Why should startups use a Password Manager?

Rick Great answers Vanta Team Member
As an employer, implementing a password manager can bring several benefits to your organization as you improve your security posture & prepare for compliance:
  • Improved Password Security: Password managers provide a secure platform to store passwords and ensure that your employees are using strong and unique passwords. This helps to prevent password-related security breaches, which are a significant threat to data security.
  • Reduced Password Fatigue: Password fatigue is a phenomenon where users are overwhelmed with the number of passwords they need to remember, which can lead to weak password creation, reuse, and sharing. By providing a password manager, you can reduce password fatigue and increase your employees' compliance with security policies.
  • Simplified Audit and Compliance Reporting: Most compliance frameworks require detailed documentation and reporting on security controls, including password management. A password manager can provide a central point of control and reporting for password management activities, simplifying audit and compliance reporting.
  • Enhanced Productivity: Password managers can save time for both employees and IT teams. Employees no longer need to remember and manage passwords manually, and IT teams can reduce the time spent on password-related support issues.
Overall, implementing a password manager can bring significant benefits to your organization! It can improve password security, reduce password fatigue, simplify audit and compliance reporting, and enhance productivity. You can view our list of supported Password Managers here, which includes free-to-use tools.
 

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    Shannon Idea generator Vanta Team Member Conversation starter

    This list is such a great reminder about the importance of Password Security! Thank you Rick! Password Managers for the win! 

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    Jess Vanta Team Member Great answers

    Agreed with Shannon! Something to remember is that you may have employees who are new to using password managers altogether—especially if they haven't used a password manager for personal use.

    It's helpful to set the tone (e.g. during onboarding) that it's okay to ask questions about password managers and where possible, grab 1:1 time to ask any questions they may have! As an example, Vanta's Enterprise Engineering (IT) team holds weekly office hours and the team is always happy to help employees 1:1 with questions about password manager usage.

     

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    Lucien Pinto Community Founding Member Conversation starter Idea generator

    1Password is clearly changing the game going... passwordless :) ! Less friction, More adoption : that's the motto :) !

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