And the password management tools only work with a fixed list of predetermined Web sites in many cases.
There are also highly-effective password management packages to help the rank-and-file manage their many passwords including LastPass, 1Password and RoboForm.
Meanwhile, most of these services will continue to be used mainly by users in search of autologin features and password management.
Vendors providing privileged password management solutions include Cyber-Ark, ManageEngine and Quest Software.
Password management software comes in many flavors, including password applications for IT teams to secure privileged assets such as critical servers, databases, routers, switches and applications.
Some password management applications also support shared passwords for groups such as finance that have many of their team members accessing a common resource like a reporting application or credit reporting service.
Unsafe password management is a particularly egregious area the survey finds, for example, that 43 percent of respondents admit that employees manage passwords in spreadsheets or on sticky notes and 34 percent share passwords with their co-workers for applications such as FedEx, Twitter, Staples and LinkedIn.
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Earlier this year we wrote about password-management tools that let you use encrypted passwords to prevent strangers from accessing your data.
So the USPS deployed v-GO password-management software from Passlogix.
That they have not hired the right leadership for security, implemented the right program, and then taken the correct tactical steps (for Gawker: exercising an incident response plan, implementing password complexity and use requirements, having an intrusion management strategy, having a data breach plan) in the context of an overall information security strategy.
In December 2010, in an online forum used by Anonymous, Keys, under the username AESCracked, allegedly shared a username and password that he told them would allow them to access the content management system of Fox 40 and the Times.
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