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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once a Secret Type is wired up to its Password Type (Windows Account, AD Account, SQL Server Login or new in 3.2 - Unix Account), then turn on Remote Password Changing in Administration and create a secret.  I have created a new secret for a SQL Server login and set it to be Autochanged. The ''Expire Now'' button appears and clicking it ...

This will be the first year that Thycotic has a vendor booth at Microsoft TechEd.  This is an exciting milestone for the company and we are busy with preparations for the conference.  There will be four of us from the team going - the flights and hotels are booked.  Dan Parker and I will be staffing the booth during regular ...

We have been working over the last week on the new Secret Type Gallery.  It is actually going to be a part of thycotic.com and will be a place for Secret Server users to share their own custom Secret Types with other users.  The gallery will be linked to from within the new Secret Type Designer in Secret Server 2.0. What does this mean ...