One of a system administrator's must-have items in his toolbox is PuTTY. PuTTY is a small, lightweight program that is perfect for telnet and SSH connections. It doesn't require any installation, it's just a single EXE file and you're good to go. A feature of Secret Server that I personally have always found extremely useful is the launching ...

Secret Server 5.0 is currently under development, and one of the features that we know for sure that will be in 5.0 is searching Secret Fields. This has been a popular request. We had several obstacles to achieve this, and we have implemented a solution that is secure but effective. The search works by Secret Server creating an index catalog for ...

Secret Server has supported a "Mobile Edition" for over a year now but it is always tricky making sure that it works correctly on all devices. Our approach was to bake mobile support into the base product (ASP.NET based) so it simply scales down to the capability of the device.  That sounds simple but unfortunately it depends on ...

Here is a new feature coming in Secret Server 4.1 - it is the visual keyboard and is a configurable option for the login screen.  It is designed to thwart malware such as keyloggers which could be running on a public computer and could capture your password if you entered it using the keyboard.  The visual keyboard uses a different ...

Some users who are currently using eWallet and other single user password managers want to migrate to an enterprise solution. This will give them the benefit of tracking and managing all privileged passwords in a company. We are currently working with one customer to produce a tool that will allow a user to migrate from eWallet to Secret Server ...

Here is a teaser trailer showing automatic opening of Remote Desktop from a secret in Secret Server.   Watch movie (Remote Desktop from Internet Explorer) Watch movie (Remote Desktop from Firefox)   There are some technical difficulties in getting Remote Desktop to work like this since it encrypts the password in the .rdp file in a ...

Back in Secret Server 3.0, we added bulk operations to make it easier to deal with lots of secrets.  Typical example - I need to add our network administrators to these 100 passwords with View permission.  This can be easily accomplished using the "Add Share" option at the bottom of the search grid on the home page. What ...

One of the most requested features in Secret Server is theming. I have seen several customers skin Secret Server to fit their company's colors and logo. The only down side to that is, when Secret Server is updated, all of those nice changes were lost. A feature that we will be releasing soon is Custom Themes. It goes beyond just changing the style ...

On November 16th we will be releasing a minor update for Secret Server. This update includes: Ignoring the selected folder if the folder panel is collapsed when performing a search from the home screen. Changing the import tool to allow duplicates if explicitly allowed. There will now be a checkbox called ''Ignore Duplicates'' that allows you to ...