New functionality extends the Open Directory Platform™ and makes it easier for IT teams and MSPs to manage and protect user passwords
LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Sept. 12, 2022 — JumpCloud Inc. today announced the launch of JumpCloud Password Manager. This new product gives IT admins and managed service providers (MSPs) better controls, and enables users to easily manage passwords and collaborate across multiple users and groups without compromising security. With JumpCloud Password Manager, IT admins and MSPs can rest assured that all users can securely access critical resources, while reducing the overhead of forgotten passwords, security risks, and lockouts.
JumpCloud Password Manager relies on a decentralized architecture that is a hybrid between a cloud-based password manager and an offline password manager. This approach minimizes security risk by keeping credentials stored locally on user devices and by syncing vaults between devices through JumpCloud servers in an end-to-end encrypted way. By eliminating the need for users to create, manage, and remember master passwords, JumpCloud Password Manager secures against targeted attacks that aim to steal master passwords to access user credentials stored in traditional cloud-based password managers.
With the release of JumpCloud Password Manager, JumpCloud is unifying another critical component of the IT stack. This further delivers on the company’s vision for a complete Open Directory Platform that gives IT teams and MSPs a single pane of glass to securely manage identities, devices, and access. Using the password management capabilities, teams can improve their security posture by eliminating the human factor from password management. Additionally, the release builds on the technology and intellectual property JumpCloud acquired with its purchase of MYKI in February of this year.
“It is exciting to see MYKI technology incorporated so quickly into the JumpCloud platform. This is a testament to the strength of the MYKI tech portfolio and innovation, and a great example of teamwork across development teams in many countries and states,” said Antoine Jebara, co-founder, MYKI and general manager of MSP products, JumpCloud.
JumpCloud Password Manager is an excellent option for organizations where single sign-on (SSO) is either not deployed or not a complete solution. MSPs in particular are often challenged to provide access for legacy applications that cannot be accessed through SSO. When SSO is not an option, JumpCloud Password Manager is an ideal solution to deliver secure and comprehensive access management. As infrastructure and IT capacity matures, customers can easily complement JumpCloud Password Manager with JumpCloud SSO.
With JumpCloud Password Manager, in-house IT teams and MSPs can:
- Unify access management from a single admin console: Manage SSO, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and password-based authentication across the organization from the JumpCloud admin console.
- Increase visibility over user access across the organization: Augment the admin capabilities by clearly identifying who has access to what accounts.
- Improve insight into weak credentials: Equip team members with the ability to identify and avoid using weak and reused credentials.
- Collaborate securely: Enable users to share passwords, two-factor authentication (2FAs), payment cards, and other types of secrets in a secure and auditable manner.
Try JumpCloud Password Manager Now
JumpCloud Password Manager is available in Early Access now and will go into General Availability later in the fourth calendar quarter of this year. Pricing is available on request. Click here to learn more, and join us for a webinar on September 22 on how to enable frictionless access with password management.
Additional Resources for IT Admins
- The Path to Zero Trust With JumpCloud, an infographic showing how JumpCloud offers the path of least resistance toward Zero Trust implementation — without invoices from multiple vendors.
- Zero Trust Security for MSPs, a guide on how to build a Zero Trust roadmap that benefits you and your clients.
- Zero Trust Demystified, a small to medium-sized enterprise’s guide to Zero Trust and actionable tips for successful implementation.
About JumpCloud
JumpCloud builds an Open Directory Platform™ that helps IT teams Make (Remote) Work Happen™ by centralizing management of user identities and devices, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt Zero Trust security models. JumpCloud® has a global user base of more than 180,000 organizations, with more than 5,000 paying customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike.
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Press Release Addendum
Key Features and Benefits of JumpCloud Password Manager:
- Users gain quick, Secure, Frictionless Access™ to sites and services, regardless of the required authentication method, removing one of the most painful aspects of identity and access management.
- IT admins can better monitor and enforce their password security health, and reduce cyber risk by eliminating weak passwords and poor password management behaviors.
- Leverages a secure decentralized architecture that minimizes security risk of targeted attacks against cloud-based password managers by removing the need for users to create, manage, and remember master passwords.
- Eliminates the need for users to remember or create a long list of complex passwords.
- IT staff can focus on things that matter, reducing time spent on employee lockouts, resets, and managing organization-wide passwords.
- Store secrets locally on corresponding devices only for better security – Passwords and other secrets are locally encrypted on devices and synced with end-to-end encryption through JumpCloud servers, preventing catastrophic breaches.
- Auto-fill passwords and 2FA tokens – Store and auto-fill passwords and leverage the Password Manager’s authenticator capability to securely access applications while browsing without compromising convenience.
- Enhanced collaboration without compromising security – Ability to securely share passwords and 2FA secrets with multiple users or groups.
- Generate strong passwords – Create strong, complex, and unique passwords automatically with the JumpCloud password generator.
- Administrative controls and reporting – Provision and deprovision access to JumpCloud Password Manager and generate password usage reports from within the JumpCloud admin console. Onboarding and offboarding users is vastly improved by simply adding a user to appropriate user groups. Revoking access is just as easy.