LastPass Teams is a great entryway to enhancing your organization’s security, but are you getting the most out of it?
Understanding the key differences between Teams and Business is crucial to finding the right solution that fits your needs – both present and future.
Coverage & Scalability
LastPass Teams is a great way for a small group of employees to manage their work credentials. However, there is a limitation: you can only have 50 seats. This can lead to friction when it comes to coverage scalability across the entire organization. And when passwords are pervasive, only offering Teams to a segment of the organization leaves security gaps.
LastPass Business, on the other hand, offers a comprehensive password management solution that extends coverage across your entire organization. A Site License allows you to purchase seats for all employees at your organization at a set rate. You can then add seats as your company grows.
LastPass Business also offers a complimentary LastPass Families account to protect both their professional and personal digital lives. Families can increase adoption within your organization by encouraging users to take advantage of a free Families subscription.
When onboarding a new employee, have them take advantage of the Families benefit so that they create a LastPass account their very first day.
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Policies & Reporting
With LastPass Teams you can generate three report types to see a high-level view of user activity, admin activity, and security reports. This is a quick and easy way for you to identify users with easily guessable master passwords.
You can also check on different security strengths and password scores to assess overall security posture. Get insight into the number of active licenses and total licenses with user reports while inviting, reinviting or disabling users.
Once you have that high-level overview, you’ll want to enforce security best practices. This is possible through the 25 policies available in Teams. Some are on by default, and a few are customizable. We recommend ensuring that the default ones make sense for your organization. Two we recommend turning on to encourage end user control and to add an extra layer of security are: 1) Enforce MFA and 2) Master Password requirements.
With LastPass Business, you have access to everything in Teams along with additional reporting capabilities at your fingertips. There is a more extensive list of events that you can pull from based on your needs in addition to the standard admin and end user reporting. You can also automate your reports, removing the need to login and manually pull them, and have access to security reporting.
With LastPass Business, there are over 120 policies available to configure to meet your business needs. You can apply these policies to individual users, groups, or to your whole organization.
You can also access data visualization tools that help highlight enrollment. With our adoption dashboard, you can get insight into how many licenses have been consumed, how many have enrolled, and how many are active. There are also clickable widgets where you can view inactive users and re-invite them with the simple click of a button.
Watch the on demand webinar to see this in action.
User Management
LastPass Teams recognizes users individually. In your admin console, you can activate user licenses, manage settings, re-invite, and disable users. However, this is all on a one-to-one basis and for only up to 50 users. When onboarding and offboarding, it’s important to note you will have to manually go in and add/remove users and change any policies assigned specifically to them.
With LastPass Business, you can still manually load users into Business, but you can also add them via your Active Directory. This will allow a more automated way to provision users, onboard, and offboard. Everything you do in your identity provider environment will sync directly with LastPass. This way you won’t have to duplicate steps or make updates in LastPass. It’s all done automatically.
You also can sync any groups built into your identity provider – like IT, marketing or HR – and apply specific policies and other settings to groups instead of just individual users.
It’s important to think about offboarding here too. If you have an automated process setup, you won’t have to worry about employees taking sensitive company information with them when they leave. If you are manually adding users instead of going through and IdP, ensure that this is a step in your offboarding process.
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Support
There are a few different support options available to LastPass Teams customers:
- Support Center
- LastPass University
- Community Forum
- Video Library
With LastPass Business, you get all the resources listed above, plus:
- 24/7 Phone Support & Cases Portal
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager*
*qualifying customers can receive support through a CSM. For customers who do not qualify, training hours can be purchased.
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As you can see, there are a few key differences between our Teams and Business plans. Ultimately, though, LastPass Business provides more flexibility, policies, and can grow with your business.
If you are an existing customer who is interested in LastPass Business or just considering which product is the right fit for you, please Contact Us to discuss how LastPass can help your organization scale its security.
