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LastPass offers password management via Internet2 NET+

LastPass helps students and staff remember their passwords and login securely to every web account

password-security [1]LastPass has announced a partnership to bring its password management services to higher education institutions across the United States through its participation in the Internet2 NET+ initiative.

With NET+ LastPass, universities can now help students, faculty, and staff to remember their passwords and login to every web account while following best practices for password security.

Through the Internet2 NET+ initiative, educational institutions can enroll as early adopters to offer LastPass Enterprise and LastPass Premium packages for their campuses.

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As a password manager, LastPass remembers and automatically fills in the user’s passwords for every website and app. The user only has to remember their one master password for LastPass. LastPass syncs across all browsers, computers, and mobile devices so users have access to all of their data when needed.

“LastPass and Internet2 member institutions worked closely to design and tailor a password solution that best fits the diverse needs of universities and colleges, and their users,” says Richard Biever, Chief Information Security Officer at Duke University. “The service incorporates the distributed enterprise features desired by higher education institutions to manage institutional password policies, as well as consumer features that educate users about proper password etiquette. The partnership between Internet2 and LastPass provides a service that will streamline password creation and management for our faculty, staff and students.”

Both the LastPass Premium and LastPass Enterprise packages offer each user their own LastPass account. Each user then benefits from the higher degree of security that comes with the use of unique passwords for every single login.

At the university administrative level, the LastPass Enterprise package also offers an easy-to-use IT portal, team password sharing features, and turn-key integration with Active Directory and LDAP for simplified deployment.

“We’re thrilled to work with Internet2 to offer secure, reliable, affordable and easy password management across campus,” said Joe Siegrist, CEO and co-founder of LastPass. “We’re proud to partner to keep higher education institutions safe while providing customized tools for superior password maintenance.”

More than 500 colleges, universities, medical institutions, and other higher education organizations are already using LastPass to secure and manage passwords. LastPass helps universities advance their efforts to protect the personal data of faculty, staff, and students.

The new partnership with Internet2 will make LastPass accessible to all Internet2 higher education members through the Internet2 NET+ initiative. Focused on providing secure, agile and reliable user mobility in the cloud to higher education’s diverse users, Internet2 NET+ is a research and education (R&E) community-driven initiative. Through a peer-driven evaluation process, R&E institutions and cloud service providers work together to develop offerings that maximize deployment efficiencies and minimize the business and legal challenges, financial costs, and technology risks of migrating from on-campus to cloud-based solutions.

“Cybersecurity remains a top priority for campuses everywhere, and with NET+ LastPass, higher education institutions can add a layer of individualized security via a proven password manager that employs recognized best practices in trust and identity management,” said Shelton Waggener, senior vice president at Internet2. “Subscribing institutions also gain the benefit of a tailored solution that has been vetted through the rigorous NET+ service validation process.”

The Internet2 NET+ LastPass offering provides a higher education version of the LastPass solution and is now in the early adopter phase.

For more information on the offering, visit https://lastpass.com/internet2 [2].

Material from a press release was used in this report.