PasswordManager Pro

PMP Release 5.3

New Features / Enhancements

• Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Compliance Reports
• Option to force users to provide a reason to access passwords
• Provision to display a common message in PMP GUI to all PMP users in the GUI
• Option to hide passwords for password users and auditors when auto logon is enabled
• Support for configuring the database backup destination directory

Changes/Bug Fixes

• Domain Controller connectivity check is now done based on network connectivity
• All items in the drop-down lists in PMP have now been sorted alphabetically
• Issue related allowing users to choose their own encryption key for managing personal passwords, has been fixed

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PMP Release 5.2

New Features / Enhancements

Remote password synchronization for MySQL servers and HP ProCurve devices

• Support for changing the privileged passwords of remote MySQL servers and HP ProCurve devices from PMP GUI
  
• Periodic password synchronization check with remote resources now supported for MySQL servers and HP ProCurve devices

PMP in two editions

• PMP is now available in two editions - Standard and Premium. For more details, click here.

Reports in .xls format

• Support for generating all reports in .xls format

Changes / Bug Fixes

• If the PMP service is run with domain administrator privilege, passwords of all the local accounts in the computer (present in the domain) can be changed without the need for supplying the old password.
• While providing authentication details in Mail Server Settings, it is now possible to select an user account already present in PMP.
• Option to restrict users from providing their own encryption key for managing personal passwords (as part of general settings)
  

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PMP Release 5.1

New Features / Enhancements

Remote password synchronization for Cisco devices, MS SQL servers

• Support for changing the privileged passwords of remote Cisco devices and MS SQL servers from PMP GUI
  
• Periodic password synchronization check with remote resources now supported for Cisco devices and MS SQL server

Helper for automatic login to target systems

• Support for automatically launching remote systems, devices and applications from PMP GUI eliminating the need for copy, paste of passwords

SSL connection with external identity stores

• Support for establishing connection with external identity stores and authentication systems (AD/LDAP) over encrypted channel

Windows Scheduled Task Password Reset

• Support for resetting the passwords of Windows scheduled tasks along with Windows service account password reset
• Windows service account and scheduled task password reset for multiple domains
  

Alerts for audit events

• Provision for sending notifications on the occurrence of any audit event
• Option for customizing the audit trails view
• Option to export audit records as PDF, CSV
  

Activity, integrity and compliance Reports

• Informative reports on passwords, sharing details, password usage, policy compliance, expiry details, user activity, user access details etc
• Automatically examining remote resources for password integrity everyday and providing out of sync reports
  
• Option for scheduling report generation and sending reports by email
• Option to periodically purge audit trails
  

Performance Improvements

• Performance tuning for improvement in client responsiveness

Changes & Bug Fixes

• Option to configure the timeout for display of passwords in plain text
• Notes field changed to accommodate more text
• Audit trails now capture traces on resource group addition, resource import from AD, password reset reason entered by users, result of scheduled synchronization of data with AD and password policy change details
  
• All default and custom fields included in the table column chooser
• Option to search by 'Domain Name' in advanced search
• Option to search the details entered in 'Notes' field
  
• Periodic synchronization of data in PMP with AD now includes user and resource group changes and deletion
• Issue with regard to editing criteria-based resource groups fixed
• Issue related to providing manage share of resource group to a user group fixed
• Issue related to copying passwords having certain special characters to clipboard has been fixed
  
• Option to copy personal password account name to clipboard
• Option to automatically clear clipboard data periodically
• Earlier, Password Management API did not work if the resource names contained white spaces. This issue has been fixed

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PMP Release 5.0

New Features / Enhancements

High Availability Support

Uninterrupted access to passwords by deploying redundant PMP server and database instances

A-to-A, A-to-DB Password Management

Support for Application-to-Application/Database password retrieval and management by deploying 'Password Management APIs'

Windows Service Account Reset

Support for automatically resetting the passwords of associated windows service accounts when the domain account passwords are reset through PMP. Optionally the windows services could be restarted remotely to force the password change immediately

Password Reset Listener

Support for invoking a custom script or executable as a follow-up action to Password Reset action in PMP

Super Admin Support

Any administrator could be made as a 'Super Administrator' with privilege to view and manage all resources in PMP

Encryption Key Management

Provision for securely storing the unique encryption key (generated during PMP installation) somewhere outside PMP and instructing PMP to read it accordingly

Importing Users/Resources from Active Directory 

• Provision for importing user accounts associated with the computers imported as resources from AD domain
• Provision to import specific users, groups and OUs from AD

Resource Type Customization

In addition to adding custom fields it is now also possible to remove built-in fields for the various resource types

Notification for Passwords Out of Sync

When the passwords present in PMP differ with those in the actual resource, notifications (informing the out of sync) could be sent to desired recipients

Dashboard Reports

• The 'Home' page in PMP GUI depicts key aspects on passwords and users as dashboard reports
• Other Reports: Detailed and snapshot reports for resources and users

Changes & Bug Fixes

• Importing resources/ users from CSV has been simplified with the removal of format restrictions. Entries in your CSV file could be mapped to specific fields in PMP from GUI
• Earlier, to do remote password synchronization for Linux resource type, two accounts (one root account & another remote login account) were mandatory. Now, this has been made optional through a configuration in General Settings. Remote reset could be done with only one account
• The PMP client responsiveness for certain queries was slow. Performance tuning has now been done
• Clipboard utility for copying passwords in Firefox browser in Linux OS did not work. This has now been fixed
• The animation effect during the display of user accounts has been done away with
• Listing of user names at various places in PMP has been standardized with the display of <First Name> <Last Name> in order
• Display of various listings in PMP has been standardized with alphabetical sorting
• Earlier, there were issues in capturing user audit when working with AD and Single SignOn enabled. This has now been fixed
• The attribute 'DN' has been made configurable while integrating LDAP servers of type other than Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory and OpenLDAP
• Earlier, creating criteria-based resource groups based on 'account name' did not work. This has been fixed
• The issue in applying filters to search results spanning over more than one page in 'Home' tab, has been fixed

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PMP Release 4.8 (Build 4803)

New Features/Enhancements Support for securely storing different file types such as a license key, digital certificate, document, image etc. in PMP database Notifications on password policy violations Alert/Warning via email seven days ahead of password expiry Provision to import user groups from AD and keep PMP user database automatically in sync with Active Directory Provision to configure multiple domain controllers for redundancy in AD integration (user import and authentication) Provision to import computers and computer groups from AD and keep the PMP resource database automatically in sync with AD Support for importing users from Novell eDirectory interfaced through LDAP Delegating management of resources to other admins has been extended for criteria-based resource groups Resource-based quick view of passwords in 'Home' tab Bug Fixes Hitherto, 'search' in PMP was case-sensitive. It has now been made case-insensitive While logging into the PMP application, the users imported from Active Directory had to use the exact case of the account name as present in the AD. This has now been made case-insensitive PMP agent, when  installed in a folder not having enough privileges, threw errors. This has been fixed now. Issue related to LDAP authentication in OpenLDAP has been fixed Changes The fields "Maximum Password Age" and "Reuse of old passwords" Password Policy Creation have been made optional

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PMP Release 4.7 - Build 4701

Bug Fix When logged in as AD user, agent download was not happening. This issue has been fixed.

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PMP Release 4.7 (Build 4700)

New Features/Enhancements Real-time notifications for password events like password retrieval, modification, expiry and change in access permissions Automated remote password changing based on configured schedules and events like password expiry Provision for setting password expiry dates and generating alerts and reports on password expiry Provision for delegating management of resources to other admins (sharing management of resources) Policy to enforce not to use recently used passwords Remote password reset now supported for IBM AIX, HP UNIX, Solaris and Mac OS types through SSH / Telnet Provision for creating policy with Windows style password complexity allowing one of numerals or special characters in the passwords Support for forcefully logging out users from PMP application based on pre-defined inactivity period Password generator now available during resource creation Password reset actions done through the 'Forgot Password' option in the login screen are now audited Provision for generating audit trails in PDF format and also to email the same Bug Fixes Handled escaping of the apostrophes in inputs causing javascript errors (in user groups and resources) 'Forgot Password' features was accessible by typing the URL directly even if it was turned off. This is now fixed Limitation The search in the product is now case sensitive

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PMP Release 4.6 (Build 4600)

New Features/Enhancements Active Directory integration enhanced with provision for importing user groups Support for filtering and viewing passwords based on resource groups Provision for searching passwords and creating groups based on custom attributes Support for enabling windows single sign-on as part of AD integration. Users who have logged in to the windows system using their domain account need not separately sign in to PMP Default Reports: password details report and password policy compliance report Option to generate reports in PDF format and to email the same Support for viewing all attributes of a resource from 'Passwords View' Provision for 'Live Backup' through replicated database. Whenever a change happens in the 'Master Database', it will be instantaneously replicated to the 'Slave Database' New user role named 'Password Auditor' with privileges for viewing audit reports has been introduced Domain name included along with user names to keep AD users unique across domains Flexible general settings for switching on and off the following features on need basis: Displaying/hiding 'Forgot Password' link in login page Permitting/restricting personal password management for users Sending/restricting Email intimation of passwords upon PMP user creation Enforcing/exempting compliance to password policies Enabling/disabling of remote password synchronization Enabling/disabling local authentication along with AD/LDAP authentication Show/hide passwords in exported resources list Support for sending mails through public SMTP servers such as gmail and others Support for Windows Vista OS Custom attributes visible to all users who have access to the password During user creation, option for administrators to specify the password for the users Provision for bulk transfer of resources Revamped GUI with improved navigation Changes Earlier, while adding resources, the entry for IP address/DNS Name of the resource was mandatory. It has been made optional now Provision for entering first name, last name while adding users Hitherto, while entering the password for an account, users were not prompted to confirm the same. To ensure the correctness of password, confirmation dialog has been added now Latest version of MySQL (v 5.0.36) is now being bundled with PMP The professional evaluation version now allows adding up to 3 administrator users Bug Fixes MySQL 'Access Denied' error in linux during server startup has been fixed Earlier, users could delete the default resource group automatically created by PMP. This has been fixed