Passwords remain one of the most persistent sources of risk in the modern enterprise. Even as organizations adopt passwordless technologies, dozens of applications and resources still depend on credentials. Security teams need to improve password hygiene without creating friction that drives users toward risky workarounds.
We’re pleased to share that Palo Alto Networks was featured in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Password Management.
Idira®Workforce Password Management, or WPM, helps organizations secure and manage workforce credentials across cloud and on-premises environments. Our approach to workforce password management is straightforward: protect the credentials employees use today while building a path toward stronger passwordless authentication.
Why Workforce Password Management Matters
We know that without centralized controls, employees may reuse passwords, store credentials insecurely, share passwords through inappropriate channels, or continue using compromised credentials without realizing it.
Enterprise password management is about more than giving employees a secure place to store passwords. Security leaders need the visibility and controls to identify credential risk at scale and make secure behavior easier for users.
We believe organizations shouldn’t have to replace identity and security tools that already work simply to strengthen password security. WPM helps address immediate needs such as credential vaulting, password hygiene, and session visibility while fitting into a broader identity security strategy that builds toward passwordless authentication.
Key Workforce Password Management Capabilities
Palo Alto Networks WPM helps organizations strengthen password security through five key capabilities:
Enterprise Credential Vaulting & Step-Up Access Control. WPM provides secure vault-based credential storage in the cloud or on-premises, along with capabilities such as step-up authentication, password obfuscation, session recording, and data leak protections for high-risk applications. These controls help organizations protect sensitive credentials while giving administrators greater control over how those credentials are accessed and used.
Continuous Password Hygiene & Dark Web Risk Monitoring. WPM includes password hygiene capabilities and dark web monitoring to help identify weak, aged, or compromised credentials and continuously improve their credential security posture.
Streamlined UX: Auto-Fill, Self-Service, and Browser Extensions. Security controls are only effective when employees use them. WPM provides intuitive dashboards, streamlined navigation, auto-capture and autofill capabilities, accessibility features, and self-service password reset with configurable policies. By making the secure path the easy path, organizations can improve adoption while reducing password-related friction.
Visibility and Audit-Ready Reporting. Security teams need more than a vault. WPM provides real-time risk insights, visual alerts, and administrative oversight to help security teams understand how credentials are being used, where risk exists, and support audit and compliance requirements.
Integrating Password Management Across the Identity Ecosystem. WPM is designed to work as part of a broader identity security strategy. It connects password management with Idira Identity and Access Management (which includes single sign-on and multifactor authentication), Idira Privileged Access Management, Prisma Browser, and Idira Secure Web Sessions.
These integrations extend password management into broader enterprise workflows through an API-first approach.
The acquisition of CyberArk established identity security as a core pillar of Palo Alto Networks' platformization strategy, extending our ability to secure human, machine, and agentic identities.
From Enterprise Password Management to a Passwordless Architecture
Passwordless authentication is an important step toward stronger, more seamless identity security. But for most organizations, getting there will be a journey. Many applications and workflows still rely on passwords, and modernization will happen in phases.
WPM provides a practical bridge between today’s password-based reality and a passwordless future. Organizations can secure the credentials they use now while progressively adopting stronger authentication such as passkeys and biometrics where it makes sense.
The goal is to reduce credential risk today while steadily reducing reliance on passwords.
Read the GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Password Management to learn more about the market and how Palo Alto Networks was evaluated in the report.
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FAQs
What is Workforce Password Management?
Idira Workforce Password Management is an enterprise password manager for employees. It securely stores, generates, and fills passwords for business applications while giving IT centralized control over password policies, access, and credential risk. Unlike PAM, which traditionally protects administrator and other highly privileged accounts, WPM protects the everyday application passwords used across the workforce.
How does workforce password management support a passwordless strategy?
Enterprise password management acts as a bridge to passwordless access by securing legacy, non-SSO applications today while integrating with SSO, MFA, passkeys, and biometrics for modern applications.
What are the top capabilities of Workforce Password Management?
Workforce Password Management combines centralized credential vaulting, password generation and rotation, breach monitoring, controlled sharing, easy sign-in and enterprise-wide visibility.
Is Palo Alto Networks featured in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Password Management?
Yes. GigaOm included Palo Alto Networks in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Password Management.