For IT Managers

Deploy a comprehensive password management solution.
Actioneer's solution protects data by enabling automatic log-in to secure sites both while in the office and while using off-site computers.

It can do this because Actioneer offers a portable password manager, so Actioneer can be used both in the office and while logging in from a computer at a customer's site or a friend's house.

Because it is portable, Actioneer lets users avoid carrying passwords around in unencrypted form, and avoids the need to enter passwords manually-both practices that compromise data security.

Enhance enterprise data protection.
Because Actioneer is easy to use and makes for easier access to Web sites both open and secure, end-users are likely to make use of it.

Using Actioneer means critical data is better protected from security risks both within and external to the enterprise, because good password practice is more likely, and passwords are not keyed in manually to achieve Web access.

Induce better password practices by end users.
Without a password manager, it is difficult for users to employ good password practice: use long passwords with mixes of numerals and upper and lower case letters, a different password for each destination site, and frequent password revisions.

Users typically need to access perhaps 10 to 30 password-protected sites. To make manual password management feasible, they tend to use short, easily remembered (and guessed) passwords, to repeat the same password for multiple destinations, and to change them rarely.

Worst of all, they tend to write their passwords down and stick them on their computer monitors or to the undersides of keyboards, compromising security. They are likely to enter passwords via manual keystrokes, exposing themselves to ID theft via keystroke capture, and, when away from the office, to carry clear-text paper copies of their passwords.

Even so, they occasionally find themselves locked out of a site because they have forgotten the password. Recovering a lost password wastes time and effort and often involves email or some other process that itself compromises security of the password, which must then be changed, wasting more time.

Answering help desk calls for lost passwords is costly and wasteful.

Actioneer PM in the office helps avoid all these bad practices by making it very easy to engage in good password practice.

The use of Actioneer Portable means that these good practices prevail not only when in the office or on one's own laptop, but also when using a 'borrowed' computer at a customer site or a friend's house.

And, users never need to type in a password for a site accessed via Actioneer, thereby foiling the common ID theft technique of keystroke capture.

Easier access to data increases utilization and end-user productivity.
Action messaging is much quicker than traditional point-and-click navigation, saving many steps. By embedding a full-function password manager within the action messaging application and enabling auto log-in, Actioneer saves still more keystrokes, further speeding and simplifying interaction with Web-accessible information resources.

By making interaction with data assets quicker and easier, Actioneer lowers a barrier to the use of those assets, especially password-protected data bases. The resultant increased utilization raises the ROI of valuable enterprise data assets, often underutilized due to difficulty of access.

Thus, Actioneer increases end-user productivity and enhances the utilization and ROI of enterprise information assets at the same time it is increasing the security of those assets.

It is easy to create a Connector for just about any Web-accessible enterprise data, including automatic log-in for password protected data assets. Contact us for a copy of our Tool Kit for Connector Creation.

Scale easily from small to large user populations.
Actioneer is easily distributed to user groups ranging from a single user, to small groups, to departments, on up to the entire enterprise, at a predictable and economical cost per user. It is easy to set up a pilot installation with a small number of users, then to roll out the application more broadly.

Existing authorization for data access is not affected because Actioneer agent simply functions as a surrogate for the manual clicking and keystrokes normally executed manually by the user.