Why Actioneer?

The Invisible Password Manager™ saves time and keystrokes.
Actioneer is simplicity itself.

A simple text message is all that it takes to drill down into a desired site to complete a query or a posting.

For example, to do a search at a popular Web site, you just type in the search string, add a short keyword to direct the action message to the appropriate site, and press [Enter]. Actioneer navigates to the site and drills down to initiate the search. You are presented with the results without having to navigate to the site, or even to open up your browser.

And now, it does even more for password-protected sites.  It completes an automatic login to the site using your encrypted user name and password for the site. It works almost invisibly, with no additional input from the user, hence "The Invisible Password Manager."

You can either type in the search string capture it from highlighted screen text via a quick-key shortcut. For example, you receive an email saying that “the next topic for discussion at the book club will be “The Great Gatsby”; you highlight the word “Gatsby”, execute a quick-key shortcut that opens an Actioneer window and inserts the string Gatsby; you type “bk [Space] [Enter]”, and Actioneer navigates to the Amazon Web site, logs you in to your account and triggers a search in the Books section for the string Gatsby.

Actioneer's prize-winning Action Messaging software has won high praise for speeding access to the Web. The two new versions carry Actioneer’s patented Action Messaging technology to a new level with a comprehensive Invisible Password Manager that enables easy access even to password-protected Web sites.

In the course of carrying out an action to query a Web site, Actioneer now can automatically log you in to your account at the site. When you type “bk gatsby [Enter]” Actioneer not only goes to the Amazon site to conduct the search for “gatsby”, it also logs you into your personal Amazon account using your encrypted user name and password—with no additional user interaction.

Take your passwords with you everywhere, safely encrypted.

Suddenly, almost everyone is carrying a tiny USB thumb drive, for moving data from computer to computer, and increasingly also for carrying software applications. Install Actioneer Portable on a thumb drive and you can have a fully functional password manager with you at all times, with all your user names and passwords secured with Triple-DES encryption.

Just plug into almost any Windows 2000 or Windows NT4 or later computer with a USB 2 port and use the Actioneer application to achieve quick and easy interaction with Web sites both public and private, both open and password-protected sites.

Prevent ID theft by keyloggers and other snoopers.

Perhaps the most pernicious form of identity theft, keyboard logger ‘malware’ surreptitiously installed on a computer monitors keystrokes to capture user names and passwords and then sends them off for nefarious use.

Even if your own computer is free of such malware, you have no way of knowing whether a computer you borrow for signing in to a password-protected site is infested, putting you at risk whenever you type in a user name and password on someone else’s computer.

Actioneer prevents this kind of ID theft. When you plug your thumb drive into an infested computer, Actioneer logs in to password-enabled sites via a software agent that fetches your encrypted user name and password from the Actioneer Vault and sends them off to the destination site with no keystroke input.

This protects you from keyboard loggers, and also from over-the-shoulder visual or optical snooping and even from acoustic snoopers who can record the sound of your keystrokes for subsequent analysis by ordinary speech recognition software trained to recognize the sounds of individual keys on a computer.

Automatic log-in is easier—and enhances security.
New with Actioneer PM and Actioneer Portable

Actioneer executes automatic log-in to password-protected Web destinations in a way that is virtually invisible.

Access to secure Web data is much easier and quicker. Secure data can be accessed with far fewer mouse clicks and keystroke entries because navigation to the site and entry of user name and password are all completely automatic, followed by execution of the action (if any) called for by the Connector.

There is no need to memorize a flock of username/password pairs, or to be thwarted in entering a site because you have forgotten a user name or password.  Actioneer puts an end to the password chaos ensnaring almost everyone who accesses multiple password-protected Web sites.

In addition to saving time, Actioneer enhances the security of password-protected data—you can more easily engage in good password practices, and you avoid ID theft from keystroke capture because you don’t enter user names and passwords by typing them in.

Actioneer enables good password practice.
And good password practice enhances data security.

Good password practice is easy to state but hard to do: use long, hard to guess passwords with mixes of alphabetic upper and lower case letters and numerals; use a different one for each password-protected site, and never write them down on paper which might be seen by an intruder. These rules are well known, but almost impossible to put into practice.

So people tend to compromise by trying to use just one or a couple of easily remembered user name/password combinations everywhere. But even this approach, besides being contrary to good practice, comes to grief when the site rejects the user name you want as already taken, or imposes constraints on allowable passwords that make your favorites unusable.

By automating the process of password management, Actioneer unburdens the user and fosters good password practices. And, once entered into Actioneer, user names and passwords never again need be entered manually when invoking auto log-in, thereby preventing ID theft by keystroke capture.

Finally, to be comprehensive, a password management solution must be portable, so it can work when you are away from your main computer and working with a computer at a customer site or at a friend’s home. Without the portability offered by Actioneer, you are likely to carry paper copies of your passwords and to manually type in user name/password pairs, both of which compromise security.

Action Messaging saves time and keystrokes.

Just type in an action message including a user-defined keyword denoting a specific action at a particular site and the Actioneer agent does the work for you of navigating to the site and executing the action. For example, just typing “wsj interest rates [Enter]” causes Actioneer, triggered by the keyword ‘wsj”, to navigate to the password-protected Wall Street Journal site, log you in to your account, and drill down to fetch and present articles on “interest rates”.

Similarly, you can post data to a secure Web-accessible data base, including multi-field data.

Actioneer comes with a collection of Connectors that determine which Web resources can be reached via Actioneer and the specific action to be taken at each destination. Each Connector is an XML script including default keywords and a user prompt displayed when the keyword is entered, plus data to identify the URL addressed by the Connector.

Beyond those supplied by Actioneer, additional XML Connectors to new Web destinations, both public and private, can be provided by an IT department or developed by advanced users with Actioneer’s Tool Kit for Connector Creation. To request a copy, contact us at Technical Support

Actioneer fosters increased use of Web resources.

Because Web access is so much easier, you will find yourself making more use of Web resources via Actioneer. 

For example, excellent free Web dictionaries have long been available, but pointing and clicking your way to look up an unfamiliar word you encounter in reading is often just too much bother.  But with Actioneer, you just highlight the word, text-grab it with a keyboard shortcut. type "lu [Enter]" and the definition of the word appears, in response to the keyword lu, for lookup.

Other keywords likely to increase your utilization of Web resources include syn to find synonyms when you are composing text; wpd when you encounter a technical term you find confusing, and wkp to look up a term in the Wikipedia encyclopedia.