In the News: 2008

"Random Password Manager can remotely set every Cisco IOS device to different password, and can recover the current password for each device using a secure web interface."

"RSA SecurID technology helps to ensure that only staff with physical possession of an RSA SecurID hardware authenticator and properly provisioned credentials can access the passwords generated and stored by Lieberman Software products."

"[Random Password Manager] solves the problem of keeping the same password across the network for administrator accounts, and likewise keeps the IT team from keeping a massive list of passwords on an internal site."

"Random Password Manager is designed to protect organizations from a catastrophic compromise of their IT infrastructure's security."

For some third-party security software providers that work closely with Microsoft, it's also been trying at times. "It's been a roller coaster," says Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, which makes password and administrative management tools that work with Microsoft desktop and server products.

"[Enterprise Random Password Manager] especially shines in environments where server account passwords are used in a cascading manner, for other servers, applications or services."

"So why should you care about these boring, hum-drum privileged accounts? Because these accounts have elevated access rights, meaning those with access can bypass the internal controls of the target platform."

"The issue of shared account password management must be addressed. This means you should obtain a method of reliably and regularly changing your passwords."

"Lieberman Software shares with our enterprise customers the vision that virtualization is the future of the datacenter."

"By supporting Hyper-V, Random Password Manager can automatically update every local administrator password on virtual Windows servers in the enterprise."

"Kuppinger actually attributes the idea to Lieberman Software's Kevin Franks, who should know since Privileged Account Management (PAM) is a big area for his company."

"With little effort from the administra­tor, this product can seek out and change all passwords, including system service accounts. This provides solid security across the entire environment."

"Lieberman Software is an established software vendor with focus on Add-ons for Windows management. The core focus is solutions for mass management and PAM (Privileged Account Management)."

"Richard and Greg talk to Chris Stoneff of Lieberman Software about the challenges of passwords. The discussion ranges from password alternatives to complexity policy and privileged account password management." 

"In other cases, as Lieberman Software's Chris Stoneff pointed out in an article for Microsoft TechNet, enterprises tell the IT department's entire staff what a password is. The more people who know a secret, the more likely it will become public knowledge, he wrote."

"If you want to secure those accounts whose passwords never get changed, and need to audit who has access to these passwords, then Enterprise Random Password Manager is the solution for you."

Lieberman Software's Chris Stoneff describes how the root password on Mac systems can be managed by automated processes.