:: Home : FAQs : FAQs - Password Management

PASSWORD MANAGEMENT

Q. What is Password Management?

A. Proginet’s SecurPass password management software helps corporate security administrators, help desk staff and end users manage the complexities of multiple passwords in multi-platform environments. Password management accomplishes this by preventing user down-time due to lost or forgotten passwords. Password management also frees help desk and security administrators from resetting lost or forgotten passwords.

Proginet’s SecurPass was developed specifically for multi-platform password management and is designed to eliminate security problems stemming from poor password management. SecurPass is the premiere password management software today.

Q. What is Password Synchronization (aka sync, synch, synchronisation)?

A. Password synchronization synchronizes passwords and password changes between different information security systems such as RACF, ACF2, CA-Top Secret, and Microsoft Windows NT security, and different computing environments such as IBM OS/390, Microsoft Windows NT domains, UNIX, and Novell NetWare, enabling them to work as one.

Q. What does ‘single sign-on’ mean?

A. Single password sign-on support enables end-users to access the mainframe repeatedly with only a single password sign-on at initial logon. Single sign-on thereby eliminates the need to memorize multiple passwords and cuts the spiralling incidence of forgotten passwords.

Proginet’s SecurPass single sign-on support facilitates 3270 and 5250 automated logon using Microsoft SNA Server.

Q. What is SSO?

A. SecurPass’ password synchronization capability provides the key benefit promised by SSO (Single Sign On) ¬ the elimination of too many passwords across the enterprise. However, SecurPass may be implemented in a fraction of the time compared to SSO, without tying up precious internal resources, and at a fraction of the cost. SSO remains more myth than reality, because of the inherent administrative burden, implementation difficulties and drain on IT resources of SSO.

Q. What does ‘single password’ mean?

A. Proginet’s SecurPass single password sign-on support enables end-users to access the mainframe repeatedly with only a single password sign-on at initial logon. Single password logon to the mainframe eliminates the need to memorize multiple passwords and cuts the spiralling incidence of forgotten passwords.

Q. What about forgotten passwords?

A. Forgotten passwords are a thing of the past with Proginet SecurPass. SecurPass eliminates the need for users to memorize multiple passwords in order to access the many systems they need. SecurPass thereby dramatically cuts the high incidence of forgotten passwords and the drain on help desk staff to reset forgotten passwords.

Thus, SecurPass remains the premiere password management software for forgotten passwords.

Q. What is meant by ‘single logon’?

A. Proginet SecurPass single logon support enables end-users to access the mainframe repeatedly with only a single logon at the initial sign-on time. Single logon thereby cuts the spiralling incidence of forgotten passwords.

Q. What is Password Reset?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset allows users who forgot their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset integrates with SecurPass to synchronize the password reset on all enterprise systems.

Q. How can we eliminate Password Help Desk Calls?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset cuts down on password help desk calls by allowing users who forgot their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset helps to eliminate password help desk calls by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. How Can Users Reset Their Own Passwords?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset provides a solution whereby users reset their own passwords. Proginet SecurPass:Reset allows users who forget their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset goes beyond simply helping users reset their own passwords by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. What is Password Reset Administration?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset supports password reset administration by allowing users who forget their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset further eases password reset administration by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. What is a Password Reset Kiosk?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset provides a web-based password reset kiosk function to allow users who forget their password to easily change or reset their password. The SecurPass:Reset password reset kiosk further eases password administration by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. What is Password Reset User Administration?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset supports password reset user administration by allowing users who forget their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset further eases password reset user administration by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. What is Self Help Password Reset?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset provides self help password reset to allow users who forget their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based self-help password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset web-based self help password reset further eases password administration by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. What is Self Service Password Reset?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset is a self-service password reset application that allows users who forgot their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based self-service password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset integrates with SecurPass to synchronize the password reset on all enterprise systems.

Q. Is There a Web Based Password Reset?

A. Proginet SecurPass:Reset provides web-based password reset to allow users who forget their password to easily change or reset their password using a web-based password reset kiosk. SecurPass:Reset web-based password reset further eases password administration by integrating with SecurPass to synchronize password resets on all enterprise systems.

Q. What is GINA Overlay?

A. Proginet’s SecurPass Reset GINA Overlay is a component of the SecurPass Reset password reset software from Proginet Corporation. The purpose with GINA Overlay (Basic Authentication logon screen) is to allow a user to reset their password from the logon screen GINA Overlay (CTRL+ALT.+DEL.) without the needing to have access to a web browser.