

Some of the main challenges to password management include: Exposed passwords can result in data breaches, external hacks, insider threats and even exposing your critical business data and processes to malware and ransomware attacks. Passwords are your first line of defense for keeping your company’s assets secure as well as enabling your users to be productive. Properly securing your passwords – especially administrative passwords – is vital for enterprise security. Managing passwords is a difficult security challenge for all IT departments and organizations worldwide. In this whitepaper you’ll learn about some of the challenges in password management for remote administration then you’ll see how you can use Devolution’s Remote Desktop Manager (RDM) to centrally and securely manage your remote passwords for both privileged administrative users and business users with the same platform. In addition, both administrators and users frequently use various web browsers for a variety of daily tasks and many web sites require credentials that need to be secured as well. This means that is absolutely essential that your Remote Desktop administration platform is secured. Remote Desktop connections often have elevated privileges because they need to perform different administrative tasks. While Remote Desktop is an essential tool, it’s vital to remember that it is also a very powerful application that that needs to be secured. Remote Desktop connections are essential for efficient remote management and troubleshooting. Remote Desktop enables you to start an interactive session with a remote system and to control that system just as if it were your local system.

Remote administration is one of the core activities for IT administrators today and Remote Desktop is the administrator’s go to tool. He is a frequent contributor to technical publications and the author of several books on database development and programming. THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY THE PETRI TEAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS.īy Michael Otey, president of TECA, Inc., which focuses on Windows and SQL Server product development and consulting.
