Creating Secrets

Secrets allow you to store and vault your own personal passwords, notes, and other text-based information. When you create a secret, EmpowerID uses your master password to encrypt the information you are vaulting. Once the secret is created, you use your master password to decrypt and view the secret.

Secrets can be of three types:

Password — This type is for vaulting personal passwords. Vaulted information includes your user name and password, as well as the URL to the login page for Web-based applications.
Credit Card — This type if for vaulting your personal credit card information.
Note — This type is for vaulting text-based information.

It is important to note that secrets are personal information only. Passwords cannot be used by other people or systems, linked to a user account or an inventoried object such as a computer. You own and control all secrets you create.

To create a secret

From the navbar, expand Privileged Access and click Request Access.
Click the Secrets tab and then click the Create New Secret button.

This opens the Password Vault Data form, which contains contextual fields related to the secret type.
Select the type of you want to create from the Secret Type field. In this example, we are vaulting password information for a personal account in a Web application..
Enter a Display Name for the secret in the Display Name field. What you enter here is what displays to you in the EmpowerID UI.
Enter the User Name for the account in the User Name field.
Enter the Password for the account in the Password field.
Optionally, enter the Login Page URL in the Login Page URL field.
Optionally, enter any Notes in the Notes field.
Click Save.
Enter your Master Password and then click OK.

Once EmpowerID processes your request, you will see the secret in the Secrets tab. This secret will only show for you and for those people with whom you share it.