Remote password management after Covid-19

Workplaces around the world have changed radically due to COVID-19. Only a year ago, the idea of remote work was accepted (or not that strange) in modern, leading companies. Now, it would be unusual to hear someone is fully working in an office-based environment.

Companies such as Slack, Spotify, American Express, Salesforce, and others have switched to remote work for the foreseeable future. The most recent survey, conducted by Buffer, shows that 46% of global companies are planning on allowing remote work permanently(and 38% are still considering it).

Did you keep postponing the search of remote password management tools? You are not alone. Everyone expected to come back to a familiar routine soon. Yet, data suggests that such time might not come at all. The time we live in is a new “familiar.”

Starting secure remote password management – better late than sorry

Over the past year, we consulted many companies that wanted to shift to remote work and adjust to the new work environment smoothly.

Most companies shared very similar remote password management mistakes:

• they stored all passwords on sticky notes in office drawers or one large shareable Excel sheet;
• they sent passwords to colleagues via Email or Slack chat;
• they created and used weak passwords that are of simplistic patterns (as 123456789, qwertyuiop);
• they had passwords related to the company (as if an Amazon employee would use a password amazon2021).
• most employees don’t really know how to protect personal information online at all

If you recognize practises used by your company here, that’s totally fine – the transition to remote work was sudden and challenging for all of us.

Yet, when the adjustment period passes and companies realize how close they are to a data breach continuing these practices, they start searching for preventive solutions.

Luckily, you just found one.

PassCamp – a password manager for smooth and secure remote work

PassCamp is a remote password management tool built in a way that naturally prevents you from making too common password mistakes.

Excels and drawers cleared out of passwords

Drawers are far from an ideal place to store passwords. Especially when the drawer is in the office, and you are at least a half an hour drive away.

Excels are even worse. Yes, you can reach your passwords immediately. But that comes with risks.

First, everyone in the team can see all the passwords. You either don’t show any of them or share the whole document. Does that intern really need to see your most valuable clients’ logins?

Now PassCamp solves your struggle. With this remote password management tool, you can share each password with different people and assign permissions for each password as needed. This allows you to ensure only the right people accessing passwords. More importantly, you always know who has access to which password in your remote team and can revoke unwanted accesses with a couple of clicks.

Leave chats for chatting, not sharing sensitive data

Chats, emails, and Excel are not suitable platforms to share passwords. Storing or sending sensitive information in plaintext (a.k.a. readable form) puts you a step away from a data leak.

PassCamp never stores your passwords in a readable form. They are protected with the latest cybersecurity methods – AES-256 and RSA-4096 encryption.

Highly complex security architecture, recognized globally, makes it impossible for an outsider to reveal your data.

Forget all the “yourcompany2021” types of passwords

Of course, yourcompany2021 is easy to remember. But then again, what’s the point of password everyone can guess?

Remote password management can be as easy as remembering a few weak passwords. In fact, you need to remember only one password to access them all. ( Just make sure it is respectively strong.)

Use PassCamp to generate strong, complex passwords and save them into a PassCamp account. Next time when you visit a website, it will autofill that password for you. If you share it with your colleagues, it will do the same on their computers.

Final thoughts

Review the current remote password management practices in your company and make sure to solve common mistakes.

The remote-based future will come anyway, even if it hasn’t happened yet.

By taking the right steps, you will be ready when the day comes. Try out PassCamp for free today.