A password manager feels like a solved problem. Pick one, store your credentials, move on. Yet breach after breach tells a different story: compromised passwords remain the single most common entry point for attackers, responsible for over 80 per cent of hacking-related breaches according to Verizon’s annual data breach report. The issue is rarely that people choose weak passwords. It is that the systems around those passwords, how they are stored, shared, rotated, and governed, are fundamentally broken in most organisations.
The gap between personal and enterprise password management
For individuals, the calculus is simple. A good password manager generates unique credentials for every account, fills them automatically, and encrypts the vault with a master password only you know. The market has plenty of decent options for this use case.
But the moment you move beyond a single user, the complexity multiplies. Teams need to share credentials without exposing them in plaintext. Departing employees need to have their access revoked instantly, across every system. Compliance frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS demand audit trails showing who accessed what, when, and from where. And increasingly, organisations need to manage not just passwords but SSH keys, API tokens, database credentials, and privileged session access.
