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Bitwarden security fundamentals and multifactor encryption

Securing your vaults is paramount at Bitwarden. Learn how multiple layers of security and encryption keep your vault protected in the cloud and on your device.

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Pepper for your password

For those vault items that need serious care, you might opt to go the peppering route to give them an added layer of security. Peppering is a great way to prevent your passwords from winding up in the wrong hands and being used against you.

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Security Tips▪Personal▪Password Manager

Filling in digit-specific passwords

Some institutions require users to type only certain characters from their password. Fortunately, Bitwarden has a feature that allows you to easily fill in digit-specific passwords.

Bitwarden Design: Updating Admin Views in the Web Vault

In an upcoming release, Bitwarden built a series of updates to improve usability for organization administrators and owners. 

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Personal▪Password Manager

How to create custom fields for Bitwarden vault entries

Most often, you'll find the default options for Bitwarden vault entries to be plenty. However, you may run into the case where you need something out of the ordinary. Here's how to add a custom field that can be used to auto-populate fields in a web form.

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Deployment▪Business▪Password Manager

How to foster user adoption for your new company password manager

Gaining employee buy-in is essential for a new company password management solution to be successful. Explore strategies to drive user adoption so all employees can enjoy the benefits of improved security and ease of use.

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Security Tips▪Business▪Personal▪Password Manager

Bitwarden open source security explained

Answers to three common questions about how being open source strengthens Bitwarden security, transparency, and privacy.

Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev

Passwordless▪Developers▪Passkeys

Bitwarden extends passwordless leadership with acquisition

Bitwarden has acquired European-based startup Passwordless.dev, a significant milestone in rounding out the Bitwarden commitment to offering open source, scalable, and secure passwordless solutions to every business and end user. 

Bitwarden on Apple Watch

Bitwarden comes to Apple Watch! Now you can access the generated TOTP (time based one time password) codes for your vault items to quickly log in to sites supporting that method for two-factor authentication.

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Expanding the Bitwarden experience from one to many at work

Bitwarden is perfectly at home with teams of all sizes as well as business and enterprise organizational needs. But given there are multiple types of plans you choose from, what's the difference, and which plan is best suited for your needs?

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Why open source delivers transparency and security for enterprises

Discover how open source solutions deliver strong security through code transparency, external audits, and community contributions.

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Industry Leaders Security Rankings: Music Streaming Services

How end-user friendly and robust are the top music streaming services when it comes to security? Find out in this report.

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Security Tips▪Personal▪Password Manager

7 Tips to Protect Your Bitwarden Account

Practical advice to keep your Bitwarden account safe.

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Third Annual Open Source Security Summit Recap

The Open Source Security Summit provides a space for companies and individuals to discuss how utilizing open source technologies leads to stronger security and trust through transparency.

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Security Tips▪Personal▪Password Manager

The Bitwarden Holiday Giving List

Give to others while helping them stay safe and protected, start with the Bitwarden basic free account across unlimited logins and unlimited devices!

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6 Cybersecurity guidelines when working with 3rd-party agencies and freelancers

In a recent webcast with Bitwarden, Bjoern Sjut, security expert and founder of Finc3 Marketing Group, detailed 6 cybersecurity guidelines he recommends when working with 3rd-party agencies and freelancers.

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Deployment▪Password Manager

New deployment option for self-hosted Bitwarden

The Bitwarden lite self-hosted deployment joins the existing standard deployment option as a lightweight alternative for those who choose to deploy their password management solution on their own private network.

The first external password manager built into DuckDuckGo for Mac

DuckDuckGo’s Mac browsing app now includes a seamless Bitwarden password management option.

Bitwarden Earns Gold Medal in 2022 Password Management Data Quadrant Report

For the second consecutive year, Bitwarden has been recognized as a gold medalist and leader in the Password Management Data Quadrant report from SoftwareReviews, a division of IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group.

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What are Organizations in Bitwarden and why should you use them?

An organization can be a team, a business, a family, or any set of users that require the sharing of data. With the help of Organizations, you can relate users and vault items together for the sharing of logins, notes, cards, and identities. 

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Security Tips▪Developers▪Secrets Manager

Developers Weigh in on Password Best Practices

"What do you know about password security that you'd like others to know as well?” That was the question posed to the developers in the Bitwarden community. Check out how they responded in this article.

Industry Leaders Security Rankings: Health and Fitness Apps

How end-user friendly and robust are the top health and fitness apps when it comes to security? Find out in this report.

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How to use the Data Breach report in Bitwarden

Bitwarden has a handy tool to help keep you up to date with data breaches. Data Breach report is available for individual vaults across all plans, including free.

How to back up and encrypt your Bitwarden vault from the command line

One thing you should regularly do is back up your vault. Learn how to do this from the command line by crafting a handy bash script to simplify the process.

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2023 Bitwarden Password Decisions Survey

The survey polled 800 IT decision makers across a range of industries and shows that passwordless technology is here to stay, with businesses enthusiastic about its perceived security benefits and improved user experience.

Bitwarden Named Password Manager Leader in G2 Enterprise Grid Report

Bitwarden was recently named a Leader and received the highest Satisfaction score within the 2022 Enterprise Grid Report for Password Manager by G2.

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Industry Leaders Security Rankings: Personal Email Services Edition

How end-user friendly and robust are the top personal email services when it comes to security? Find out in this report.

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New Backup Option Allows for Flexible Encrypted Vault Exports

Users now have the option of using a password of their choosing for backup encryption, giving users more flexibility when backing up their vault.

What is Bitwarden autofill and how do you use it?

Using a password manager doesn't have to be such a challenge. In fact, Bitwarden includes an autofill feature in both the web browser extension and the mobile app that can help make your life considerably easier.

Secure Sharing▪Security Tips▪Business▪Personal▪Password Manager

What is the right way to share passwords?

Be sure you have end-to-end encryption and a scalable approach.