Most people have dozens of work accounts and a handful of passwords they cycle through. When any one of those sites is breached, attackers try the same email and password everywhere else. It’s called credential stuffing, and it works because reuse is so common.
What a password manager does
- Creates a unique, strong password for every account
- Fills logins automatically, so no one has to remember or type them
- Warns about weak, reused, or breached passwords
- Shares logins securely for accounts a team uses together
Business vs. personal
A business password manager gives your company control. Shared vaults let departments access the logins they need, access is removed when someone leaves, and the company (not an individual) keeps ownership of critical accounts like vendor portals and banking.
Protect the vault: require a long master passphrase and multi-factor authentication on the password manager itself.
Rolling it out
- Start with shared accounts that currently live in spreadsheets or sticky notes.
- Show people how auto-fill works. Convenience is the selling point.
- Have each person update their most important passwords first: email, banking, and anything with customer data.
Where sites support passkeys, a password manager can store those too, moving your team toward logins that can’t be phished at all.