

We can do this for you if you let our customer success team know by logging a ticket here. Move your apps to SAML authentication method.This is a vulnerability in browser password management technology and all password managers and authentication gateways are susceptible to it. If a password management tool like Lastpass also has it’s browser extension installed, depending on the configuration it may be able to capture the password that Practice Protect pastes. In this scenario, Practice Protect pastes the password into the webpage via the browser extension. The second method of protecting an app is called “password capture” which means a human manually resetting passwords to something non-memorable and entering that password into the back end of Practice Protect.

To learn a bit more about SAML and it’s relevance to accountants visit this article. This is the most secure way of protecting and consolidating access to applications and most accounting apps either have or are busy building SAML integration. The first and most secure is referred to as SAML which can be described as a way of integrating an application with Practice Protect at the technical level to create a single sign-on environment. There are two different methods that access can be consolidated by an authentication gateway tool like Practice Protect.
