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Enterprise Random Password Manager Automatically Updates Privileged Passwords and All of the Programs, Files, and Objects that Reference the Credentials ORLANDO, Fla. — In response to threats posed by decrypted local passwords leading to peer-level network access, and the difficulty in thoroughly and rapidly updating every system with unique credentials, Lieberman Software Corporation today announced the availability of Enterprise Random Password Manager. Recent high profile security breaches, such as the TJX Companies attack, highlight the serious consequences that can result when sensitive administrator or root passwords are accessed by unauthorized sources. Enterprise Random Password Manager was developed to automatically discover and update all privileged password account use throughout the enterprise. It continuously randomizes all local passwords and updates every place where the credentials are referenced, such as services, tasks, and objects. Lieberman Software announced the release at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Orlando, FL, where the company is exhibiting this week in booth 815. “The problem with most password management solutions is that they reactively change only the local passwords that are identified by the IT group,” said Chris Stoneff, product manager at Lieberman Software. “This method is not inclusive of all the places that privileged passwords are used in the enterprise, leading to account lockouts as applications persist in referencing obsolete credentials. The Enterprise Random Password Manager strategy is to manage and update the privileged passwords, and also all of the objects in the enterprise that use these privileged credentials.” As a result of recent data breaches such as this years Societe Generale incident that led to billions of dollars in losses, the security of privileged administrator and root passwords is becoming a critical business concern. Gartner estimates that shared account password management tools will be used by more than 50% of large enterprises by year end 2010 to manage passwords for shared accounts.1
“Specops Password Policy 2.0 is the biggest update to Active Directory
password policies to date,” said Robert Lundh, CEO of Special Operations
Software. “Using Specops Password Policy 2.0 an organization can utilize
the existing Active Directory and Group Policy infrastructure and
substantially increase the password security within the organization.”
Specops Password Policy 2.0 is a password policy system based on the Group
Policy technology in Active Directory and enhances the built-in password
policy of Windows. Specops Password Policy 2.0 provides 20 different
settings from which to choose when configuring a password policy.
Active Directory without and with Specops Password Policy
Currently in Active Directory, the built-in password policy must be
configured on the domain level, in the Default Domain policy or similar.
Consequently there can be only one password policy throughout the domain
and it can only be configured by a domain administrator. Specops Password
Policy is truly Group Policy based and can consequently be configured in
any number of group policies. This has several advantages:






