Item: LastPass for Business
Rating: 9
Author: Michael Haberkern

Overall Satisfaction with LastPass

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

LastPass is used in our network as a credential manager in lieu of an Excel spreadsheet. They have freeware or you can pay for an enterprise or business account.

Pros and Cons

Pros

LastPass is an excellent credential manager and is keeping up with the times.
It integrates very well with the Chrome browser as an add-on. I have only had one issue with it, but I am not convinced it isn’t an actual issue with the GUI of the application and not LastPass.
Allows you to integrate your business account with your personal account without having to log in and out to view each one.

Cons

I have noticed very few times that LastPass will try to store a username\password for an application or WWW that has already been saved and cached in the system. This can be frustrating.
If the above happens, you will have many log-ins for the same application which can be frustrating for someone with OCD.

Return on Investment

LastPass gave us the ability to get rid of our Excel password spreadsheet and move to this century.
Allows you to give parent-child or special permissions. This was helpful to separate help desk and infrastructure passwords.

Alternatives Considered

LastPass was tried side-by-side with KeePass and was chosen as the winner for the IT Team. We have used it at work, for personal use and even encouraged it for business execs.

I have not had an issue with this aspect thus far. You are able to carve out permissions to what group and can also carry a parent-child type buildout where one or a group can keep overall control and delegate as needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

I use it daily for work and personal. It has an iOS app and I have found very few issues with the product, both freeware and paid enterprise version. I am not convinced the problems I had were actually with the product. I did not take the time to find the root cause. We actually moved to this and away from KeePass.

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