PASSWORD SYNC FOR ACTIVE DIRECTORY, AZURE, SAP

Password synchronization is an automatic process of copying a new password to the user’s accounts on different systems. Users have then only one password to remember. Some of the benefits are a convenience for your users and employees, increased security, and reduced costs.

For medium and large organizations password synchronization is a quick and most effective way of solving password management problems. The chance that the user is blocked from getting work done because of a forgotten password is related to the number of different passwords user needs to remember. The more passwords the user needs to remember, the higher the chance to forget one. Requests about password resets and other password-related issues demand the most helpdesk resources. Fewer user passwords to remember = fewer help desk calls.

When users only have one password to remember you will see a sharp decline in the number of forgotten passwords as well compared to the situation with many different passwords with different password policies.

You may, however, have these challenges:

Password policy must be identical for different passwords

 User-ids must be identical or be mapped

 Process in place for asynchronous handling if the target system is unavailable

Solutions for password synchronization are in general cheaper than Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions and are more robust to changes in the software configuration of the target systems.

You have low complexity in a password synchronization project as you don’t need to change any user process. Just inform them that they now have the same password support for all systems – they just have to change the password when Windows ask them to!