Shared marketing & social logins without Excel or chat screenshots
Marketing teams rotate agencies, interns change, and social platforms rarely get SAML in SMBs. The result is passwords in Slack and screenshots in email. You can fix this without a six-month “enterprise vault” programme if you focus on rotation, visibility, and offboarding.
Minimum viable policy
- One owner per shared vault folder; no “everyone in the company” shares
- Quarterly rotation for high-risk accounts
- Disable SMS 2FA where app-based or hardware tokens are available
Why a vault beats a spreadsheet
Versioned access, audit trails, and mobile clients beat rows copied into tickets. You still need culture: reward reporting over blame when someone pastes a secret wrong.
Pick a tool that matches effort
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