Cloud Distribution offers free password manager to resellers and end users

Cloud aims to raise awareness of necessity for strong password management

Cloud Distribution has partnered with password management vendor Forghetti to raise cybersecurity awareness.

Resellers will be given access to Forghetti's premium password manager subscription for six months, as well as co-branded marketing assets.

Adam Davison, sales and marketing director at Cloud, said that the partnership is designed to stress the importance of password management among the channel and end users.

"With the political uncertainty of the last few years, we wanted to start 2020 with a positive message that gets the channel thinking and provides education about the importance of password protection; something we all so easily forget or ignore," he said.

"We chose to work side by side with a fellow UK organisation to help the UK channel. Our resellers can use this application, share it with their customers, their families, and their colleagues with our promotional code, and with our educational posters and desktop backgrounds. This programme is all about British businesses supporting British IT channel businesses."

Forghetti's password manager works by asking users to draw a shape on their device, which then generates a password for different services.

The vendor says that these passwords are not stored in any database.

"One of the main causes of cyber-vulnerability is the human factor," said Forghetti CEO Mike Crompton.

"A strong security mechanism has two vital components: on one hand, the performant infrastructure and applications which constantly need to be improved, updated and strengthened and on the other, the awareness and knowledge of the user.

"Forghetti is a solution to both of these challenges. Partnering with Cloud Distribution and sharing a common goal with a focus on education, we hope to promote a healthier security conduct, make users feel comfortable and more knowledgeable about cybersecurity, and last but not least to resolve the 'password problem' for everyone."

Partners can find the referral code for access to the premium subscription here.