Keeper Remote Desktop Manager

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Oneof Remote Desktop Manager's greatest characteristics is its ability to integrate with a wide variety of existing technologies, giving IT pros like you the power to control the IT chaos in your environment. Here at Devolutions, we love the challenge of integrating the tools you use every day, and at the same time, we really enjoy working with external vendors to make these integrations a reality for you.

Today, I am pleased to announce that Remote Desktop Manager is now fully integrated with Keeper, the excellent password manager from the good folks over at Keeper Security. Working with the team over there has been a blast, and it has allowed us to expand the capabilities of RDM by offering you yet another excellent credential management solution. If you still haven't found a good password manager that works well with RDM, then I recommend checking out keeper.

I feel the same way. I still use Keepass for logons over multiple nested RDP connections where the clipboard does not work. This feature would be a neck breaker for other password managers. Until when, do you think, such a feature could be available?

KeePass autofill requires that you place your cursor in the first field in which you need to enter credentials and then you open KeePass and click on the credentials you want to enter and hit the autofill button and it automatically switches back to the last window you were using and starts entering the credentials needed.

I have about 20 desktop applications on my private PC, where I have to log in manually.

At work I have about 10 - 20 applications (but I am not sure yet).

So in total about 30 - 40 applications.

But I am currently switching to Bitwarden (adding all passwords in Bitwarden manually by letting KeePassXC fill the login form and Bitwarden store the new password, then adding all missing information from KeePassXC and then changing the password).

But this forces me to have 40 passwords twice (in KeePassXC and Bitwarden).

And to take the KeePassXC database always with me (at work, at my laptop).

This is one reason why I switched to Bitwarden (database is always with me).

So actually, the potential of having such an auto-type feature which uses process titles would be a killer feature. As this is missing, I am currently staying with the keepass format in combination with MacPass.

Keeper Connection Manager offers teams instant access to RDP, SSH, databases, web apps and Kubernetes endpoints through a secure web browser. Built by the team who created Apache Guacamole, Keeper is deployed as a container to any environment for seamless and secure access without the need for a VPN.

With its latest update, Keeper Connection Manager now supports launching web sessions directly within the connection manager interface through the use of Remote Browser Isolation technology. Just like any other Keeper Connection Manager connection type, these sessions can be shared in real time, recorded and audited.

Keeper's Remote Browser Isolation can securely and automatically inject credentials, submit forms and control the target web application without ever sending the credentials to the user's device. Keeper is compatible with any desktop and mobile web browser including Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox and Brave.

"Typically, organizations need to use VPNs or cloud-based Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) products to provide access to internal web applications or cloud-based apps," said Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. "With this latest capability, organizations can now deploy a simple Keeper Connection Manager container to any on-premises or cloud environment and provide their users and contractors with secure remote access to web resources. The user experience is so seamless users don't even realize they are in a virtualized browser."

Since Keeper Connection Manager is deployed as a container to any environment, the customer is in complete control over the network traffic and the remote browser isolation runtime environment. The entire process is zero knowledge and never transacts over any third-party network.

In addition to the benefits of securing access to web-based applications, Keeper's Remote Browser Isolation feature provides an extra layer of protection against cyber threats associated with malicious websites. The website never executes locally on the user's device, so the user is immune to many different attack vectors such as reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, cross-site request forgery and API abuse.

Administrators can control which web applications can be accessed through the connection manager, with the ability to allow and deny specific websites and domains. Keeper integrates with OIDC and SAML 2.0 to securely authenticate users and control access to the target web session, even if the application doesn't support SSO. Several methods of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) are available, and for government users, CAC/PIV can be used to authenticate.

Remote Browser Isolation is the latest enhancement to KeeperPAM, Keeper's easy-to-use and scalable PAM solution that transforms the way organizations of all sizes can protect themselves against cyber attacks in a world of distributed workforces and multi-cloud computing. Keeper Security Government Cloud password manager and privileged access manager is FedRAMP Authorized and StateRAMP Authorized, and maintains the Keeper Security zero-trust security framework alongside a zero-knowledge security architecture, so users have complete knowledge, management and control over their credentials and encryption keys.

About Keeper SecurityKeeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper's affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of end-to-end encryption, zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance. Trusted by millions of individuals and thousands of organizations, Keeper is the leader for best-in-class password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging.

Keeper Connection Manager, is a Zero-Knowledge and Zero-Trust platform that provides instant, secure and effortless access to your infrastructure and desktops from any device. Keeper Connection Manager is an agentless remote desktop gateway that can be installed in any on-premise or cloud environment.

Keeper Connection Manager was built by the original creators of Apache Guacamole, a widely used open source remote access gateway with millions of installs. Guacamole's proven technology and active development community provides customers with a high level of trust.

Here's how it works. Keeper Connection Manager is easily installed into your environment as either a docker container or as a service on any CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine. The platform is 100% clientless, agentless and browser-based, which means that you don't need to install anything on your endpoints or target systems. Access can be controlled through many different methods including SSO, Active Directory, password, MFA, firewall rules and client certificates - even passwordless.

For privileged sessions, the platform allows you to set up remote sessions for users without exposing the credentials to the user. Session videos and keystrokes can be recorded for auditing purposes, and there's a ton of flexibility in how you can configure the remote sessions. You can even share sessions between multiple users, providing many flexible use cases and workflows.

In the simplest use case, you can replace your existing VPN and legacy remote desktop tools.

Users just login to Keeper Connection Manager and then instantly access their desktops and systems with one click. It's all through a web browser so the user experience is super simple. The remote session is very fast and responsive.

Desktop access works with RDP or VNC protocols, so it's compatible with any type of Windows, Mac or Linux system.

For terminal-based sessions, the SSH experience is just as simple and responsive.

The SSH connection type behaves just as if you were sitting on the physical machine.

For web-based access, Remote Browser Isolation sessions are almost indistinguishable from using the native browser.

As you can see, the user doesn't need to know the credentials to login to the remote system. It's completely managed by Keeper.

You can switch between multiple active connections by clicking on the thumbnail here. Switching between desktops is instant.

You can tile multiple connections in the same window. I'll open 4 different connections to different endpoints just by multi-selecting them here.

I can even execute the same terminal commands in all of the systems at once.

Connections can be shared among team members. This is helpful in situations where you need to collaborate on the same session, or if you just need to monitor usage. You can join existing sessions from the "Active Sessions" screen....

Or, you can share your session with an outside user, such as a contractor, with a Share link.

Login sessions can be recorded, audited and played back by the administrator. Video of every mouse movement, keystroke and user interaction is captured for auditing purposes.

For privileged sessions, Keeper Connection Manager integrates with Keeper Secrets Manager. This allows the Admin to manage and protect the privileged account credentials in the Keeper Vault, and carve out specific records and folders that the connection manager can access. When a user is granted access to a remote session, the credentials are never exposed to the user. That's managed between Keeper Connection Manager and the Keeper Vault. Everything is protected with zero-trust and zero-knowledge security under multiple layers of encryption.

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