Enterprise Password Management for Google
Many companies today are considering how to move IT - services to the Cloud. The attractiveness of cost and availability is very tempting! For most mature organizations, however, the move to the Cloud will be gradual and cautious. One of the concerns regarding Cloud computing is security. The question is: How can we ensure that we maintain the same demands for password policies in the cloud as we have on-site?
If you want to move your email service, for example, to Google Gmail, you have to make sure that the password protection is as good as on your present system. For many companies, the password policy in effect for Active Directory is decided by management, and represents the required complexity. Using the same policy for Google will be a natural and acceptable choice.
When users forget their passwords, Google offers to send a new password to an alternative private mail.However, many professional organizations don’t want their company passwords to be sent to private email accounts with limited protection. A solution is required whereby password resets for Google are handled in the same way as for all other company passwords.
Enterprises today demand Password Management solutions that increase productivity, strengthen security and improve service for end-users. Large organizations require that solutions are flexible and dynamic enough to reflect all the different options necessary in complex environments. Organizations are used to making compromises between IT security and cost, but FastPass Enterprise allows organizations to implement password policies according to the security impact of their IT resources and still benefit from end-user self-service, which leads to substantial cost savings at the Service Desk and improved service for the end-user!
FastPass Password Manager is a web-based solution that enables users with forgotten passwords or locked accounts to solve these issues on a 24/7 self-service basis, eliminating the need for support from the IT Service Desk. Users authenticate by answering personal questions, entering PINs or using any other supported authentication method. Security administrators can configure single- or multi-factor authentication profiles. These profiles can be applied to users based on their network connection, making FastPass Password Manager a robust and very secure solution
Single Password through Password Synchronization
The number of systems, and therefore accounts and passwords that information workers need to access is increasing year by year. Many users will prefer only to have one and the same password to remember – this can be achieved with Password Synchronization. FastPass delivers a strong, flexible approach with a wide range of connectors for different systems and applications. Synchronization is transparent, triggered by a normal password change to the Active Directory. FastPass then imidiately synchronizes the pnew password to the target systems. The most used connectors are for Google, SAP, iSeries (AS400), SQL and Oracle. FastPass also comes with a set of generic connectors that allows you to build connectors to your own solutions and thus making FastPass the one solution to handle password across the board for all of your applications and systems
Selective Password Reset
Enterprises have different applications and systems with different password policies. Some organizations use Single Sign-On or Password Synchronisation to tackle this problem. Often it is however not accepted to use the same password for systems with different levels of IT security impact or if you’re not able to harmonize password policies.
Organizations like NIST for instance (FIPS PUB 199) recommends resources to be categorised as low security impact, moderate impact or high impact, and the user should not share the same password between the different categories
To respond to that FastPass Selective Password Reset is an option. From the admin console you configure this and the user can then reset passwords for each individual resource. If the user wishes to reset a password for Active Directory, he selects AD; and if he needs a different password for Google, he just selects Google. This can be combined with all other passwords from SAP, iSeries and other systems where the user has passwords
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