Name: TechIDManager
Price: 200 USD
Author: Ruffian Software

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Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Text Editors

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Desktop Publishing

Diagramming

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Meeting Management

Operational Analytics

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Blockchain Payments

Cryptocurrency Mining

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employer of Record (EOR)

HR Management

Payroll

Stock Option Plan Administration

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Archiving

Cloud Storage

Continuous Delivery

Data Fabric

Endpoint Encryption

Enterprise Backup

File Sync and Share

Firewall

Fraud Detection

IT Service Management (ITSM)

Infrastructure Capacity Planning

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Network Operating Systems

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Network Virtualization

Phishing Detection and Response

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Voice Recognition

Web Application Firewalls

Web Scraping

Zero Trust Security Solutions

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

Advertising Agency

All-in-One Marketing

Business Card Scanning

Content Management

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Email Marketing

Graphics

Location Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Translation

Web Analytics

Marketing

Professional Services Automation

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proposal

Sales

Operational Technology (OT) Security

Security

Auto Repair

Camp Management

HIPAA Compliance

Homeowner's Association (HOA) Management

Legal Research

Municipal

Trucking Software

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TechIDManager, developed by Ruffian Software Inc., is a privileged account management (PAM) tool specifically designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). This software automates the creation and management of unique accounts for technicians across multiple client domains, Azure tenants, and local machines. According to the vendor, TechIDManager aims to enhance security, ensure compliance with cybersecurity frameworks, and streamline the management of privileged accounts for MSPs of all sizes. It is intended for use by Managed Service Providers, IT technicians, cybersecurity professionals, IT consultants, and healthcare IT.

## Key Features

**Just-In-Time Accounts**: TechIDManager offers Just-In-Time (JIT) accounts as a feature in version 4.0. These accounts are enabled, rights are added, and a new password is set just in time for the technician to use it when needed. Each JIT account is unique to the technician and exists with no standing access.

**TechIDManager LAPS agents**: TechIDManager LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) agents are designed specifically for MSPs. According to the vendor, they provide a significant improvement over Microsoft LAPS, allowing technicians to see the credentials for a local machine with a single "Administrator" account. TechIDManager LAPS supports any existing local or domain-based account.

**Automatic Account Creation and Management**: TechIDManager automates the creation and management of unique accounts for technicians across multiple client domains, Azure tenants, and local machines. It eliminates the need for manual account creation and management, saving time and effort for MSPs. Accounts are automatically created with appropriate rights and permissions, and password rotation and account disabling are handled automatically.

**Compliance with Cybersecurity Frameworks**: TechIDManager helps MSPs satisfy compliance requirements for various cybersecurity frameworks, including HIPAA, PCI, CIS, and more. It provides unique accounts for every technician, ensuring accountability and traceability. According to the vendor, TechIDManager enhances security and helps meet compliance objectives by enforcing the principle of least privilege.

**Automation and Effortless Account Management**: TechIDManager offers automation capabilities, streamlining the process of creating, disabling, managing rights, and rotating passwords across all unrelated client domains. The Management Console provides a single point of control for account management, facilitating communication between agents and the TechClient. According to the vendor, TechIDManager reduces manual effort and ensures consistency in privileged account management.

**Security and Password Rotation**: TechIDManager eliminates password sharing by providing unique accounts for each technician. Automatic password rotation is implemented everywhere, enhancing security and reducing the risk of unauthorized access. Passwords are rotated every 24 hours, providing an additional layer of protection. According to the vendor, TechIDManager enforces password complexity and change requirements, helping MSPs meet security best practices.

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Identity Management (IdM) is essentially about creating, maintaining, and retiring individual enterprise accounts for IT security. Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems encompass this but also provide a framework that goes beyond digital identities to providing access to users in various roles in a relatively automated fashion for cost and efficiency, while yet presenting minimal risk to sensitive data or equipment, simultaneously creating an audit trail for lawful compliance. Depending on the implementation needed by the enterprise (i.e. who is logging in and to what largely determines this) these concerns can be somewhat, highly, or totally overlapping areas.

Making comparisons across suites of software and their vendors can be difficult as this apparently singular body of needs is  serviced by vendors in this area in a highly modular fashion who bridge gaps with strategic or technical partnerships and integrations.  But here "Identity Management" Software is defined as software which handles all or some of the tasks related to all of the above, which may be divided into:

-- Identity governance or provisioning (basically role management with workflow controls).

-- Access (authorization or restriction of access to certain information to certain persons across locations and systems).

 ...and the various methods of enabling rapid yet secure access like:

-- Single sign-on (SSO, describes the ability to login to the system once and only once, gaining access to all systems without need for logging in again via help from a server).

-- Multi-factor authentication (using multiple, independent components to gain access, a simple step to increase security, though at a cost of efficiency for each additional step).

-- Password management and self-help for password users.

-- Identity federation, related to SSO, access spanning system boundaries (e.g. cloud access).

-- Directory / User Repository Management for tracking of users with access, and

-- Security Analytics for auditing and compliance...

...and more. IAM software is most usually sold in a modular, configurable pieces-sold-separately fashion, where each module handles some but not all of these needs. Some of the strongest vendors in this area offer high specialization and strategic partnerships with other specializers while other established vendors, via both acquisitions and development, manage to cobble together comprehensive portfolios and subsume all the various needs under one grand suite of comprehensive IAM capabilities. Enterprises have gone both ways.


A later arriving area of identity management software that greatly up-prioritizes speed and ease of access over security is called by the vendors who specialize in it Customer Identity Management, which provides simple customer registration most often via Social Sign-On capability. This allows a user to instantaneously set up an account with a service provider merely by logging in via their preferred social network account; voila, the customer has (safe, limited) access, and the enterprise gains useful information about the potential customer in less than five seconds. While traditional Identity Management Systems offer the capability to do this, smaller vendors who specialize in customer access, with its high-efficiency / low-security demands, sometimes bundle the feature with other common marketing capabilities to leverage the instantly acquired customer data (e.g. email marketing, segmentation, landing pages, etc.), thus creating a (growing) niche of customer-facing identity management systems in the process.

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Identity management software manages information about the identity of software users and controls access to corporate resources

ID-Management Access Control

Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role

ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)

The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again

Multi-Factor Authentication

Using multiple, independent components to gain access

Password Management

Self-help capabilities the help users recover forgotten passwords, etc.

Account Provisioning and De-provisioning

Capabilities for creating user accounts  based on roles, group memberships and business processes

ID Management Workflow Automation

Automated sequence of tasks to simplify processes

ID Risk Management

Identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks with procedures to minimize, impacts of unplanned consequences

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