Features and Benefits

Security, Productivity, Compliance, and Business Continuity.

Password Authority’s security is unparalleled as our deep expertise in encryption and software protection techniques ensures that credentials remain protected at every stage of their use. Critical information like passwords, keys and business logic are protected while on disk, in motion and in use. Risk mitigation is all about applying the appropriate security techniques to address the threats that have been identified against your systems. Password Authority was designed to address the Insider Threat. Password Authority employs many layers of defense and many security techniques not available in competitive offerings, including data and control flow transformations to help protect against both static and dynamic analysis attacks. Learn more about Cloakware's encryption and software protection techniques.

Password Authority’s scalability is unmatched as the only privileged password management solution architected from the ground up to meet the demanding requirements of large global IT operations. Scalable, flexible and enterprise-ready, it can manage millions of credentials for applications and administrators alike across multi-site, heterogeneous environments. Password Authority’s push technology simplifies the delivery of password updates to systems and custom applications across large distributed operations.

Password Authority’s platform support exceeds that of other offerings by providing a wide range of server and client platform deployment options, as well as an extensive list of managed devices, system and application. Password Authority created the market for Application to Application/Database password automation and is unrivalled in its performance and security implementation to help safeguard your critical applications while maintaining your service levels.

Password Authority’s extensible connector technology allows you to manage accounts on virtually any back-end device, system or application. Out of the box, Password Authority supports a wide variety of common datacenter systems such as databases, servers and routers. Easy to use templates make it easy to add plug-and-play support for other systems. Learn more about platform support.

Password Authority’s “auto-connect” feature enables administrators to connect to devices, applications and applications using managed passwords without ever having to see/view the password. This provides a significant increase in security through the reduction of knowledge of the most critical passwords of any organization.

Password Authority’s high-availability design aligns with enterprise-grade "five-nines" reliability in mind. It supports high-availability techniques such as load balancing, clustering, failover/failback, data replication and verification, multi-site deployment, multi-homed access and secure local-caching to ensure that credentials are available when they are needed.

Password Authority’s logging and reporting gives you the detailed information you need to prove password compliance and ensure best practices. Auditors are becoming more sophisticated and are demanding ever more details about your operations. Activity logging and reporting data are at your fingertips and also available in standard syslog format. You can easily extend your analysis with third-party aggregation, correlation, monitoring, notification, and alerting tools to help prevent fraud, data breaches and misuse of corporate data.

Password Authority’s role-based tasks and workflows are presented in a thoughtfully-designed Web browser interface that enables even novice or occasional users of Password Authority to manage passwords efficiently and confidently. All functions are also accessible through a CLI and JAVA API to enable integration with custom scripts and applications. Detailed online documentation helps users find answers quickly.

Password Authority’s “On-Demand” registration allows organizations to take advantage of their existing directory administration processes in order to allow internal and external personnel dynamic access to the critical accounts needed to maintain their devices, systems and applications. Without this capability significant additional administration overhead would be placed on an organization and likely at a moment when speed is of great importance. This feature also allows external support personnel from not having to be pre-registered to Password Authority, rather simply escalated under normal procedures to gain the privilege of accessing Password Authority.