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Emily Neary

Stop Misusing TAP: A Cybersecurity and Licensing Perspective on MSP Access Practices

May 1, 2025May 1, 2025 by Emily Neary

Using TAP for technician login might seem convenient , but it violates Microsoft licensing and security best practices. Here’s how to manage access the right way- with PAM.… Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Feature: Tech Specific Options

April 14, 2025 by Emily Neary
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TechIDManager handles a variety of tasks. It includes managed passwords, individual user password vaults, and shared password vaults. There are many configurable permissions for what a technician can and can’t … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

The Comic I Fought ChatGPT To Make

April 4, 2025 by Emily Neary
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Martin: XKCD is awesome. I love the comics and the style—funny, smart, minimalist. While reading one day, I got an idea for an ad: a comic strip in that style, … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, Passly, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Feature: One Time Password Share

May 7, 2025March 17, 2025 by Emily Neary
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At TechIDManager, we recommend against sharing admin accounts. However, we understand that in some cases, it may be necessary—such as granting access to outside vendors or providing temporary admin access … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Feature: Passwords; Random or Passphrases

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Emily Neary
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Passwords come in various styles and formats. TechIDManager has always supported randomly generated passwords of any length. Recently, we introduced an additional option: users can now choose between a fully … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Feature: Force Password Rotation

May 7, 2025March 17, 2025 by Emily Neary
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In the unfortunate event of a breach, standard operating procedures dictate that the first step should be rotating admin passwords. By default, TechIDManager rotates admin passwords every 24 hours. However, … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Documentation, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Make The Shift From Passly To TechIDManager

July 9, 2025February 28, 2025 by Emily Neary

As the news spreads that Passly by Kaseya is coming to an end, many organizations are left pondering the future of their password rotation and identity management solutions. This … Read more

Categories Cybersecurity, Software, Technology Tags cyber insurance, cyber security, downtime, MFA, named accounts, PAM, Passly, password rotation, PCI, privileged access management, privileged account management, Privileged Identity Management, Stop Sharing Admin Accounts, traceability, zerotrust

Passwords vs Passphrases: New Feature!

February 12, 2025 by Emily Neary
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XKCD hit the nail on the head years ago with this comic about the difference between passwords and pass phrases.

One is random characters, another is words that you know … Read more

Categories Short Videos Tags short videos

FBI Says Obvious Thing … But … There Is More

February 6, 2025 by Emily Neary
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The FBI just put out this public announcement, totally obvious to anybody in the security realm that you should disable local admin accounts. They said North Korean IT workers have … Read more

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Convert PAM to LAPS

May 19, 2025November 12, 2024 by Emily Neary

TechIDManager’s agents called TechIDAgent can be configured in many ways. If you haven’t read through the documentation on instances, you should start there first. When converting a PAM instance … Read more

Categories Documentation, Installation Tags documentation, Install, install script, integration, Script
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