Enterprise Admin

This resource hub provides IT and security leaders with a proven path to password security success, offering a curated set of guides, checklists, resources, and milestones.

This playbook provides IT administrators with a flexible roadmap for onboarding users to Bitwarden Password Manager across five key phases. While the phases are presented in sequence, they're not strictly linear. Many steps can happen in parallel based on your team's needs and timeline.

This comprehensive toolkit provides everything admins and IT teams need to build excitement, communicate password security benefits, and turn your end users into security champions. Whether you're rolling out to a small team or enterprise-wide deployment, these resources support successful adoption at any scale.

This document should be used to provide instructions to your users for signing up for the organization. There are a number of different factors that will impact the exact steps your users will need to take. Use this decision tree to help pick the correct option for your organization's users.

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During sign-up, you'll create a master password for logging in to Bitwarden. It's important that your master password is:

• Memorable: Bitwarden employees and systems have no knowledge of, way to retrieve, or way to reset your master password. Do not forget your master password!

• Strong: A longer, more complex, and less common password is the best way to protect your account. Bitwarden provides a free password strength testing tool to test the strength of some memorable passwords you are considering.

Create your organization today by selecting the New organization button in the Bitwarden web app:

If your organization has already been created, ask the IT team at your company or your manager for information on how you're expected to join Bitwarden. Some organizations send email invitations to your work inbox, others will allow you to enroll by simply logging in with your single sign-on (SSO) account.

Once created, you'll land in the Admin Console, which is the central hub for all things sharing and organization administration. As the organization owner, you'll be able to see your Vault items and collections, to manage Members, run Reports, change Billing settings, and configure other organization Settings:

As an owner or admin, you might be responsible for managing access to vault items, like shared credentials, for your company or team. You can create directly from the web app and assign them to collections in order to share them with your team:

Speaking of collections, they're an important construct for grouping together related logins, notes, cards, and identities for secure sharing with your organization:

• Organizations can define access to collections, allowing users or groups to access only the items they need.

• Items stored in an organization's collections(s) do not belong to any individual user, but rather to the organization.

• Organization-owned items must be included in at least one collection.

As an owner or admin, you might be responsible for managing members of your team or your company more broadly. Members can be added to your organization:

• Directly from the Admin Console's Members page (learn more).

• By integrating Bitwarden with your IdP using SCIM (learn more).

• By integrating Bitwarden with your directory service using Directory Connector (learn more).

Members can assigned directly to collections in order to regulate what vault data they have access to, but so can groups. Groups relate together individual members and provide a scalable way to assign access to and permissions for specific collections:

Enterprise Bitwarden organizations provide powerful tools for improving your online security and integrating with existing workflows and tools. Some other things you might manage as an administrator of your organization include:

• Setting up policies to enforce security rules for users, for example mandating use of two-step login.

• Auditing what credentials organization members have access to.

• Integrating Bitwarden with your existing SSO workflow.

• Verifying your organization's domain for an seamless login experience.

• Setting up a system for, or approving, device trust requirements for members.

• Integrating Bitwarden with your existing SIEM tool, like Microsoft Sentinel.

Learn more about domain verification here.

Import your organization's passwords and data into Bitwarden for secure scalable sharing and autofill across your team. Choose an import method below based on your preferred Bitwarden client.

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