How Bitwarden Access Intelligence brings value to your business

Access Intelligence, available now with Bitwarden enterprise plans, offers enhanced security insights into key business applications and helps improve organization-wide credential security. 

With Access Intelligence, go beyond standard password management to help your organization proactively target key gaps in credential security, driving real business value like ROI, revenue, and security culture.

Recent research shows that the biggest challenge when implementing credential security best practices across an organization is employee motivation, according to 68% of IT admins. This is no surprise and validates something IT teams have known for decades. Employees typically won’t change their habits without step-by-step directions, direct support, and clear benefits.

In addition to employee reluctance to follow security best practices, IT and security teams are overwhelmed by the sheer number of alerts they receive every day. According to IDC, security teams leave about 30% of security alerts uninvestigated due to alert fatigue. At-risk passwords are especially susceptible to slow resolution, taking an average of 9 days to update after discovery.

This slow resolution and lack of motivation from employees to fix the risks is especially dangerous considering 88% of web application breaches come from weak, reused, or exposed passwords according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

Bitwarden Access Intelligence helps organizations reduce credential risks throughout the organization while decreasing IT workload and empowering end users to take an active role in company security. 

With Access Intelligence, IT teams can identify and prioritize business-critical vulnerabilities in the organization, helping combat alert fatigue by focusing on what is most important. These business-critical vulnerabilities are uncovered via a unique app-centric view of risks, where weak, reused, or exposed passwords are listed alongside their associated applications. IT admins can then select which applications, the information they contain, and access they grant, are critical for the company's security. Critical applications often include accounting software, CRMs, collaboration tools, email, payroll, and ERP systems. Once a critical application and its associated at-risk passwords are identified, Bitwarden helps IT send automated alerts to employees and guides them to make secure password changes, improving employee adoption. 

See how the Access Intelligence process works below: 

Step 1: Identify shadow IT and review credential risks

Step 2: Prioritize risks by critical applications 

Step 3: Trigger automated risk alerts to end users

Step 4: Guide employees to update at-risk passwords

Step 5: Track credential security progress

In addition to the immediate outcome of reducing credential risks and vulnerabilities, Bitwarden Access Intelligence helps drive real business impact, enabling your organization to thrive and meet strategic goals.

IBM reports that data breach costs for the average U.S. company have reached $9.36M, including the cost of unavailable systems, ransom, legal representation, and brand reputation. Save money by actively avoiding the costly data breaches that often come with weak credential security. 

Show executives the return on password management investment with reports demonstrating measurable improvements to credential security and reduced vulnerabilities. Bitwarden Access Intelligence provides a detailed view on the progress your employees have made on at-risk passwords with the percentage and count of security tasks completed. With each record leak costing an average of $169 according to IBM, simple math can help our company arrive at ROI.

Empower employees to take an active role in company security and encourage repeatable best practices. Bitwarden alerts end users to only the most important at-risk logins via email, in-product, and when navigating to an impacted site. Bitwarden then guides these users to the exact change password form required for that website and suggests a new generated password inline with company guidelines. This approach enables IT to be “hands-off” during the remediation process and teaches even non-technical employees how to make necessary changes.

Showcase security improvements and business value to leadership and adjacent teams. Access Intelligence helps you quantify IT and security impact on the business, which comes in handy during promotion considerations and salary raises. 

Begin your credential security journey with Bitwarden Access Intelligence. Start a free business trial today or contact sales to get started!