Unify - Password Manager

Passwords are your first line of defense in protecting access to sensitive corporate applications and data. It's great to set strong password policies, but when users forget their latest passwords or write them on sticky notes and leave them on the desk, secure corporate networks and systems are compromised.

The problem is that the stronger and more complex a password is – the harder it is for employees to remember. Productivity declines dramatically while employees sit and wait for IT to reset their passwords. When IT security policy requires high strength passwords to change every few months, you have a major IT and help-desk headache in the making.

As a result, password management is a growing concern for IT departments that are already stretched thin. Fortunately for IT and help-desk personnel, the remedy for a password management conundrum is simple.

The Ensim Unify Password Manager provides an easy to use standard interface that allows IT to set and strictly enforce strong password policies. It also allows IT to establish any number of identity challenge questions to be used, that will allow employees to verify their identity and securely reset their own passwords. This is done through a self-service web portal without a call to the help desk – any time of the day or night. The main benefits are:

• Organizations can set and strictly enforce strong password policies
• Organizations can frequently change maximum strength passwords
• Employees can safely reset their own passwords
• There is a complete audit trail for compliance and security initiatives

Installed in under two hours, the Password Manager is a simple solution that minimizes calls to the help desk and maximizes employee productivity. With it, organizations of all sizes report a 30% decrease in the number of help desk calls for password reset.

Our customers say it best:

“Ensim Unify significantly reduced the time required for user provisioning – before Ensim, we spent three hours per day resetting passwords, now we spend less than 30 minutes. Users now manage their own accounts based on standard IT policy, improving response time while giving IT a complete audit trail. It’s a great addition to our environment. We can handle employee growth without adding new IT staff.”

Hardware

Intel Pentium 4 processor (1 GHz or faster) with the following:

• 512 MB (or higher) RAM
• At least 20 GB of hard disk space (unless otherwise specified)

Software

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system (Standard or Enterprise edition). It is recommended that the operating system be freshly installed using default settings.
• Microsoft Exchange 2003 Systems Management Tools Service Pack 2 (SP2) (for Exchange 2003 management)

or

• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Systems Management Tools (32-Bit) (for Exchange 2007 management)
• The following Microsoft Windows components (installed and enabled):
• IIS
• .NET 2.0 framework
• ASP.NET
• SMTP
• NNTP

Support Applications

• MS Exchange 2003 / 2007
• SharePoint Services 3.0
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Support Devices

• Windows Mobile
• Blackberry
• iPhone with ActiveSync