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Dhwanit Shah

I've used 1Password in my teams before. It could end up getting expensive depending on the size of your team, but it's a great way to share sensitive information like credentials and financial information within the team, while also ensuring the individual members of the team are following best practices with their own credentials as well.

And as an added bonus, it's made in Canada (the Canadian member of my team that got us to use it added this in the "pro" column when making the case for it)

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kimdontdoit

Thanks for your answer Shah 💯
Couldn't live without my personal/work password managers. Although I wonder how would you share a password outside of the team?

I made the switch from Lastpass to Bitwarden about a year ago and would definitely recommend it for budget reasons, but I can't say anything about how it compares to 1Password (although I'm from Canada too)

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Dhwanit Shah

You can create shared vaults with 1password, which is a great someone for teams. At my last role, we used this to maintain access to our company social.media accounts, for example, with the IT team rotating the passwords often and the marketing teams just getting the update from the shared vault when needed. It also made 2 step authentication a breeze since we weren't having to chase down whose phone got the code. In the newer version now you can also share individual entries with people, restricting them so they are only available for x days, or can it be opened x times.

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HiJoe

I look at it like this…a couple bucks a month per user is probably cheaper than dealing with a server breach, or unwanted access.

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kimdontdoit • Edited

Oh definitely, with so many free options available too people have no excuse to use 123 weak passwords lol