Ensure Compliance With the New Password Policy Enforcement Feature

In today’s cyber landscape, strong user passwords are crucial for maintaining organizational security. For IT professionals, robust passwords are the first line of defense against growing cyberthreats. Weak passwords often act as open invitations to cybercriminals, making sensitive data vulnerable to breaches and loss. That’s why prioritizing password complexity is a must for IT professionals to mitigate risks and ensure a secure digital environment for everyone involved.

At IT Glue, we are continually committed to enhancing security and streamlining IT operations through robust and secure asset, password and SOP management in one interconnected hub. As the next significant step toward that commitment, we’re excited to announce the launch of our all-new Password Policy Enforcement feature in IT Glue. This powerful addition empowers IT administrators and managers like you to create and enforce highly secure passwords tailored to your specific needs, offering greater control and flexibility over password policies.

Boost your security and maximize password strength

IT Glue’s Password Policy Enforcement feature now allows you to select the type and complexity of your passwords, which will then be applied to any newly created passwords afterward, ensuring the new policy is followed. You can determine the type of passwords you want to create (complex passwords or passphrases) and their complexity (password length and required uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters).

The goal is to give you more control and flexibility in creating and enforcing strong passwords that meet the highest security standards and align with your organizational policies and requirements. Generate and document your sensitive data and passwords all in one place, without needing an external password-generation tool.

In addition to the Browser App, Password Policy Enforcement is also available through our IT Glue Mobile App and Browser Extension. No matter where you generate new passwords the policy that you customize will be applied, ensuring your passwords are secure and compliant for all organizations.

Notably, admins also have the option to generate passphrases as passwords. These are six-word passwords divided by a hyphen (‐). IT professionals often struggle to share passwords over phone calls, which can lead to misunderstandings and errors. Passphrases, however, are both strong and easy to dictate, reducing these issues when sharing passwords by phone.

Password Policy Enforcement: Unlocking IT peace of mind

Let’s look at some of the benefits that the feature can bring to IT professionals by strengthening their passwords.

Enhanced data protection and cybersecurity compliance

• Set and forget: Once you set the complexity of your password strength for each organization, then each password created afterward will follow that respective policy and standards/requirements.
• Bolster your security: Generate strong, secure passwords that meet industry standards and protect against cyberthreats. With this feature, IT administrators can ensure that all the new passwords created meet the highest security standards, reducing the risk of breaches and enhancing overall cybersecurity compliance.
• Tailored to your needs: Tailor password length and complexity, including special characters, to align with organizational policies and requirements. This feature will let you decide if passwords need to include special characters, numbers, lowercase and uppercase letters, and, if so, how many.

Robust and centralized password management

• Eliminate the need for external tools: Leveraging the full power of IT Glue, you can save time and money by documenting, generating, managing and enforcing secure passwords all in one pane.
• Enhance your IT efficiency: Administrators can centralize password management and streamline the processes of creating, managing and maintaining all of their critical passwords. This enables IT professionals to be more efficient by reducing the administrative burden of having to access multiple siloed tools for these different functions, in turn reducing human error.
• Complete flexibility: You can also easily and quickly adjust and update the password complexity parameters if your organization’s needs change and evolve.

User-friendly options for varied needs

• Simplify your onboarding: While onboarding clients’ employees, IT professionals can generate passphrases as passwords that are secure yet easy to share and remember, reducing initial login issues and support calls. This feature also enhances the end-user experience. To simplify the onboarding process further, this feature will also include an option to require that all passwords be created as passphrases.

Your one-stop solution for all your password management needs

Password Policy Enforcement is a vital part of IT Glue’s comprehensive password management portfolio, which also includes automated password rotation, offline mode for passwords and the IT Glue Vault. Together, these features provide robust protection and streamlined management for all your password needs.

Learn more about this feature in the knowledge-based article here.

IT Glue’s new Password Policy Enforcement feature ensures your organization’s sensitive information is protected with customized, secure passwords. This feature, along with our other password management capabilities, can significantly enhance your security and operational efficiency, all from one interconnected hub that stores all of your mission-critical IT documentation. To learn how IT Glue provides you with a single source of truth for all your critical IT assets, passwords and SOPs, get a demo now.