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Secure password sharing for business: How to share credentials with your team

Proton Blog10 min read

Stop sending passwords over Slack and email. Learn how to share business passwords with employees, contractors, and clients using encrypted vaults.

Secure password sharing is storing shared credentials in an end-to-end encrypted password manager and granting scoped access, rather than sending them through chat, email or spreadsheets. Access can then be limited, reviewed, logged, and removed the moment someone no longer needs it. If you want to adopt secure password sharing within your business, the first step is accepting that credential access spreads over time. Your business needs to build a better strategy: we’ll explain how. Why are passwords shared at work? Even when having individual logins is the better option, daily operations often depend on accounts that several people need to use. Client portals, vendor dashboards, shared inboxes, and service accounts can all fall prey to the same access problem. The work is shared, but the credential that unlocks it was designed for one person to use. When there’s no business-approved way to handle credential access, passwords are shared in the least secure ways. They move through chats, emails, browser storage, spreadsheets, shared documents, or personal notes. Sending a password feels harmless, but every new copy makes the credential harder to track, rotate, and remove. Good credential management depends on memory, trust, and cleanup across channels that were not…

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