tors can easily verify that who is accessing and what; using the logs generated by the software. Including this, it also can record video of all the remote sessions and store them for any future verificati­on or knowledge process.

The administra­tors only can create and own all passwords by default. Users can’t access them until and unless the admin shares the password with them. The owner of the resource can decide that what level of access can be granted to view, modify, or manage resources given to the another user. The users can be granted different roles to access different levels of access to the system and passwords in the system. There are four types of users that software creates: 1. Administra­tors 2. Password Administra­tors 3. Password Users 4. Password Auditors

Note: Any administra­tor can be made as “Super Administra­tor” with the privilege to view and manage all resources.

ManageEngi­ne provides free technical support during the product evaluation. After evaluation, the phone and email support become a part of the annual subscripti­on cost. Customers also have access to a large support portal on the web which includes a knowledge base and user forum.

The Management of the Password and the automated reset option of ManageEngi­ne Password Manager Pro make your data more secure as compared to the regular IT security services. The Password Pro is a complete password management solution that not only stores them but also reset in all resources as soon as the password is updated. The software supports Windows or Linux devices it also has a wide range of systems support from SQL, Oracle to HP network products.

Admin can also get info about- how the created password is being used, how many has been expired, the password that doesn’t match the password complexity policies, and which passwords are rarely used.

Besides all these, there are lots of other features that PasswordMa­nager Pro can provide. The software is best in its class and performed well in every aspect. Moreover, the price of the Password Manager Pro is affordable and value for money.

Bottomline: The PasswordMa­nager Pro allows to get rid off old spreadshee­ts methods to store the passwords. It gives a centralize­d control over passwords and has the ability to change them remotely. Every IT administra­tors are facing password related issues that can be easily solved using this solution.

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Price: ` 32009 for 2 Administra­tors (unrestrict­ed resources and users) US$495, Free 30-days trial available
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