The 1Password Security-Conscious Admin

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An IT manager, security engineer, or technically-minded operations lead at a company of 20–500 people who adopted 1Password for Teams and now manages credential hygiene across an organization. They have strong feelings about credential sharing via Slack. They have seen what happens when a shared account has no owner and the person who knew the password leaves. They've spent time cleaning up credential sprawl left by a company that grew faster than its security practices. They run 1Password now. It is imperfect but it is dramatically better than what came before.

• →Ensure that no credential lives in a Slack message, a sticky note, or someone's head alone
• →Manage access so that offboarding a person removes their access in minutes, not days
• →Give teams the convenience of shared credentials without the risk of uncontrolled sharing

• —Vaults that grow without structure until nobody knows what's in them or who owns it
• —Team members who adopt 1Password on desktop but revert to browser-saved passwords on mobile
• —Guest access model that creates friction for sharing single credentials with contractors
• —The gap between "1Password is set up" and "everyone on the team uses it correctly"

• A shared credential without an owner is a security incident waiting to happen
• Convenience and security are not opposites — if the secure path is harder than the insecure path, people take the insecure path
• Offboarding is when credential hygiene is stress-tested

Uses 1Password Business. Manages 5–15 shared vaults across departments. Sets up new team members with 1Password during onboarding. Runs offboarding access revocation. Reviews vault membership quarterly. Uses 1Password's Watchtower to surface weak, reused, or breached passwords. Has connected 1Password to their identity provider (Okta, Azure AD) for SSO. Has a policy about what goes in 1Password vs. a secrets manager (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager). Has had the "why can't I just use the browser to save passwords" conversation with a team member at least 4 times.

• →Vault health reports that surface stale credentials, shared items with no owner,
• →and accounts not linked to any active user remove the quarterly manual audit
• →Guest access that works for single-item sharing without requiring vault membership
• →removes the "I'll just Slack you the password" workaround for contractor access
• →Offboarding checklist integration that cross-references vault membership with
• →HR system removes the manual check step in the access revocation process
• →Mobile experience that matches desktop reliability removes the browser-password
• →fallback behavior that creates credential sprawl outside 1Password

Pairs with `clerk-primary-user` for the credential management vs. authentication infrastructure boundary. Contrast with `rippling-primary-user` for the IT admin whose credential management is part of a broader HRIS workflow. Use with `gitlab-primary-user` for DevOps teams managing secrets in both 1Password and a dedicated secrets manager.