Password Managers
We are all guilty of saving our passwords in our favoured internet browser. Nowadays a password is required for everything we do online and it’s too easy to hit save password with each new service we log into. Even worse to make it easier we rehash the same passwords and phrases repeatedly.
It’s a terrible habit and one we must break to be IT secure, a simple slip of concentration whilst online can expose all those login credentials, including banks, socials and a plethora of other sites saved in the browser. 80% of data breaches are the result of weak, reused or stolen credentials.
Integer IT have thoroughly reviewed the password management market and have added Lastpass, to our security portfolio, here are a few reasons why:
- Lastpass manages passwords from one place.
- It gives every user their own personalized vault, while maintaining a visual with a robust admin dashboard.
- It keeps everyone’s credentials, notes, and information safe using LastPass’ zero-knowledge security model.
- It can share passwords simply and safely, share credentials where employees and clients require access and organize shared credentials by Groups.
- You can go password less, replace the master password with the LastPass Authenticator app or FIDO2 authenticators.
From a management perspective business can:
- Oversee employee password management.
- Update security policies.
- Provision and deprovision users.
- Deploy authentication methods for onboarding and offboarding.
- Federate user logins to LastPass.
- Produce admin security reports.
The Australia Government continues to encourage businesses to have a more robust security posture and in fact encouragement is moving towards mandating with initiatives like the Essential Eight Framework which mirrors Europe and the USA cyber security models. Password managers like Lastpass assist businesses to be compliant ready when the legislation comes.
At Integer IT we continue to invest our time evaluating processes, vendors and policies in the ever-evolving world of cyber security. In the last 12 months alone we have introduced our Advanced Security Services to complement our standard security services and held our second educational Cyber Security Event.
Advanced Security Services include:
- Foundation Cyber Security Audit
- Essential Eight assessments and gap analysis.
- Cyber Security Response Plan
- Mock Security Intrusion.
- Managed Defense and Response, 24/7
Standard Security Services include
Password management, email spam filtering, firewalls and endpoint protection, mobile device management, O365 Teams, OneDrive and email back up, hosted offsite data back and recovery, phishing training and dark web monitoring
Please contact us to discuss your security needs or concerns.
