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Business Password Manager: How the mSecure Teams Plan Works

October 10, 2024   |    News, Security

Businesses rely on countless systems, passwords, and sensitive information to keep operations running smoothly, and managing that data securely can be a challenge. That’s where mSecure’s Teams Plan comes in, offering a robust, easy-to-use solution designed specifically for businesses. With features like multi-user licensing, secure data sharing, and license management,…

 

A business password manager solves a problem every growing company runs into: credentials end up scattered. The Wi-Fi password lives on a whiteboard, the shared billing login sits in someone’s inbox, and when a person leaves, nobody is quite sure what they still have access to.

The mSecure Teams plan puts those credentials in one encrypted place with a single license behind it. It covers ten people — the account owner plus nine team members — for $19.90 a month, billed annually. Every one of those ten gets the full feature set, and the account owner also gets a free family plan for personal use.

Here’s what that actually gets you.

Everyone gets the same protection

On Teams, there is no lower tier for junior staff. Every member has the complete feature set: AES-256 encryption, biometric unlock, the password generator, the Security Center, custom templates and fields, file attachments, and syncing across every device they use.

That uniformity matters more than it sounds. Security tends to fail at the least-protected point, and mixed tiers create exactly that: one person on a weaker setup, doing things the insecure way because the secure way isn’t available to them. Giving everyone the same tools removes the excuse and the gap at once.

Passkeys and one-time codes

Two additions in mSecure 7 are particularly useful for a business.

Passkeys replace the password entirely on services that support them. There is no shared secret to phish, guess, or leak in a breach — a meaningful protection when your staff are the ones receiving the phishing emails.

One-time passwords store two-factor codes alongside the login they belong to. This fixes a genuinely awkward business problem: when 2FA lives on one employee’s personal phone, that employee becomes a bottleneck, and access quietly walks out the door when they do. With codes in the shared vault, the second factor belongs to the company rather than to a person.

Ten seats under one license

Teams is a multi-user license: one subscription, one bill, ten people. No chasing individual renewals, no expense reports for nine separate subscriptions, no employee running an expired copy because their card was declined.

The account owner administers the license and controls who holds a seat. If you need more than ten, contact support — expansion is handled case by case rather than through self-service.

Sharing credentials without email

Most credential leaks in a small business are unglamorous. Someone sends a login over Slack, or forwards a password in an email that sits in an inbox for three years, or reads it aloud in a meeting.

The Sharing Center gives that a proper home. You share specific records with specific people, and the data stays encrypted in transit and at rest. The recipient gets what they need for their job and nothing else.

Weak and reused credentials remain among the most common causes of breaches, according to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report. Shared logins passed around by hand are where reuse quietly begins.

Sharing outside the company

You can also share with mSecure users who aren’t on your team — a contractor, an agency, a client. They get access to the specific records you nominate, not your vault, and you can revoke it when the work ends.

That last part is the useful bit. Access granted by email is effectively permanent, because the email still exists. Access granted through the vault can be withdrawn.

Onboarding and offboarding

License management is where a business password manager earns its keep.

When someone joins, you grant a seat and they have what they need on day one, without a colleague reciting passwords to them. When someone leaves, you revoke the seat and the access goes with it.

Offboarding is the moment credential hygiene matters most, and it’s the one situation where changing passwords is unambiguously the right move. (Routine scheduled rotation is a different story — current guidance advises against it.) When access leaves your control, revoke and rotate the shared credentials that person knew.

A family plan for the admin

The Teams plan includes a free family plan for the account owner. It’s the only tier that does.

It exists for a practical reason: the person administering business security has a personal life with its own logins, and mixing the two is how a household streaming password ends up in a company vault. Two separate plans keep that boundary clean.

Is Teams the right plan?

Teams suits a business with up to ten people who share credentials and need a single point of control. If you’re a household rather than a company, the Family plan covers the same ground for personal use. If you’re on your own, Premium has everything except the multi-user licensing.

Full comparison on the plans page, and every feature described here is listed on the features page.

Getting started

Teams is $19.90 a month billed annually for ten people. There’s a 30-day Premium trial with no credit card if you want to try the feature set first, and more on the blog about running security well in a small organisation.

Your team’s credentials are already somewhere. The question is whether that somewhere is a vault you control.