New Year, New Security Resolutions: Get Your Employees Using LastPass Now

In 2021, create an organizational resolution to increase security through LastPass adoption. As you know, each employee plays a role in your organization’s security landscape and influences the security posture of the company. LastPass adoption is critical to a secure, remote work environment and will aid with improving password hygiene, identifying insecure credentials, and sharing credentials securely.

Here’s a few tips on how to increase your organization’s LastPass adoption.

Zero in on current pains

When you’re getting started, think about current roadblocks in your day. Are new employees constantly asking for the WiFi password? Create a Secure Note with the details and share it with everyone in the office. In order to access the password, the user will need to use their LastPass account. You can take it a step further and create a Shared Folder for all the need-to-know office information. This will allow you to seamlessly update entries in the future and everyone will continue to have access to the information they need, should any passwords or details change.

Get even more sharing tips here.

Make LastPass easily accessible

Use the Admin Console to add LastPass to the browser extension for your employees. This removes potential friction by automatically allowing employees to see the LastPass extension in their browsers without needing to act or navigate to the website.

In addition, LastPass provides federated login with Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Okta. Federated Login provides a simplified experience for employees as they no longer need to use a unique master password to access LastPass.

Make it a celebration

Once you find your power users, reward them! Hold contests as you’re rolling out LastPass and give prizes to those with the best security scores or most entries in their vault. Solicit specific feedback from your power users as well to find more examples to share with the rest of the company about how to incorporate LastPass into their daily routines.

Include in corporate policies

To ensure that the importance of password security is communicated to your employees, add LastPass to your corporate security policy. This sets expectations that employees should be using strong access habits as part of safe security practices.

Keep it going

A successful rollout is an ongoing effort, not a one-time event. As much as we wish, we’re not going to reach our fitness goals by going to the gym once and calling it a day. Similarly, just sending out welcome invitations to your organization and hoping for the best isn’t going to set you up for long-term success. Create awareness for your rollout with an existing tech day or security expo or simply sending reminder emails to users who haven’t activated their accounts after a certain amount of time.

Be sure to check out our entire Admin Toolkit which includes an Awareness section with posters, email templates, videos for end users and more.