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How to use One Time Password (OTP)

Remote Desktop Manager has done it again, we pulled another rabbit out of a hat to simplify your life! RDM has added One Time Password (OTP) to our long list of supported credential entries. You can n...

Data Source Permissions in Remote Desktop Manager

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been focusing on RDM’s role based security system and exploring the difference between roles and permissions set on entries. Today, we’ll look at a new feature: implemen...

Guest Blog: Remote Desktop Team Considerations

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A BLOG SERIES CREATED BY THE PETRI IT KNOWLEDGEBASE TEAM AND TECHNICAL WRITER MICHEAL OTEY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS. In today’s corporate environment, IT administrator...

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How to Secure SSH with Google Two-Factor Authentication

A few weeks ago we took a look at how to secure Open SSH in 10 steps, and one of those steps was how to secure SSH using Two-Factor Authentication. Well, since it is quite complex to set up, we’ve dec...

Guest Blog: Best Practices for Securing Remote Desktop Connections

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A BLOG SERIES CREATED BY THE PETRI IT KNOWLEDGEBASE TEAM AND TECHNICAL WRITER MICHEAL OTEY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS. Windows Remote Desktop Connection is one of the ad...

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Sysadminotaur #58 : Legacy

Should You Use RDM Jump or SSH Port Forwarding?

Should You Use Remote Desktop Manager Jump or SSH Port Forwarding?

There may be times you’re not sure whether to use RDM Jump or SSH port forwarding. I’ll admit that even I get confused sometimes! The easiest way to look at this is not as an “either/or” decision – be...

RDM for Windows vs. RDM for iOS

Recently, I looked at the differences between RDM for Windows and RDM for Android. But don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten all of you iPhone and iPad fans, because today we’ll be comparing RDM for Window...

Guest Blog: Five Essential Remote Desktop Tips

THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF A BLOG SERIES CREATED BY THE PETRI IT KNOWLEDGEBASE TEAM AND TECHNICAL WRITER MICHEAL OTEY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVOLUTIONS. Windows Remote Desktop Connection is the IT admini...

How Can Remote Desktop Manager Help You Become PCI Compliant

PCI DSS is an acronym for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It’s a set of worldwide protection standards developed by major payment card companies, and it’s mandatory for businesses that s...

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[Customer Story] VMware Uses Remote Desktop Manager To Store Its Passwords in a Secure and Centralized Location

“Remote Desktop Manager is my favorite tool and I cannot imagine working without it.” – Anjani Kumar, VMware’s Cloud Implementation and Deployment Engineering Consultant Client Snapshot: VMware VMwar...

10 Steps to Secure Open SSH

Well we might as well call this month our SSH month since we are full throttle on SSH! Following our “Reverse SSH Port Forwarding” and “How to Configure SSH Tunnel on Putty”, we thought it would be go...

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Sysadminotaur #57 : Emergency

How to Configure an SSH Tunnel on PuTTY

Most of you have probably used a tunnel with an SSH connection. What you probably weren’t aware of is that you can use a dynamic tunnel to access all remote infrastructure. Furthermore, you can specif...

April Poll: What PAM Software Do You Use & Recommend?

April Poll: What PAM Solution Do You Use & Recommend?

The beginning of April may be dominated by April Fool’s jokes, but for the poll this month we’re taking a more serious turn, because the topic is network security. Specifically, we’d like to know: wha...

What is Reverse SSH Port Forwarding

Reverse SSH Port Forwarding specifies that the given port on the remote server host is to be forwarded to the given host and port on the local side. To try to put this as simple as can be, Reverse SSH...

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[UPDATED] 100+ Must-Have IT Tools – IT Pros Have Spoken!

You may recall that in November, we posted a large list of must-have IT tools. The list was curated using submissions we received to one of our most popular polls ever, in which we asked you to share ...

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Sysadminotaur #56 : Million Dollar App

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The History of Programming

Are you a student of history? If so, then you may know when the Magna Carta was signed, or who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. But how sharp are your mind and memory when it comes to the history of ...

Devolutions Web Login for Edge

Recently, we took a look at the new Devolutions Web Login, which is a handy browser extension for Remote Desktop Manager. Installing Devolutions Web Login on Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE is simple an...