Password Manager


LastPass Enterprise is a UW CISO approved browser-based password management tool. Managed Workstation has published additional support documentation for their customers which you may find useful.

What is it?

LastPass Enterprise enables you to improve your password management practices, by allowing you to create secure passwords without requiring your team to remember long and complex passwords. As password cracking techniques become more sophisticated, implementing a password manager is an easy and robust method of keeping your sensitive data secure. Using this service can improve your password management practices by:

Current eligibility and cost

Note: This software is intended to have a small cost-recovery charge in the future, in the range of $1.50-2/month/user, but that cost very much depends on adoption numbers and could be quite a bit less. UW-IT is not yet prepared to charge eligible users, so use for eligible users at this time comes at no charge.

Adopting LastPass Enterprise

If you would like to try it out first before requesting an enterprise account, LastPass offers separate, free, accounts for personal use that can be linked to your enterprise account. Managed Workstation Customers are able to enroll using the steps here. (MWS customers are anyone who is a member of an eligibility group as designated by their MWS customer account contact). Non-MWS customers can also request accounts, though their team will first need to have an eligibility group created. More information on that process can be found here. After initially requesting an account, a user will get an email (uwnetid@uw.edu) with a time-limited invitation to create their LastPass account, so they should know to expect the email. Using that invitation, you will create a LastPass Enterprise account password; there is no single-sign-on for LastPass Enterprise. To complete account setup:

LastPass Enterprise Deprovisioning

Removing access to a LastPass Enterprise account when someone leaves the UW is an important step to restrict access to only those who should have access. When you remove users from the eligibility group you provided when adopting, their UW LastPass account will be disabled, then deleted a month or so later. So when you remove users from your group be prepared for possible loss of password data if that info is only accessible to that user. Leveraging the LastPass Sharing features with UW Groups are a good mitigation for possibly unexpected data loss due to deprovisioning.

Using LastPass and Support

Here are some key tips on using LastPass Enterprise:

Future

This technology will have additional user population adoption and expansion. Additional expansion and delivery of a cost-recovery mechanism is dependent on prioritization of a project. Support may broaden slightly as expansion happens.