Re: Password Vault Solutions

[Wesley Hayato Tomatsu <tomatsu () OXY EDU>]

We use Password Manager Pro and it works reasonably well for us although we
aren’t really making the full use of all of its features such as automatic
password resets and such. But it was a lot cheaper for us than Thycotic as
we only have a license for 5 administrators (only administrators are able
to add new resources into the database; you can have an unlimited number of
users who are able to access or change existing passwords).

Adding resources is a bit complicated and searching doesn’t always work the
way you expect it to.

I also set up a shell script that uses the PMP API (which requires
allocation of 1 admin license for the API account) which other folks can
use to help streamline the process.

Wesley H Tomatsu '01
Director of Infrastructure & Information Security
Information Technology Services
Occidental College
Work: 323.259.1428
Fax: 323.341.4895

On January 27, 2017 at 10:23:22 AM, Gregg, Christopher S. (
csgregg () stthomas edu) wrote:

Hi,

We are evaluating password vault and privileged access management solutions
at our university.  The primary goal is to house IT service accounts and
shared accounts with elevate privileges, but we are also considered
expanded future use such as possibly using such a solution to manage access
to critical systems, and manage short term privilege escalation.  We’d also
be able to use the tools to better audit the use of these accounts.

After an initial set of product demos we are leaning towards Thycotic or
ManageEngine Password Manager Pro.  Do any of your schools have experience
with either of these products, and would you be willing to share how your
implementation and ongoing use have gone?

Thanks,

Chris



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