{"id":73521,"date":"2023-01-06T19:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T00:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?p=73521"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:12:33","slug":"password-management-architecture-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/password-management-architecture-matters","title":{"rendered":"Why Password Management Architecture Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In your organization, employees\u2019 digital identities, and more specifically their passwords, are the keys that grant access to your most valuable resources and data\u2026 and it\u2019s estimated that over 8 million<\/a> passwords are stolen every single day. All passwords are at risk, all of the time, and the burden of ensuring they are complex enough to reduce the threat of compromise falls too heavily on the end user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees care about accomplishing their work, and they\u2019ll find ways to make their day-to-day lives easier (i.e., getting access to resources and apps quickly and easily) at any cost. For most, password security<\/a> is just not a priority, especially considering the sheer number of passwords needed to access all of their resources. This leads to heavy password reuse, sprawl, and common password use due to password fatigue<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Password managers were created to help solve this problem, or at least mitigate risk wherever possible, by creating a better way for end users to produce unique, complex passwords for each of their accounts. Over the years, cloud-based architectures were developed to expand capabilities even further (especially as smartphones and tablets became default devices in everyone\u2019s life), and opened the doors for organizations to more effectively manage and deploy them on behalf of their users. And yet, devastating breaches are still occurring each year, compromising millions of accounts, credentials, and other personal and company information. Why? Because at the end of the day, despite the many advancements in functionality of password manager technology, the burden of password security still falls largely on the end user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something needs to change in order to better protect passwords in the workplace, and that next step involves reevaluating the architecture password managers are built upon. Password management architecture is just as important as the features and benefits the manager offers (i.e., password generation, autofilling, sharing, etc.) to end users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s dive into different password manager architecture setups to truly evaluate the security problem at hand and discuss a modern solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of Password Managers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n