Privileged accounts exist in all areas of business IT and if compromised they can provide an external attacker or dishonest insider access to sensitive data.

Account management company Thycotic wants to help businesses protect themselves and so is giving away a no-cost version of its Secret Server package to guard against attacks that target privileged accounts.

Secret Server Free will provide customers with a package valued at $5,000, at no-cost, to protect their privileged account credentials. By the end of the year, the company plans to protect more than 20,000 global organizations against cyber-attacks giving away a total of total $100 million worth of free privileged account security software.

"At Thycotic, we are on a global mission to help IT teams worldwide protect their organizations from hackers and have already done so for more than 3,500 organizations", says James Legg, CEO of Thycotic. "With the introduction of Secret Server Free, we will continue towards accomplishing this undertaking by making it easier, and more affordable, for IT teams to prevent cyber-attacks leveraging our industry-leading PAM security software at no cost to them".

Features of the free package include support for up to 100 users, protecting up to 1,000 privileged account passwords, integration with Active Directory, Remote Desktop tunneling with PuTTY, and password storage using military-grade encryption.

You can find out more and sign up for a copy of Secret Server Free on the Thycotic website.

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