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Secure password storage for small organizations
Credential sprawl discovery for small orgs storing passwords in spreadsheets
How much it itches 19 of 40
Will people pay 0 of 35
- Job to be done
- When staff share passwords through a spreadsheet and sensitive files need secure storage, an IT admin needs to locate and secure stored credentials, so they can protect the organization's accounts.
- Buyer
- IT admins at small businesses and nonprofits
- How often it comes up
- One-off
- How critical
- Medium
- Evidence layers
- 1 of 9
- What to build
- Discovering and securing credentials in spreadsheets is a security scanning and vault workflow that does not need a model.
Customer complaints 5
Owners and users describing the problem in their own words: Reddit, low-star reviews, App Store, Ask HN.
Small education org's external admin requires staff to share passwords, which are stored in a shared spreadsheet accessible to non-admin users.
r/sysadmin 782 upvotes
Vendor stored admin passwords in a plaintext file on a robotic machine controller, forcing IT to remove it and securely reissue credentials.
r/sysadmin 768 upvotes
Don't publish your passwords on github!
r/sysadmin 636 upvotes
Password manager licensing costs have risen to several thousand dollars for a small number of seats, exceeding antivirus costs.
r/sysadmin 531 upvotes
Need a secure shared place to store sensitive spreadsheets that is not a password manager, accessible to IT admins with SSO and 2FA.
r/sysadmin 4 upvotes
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