v-GO Shared Accounts Manager

v-GO Shared Accounts Manager provides quick and secure access to systems and applications for administrators, temporary workers, and others who must share account IDs. It enables shared credentials to be securely stored and retrieved, with the needed authorization and usage tracking to improve security, increase accountability, and reduce compliance exposure.

How It Works

A user requiring access to a privileged account makes an online request to check out a specific username and password. The request is approved or denied based on the user's role and group membership in the corporate directory (e.g. Active Directory) and/or an approval workflow in the enterprise's identity management system. The system then issues the username and password to the user subject to policy-based usage controls, such as a two-hour credential expiration or a limited number of logins.

The id/password, the associated authorization profile, and expiration information are all granted and tracked by v-GO Shared Accounts Manager. When the user accesses the desired system, v-GO Shared Accounts Manager automatically logs the user on. And because the user never sees the id/password, there is nothing to share — inadvertently or maliciously.

Once expired, the username and password are automatically deleted from the user's credential store and checked back in to v-GO Shared Accounts Manager. Usernames and passwords can only be checked out to one user at a time, establishing a single point of accountability for all activity on the target application.