Digital password supervisor firm 1Password introduced this week intentions to increase the login options of its companies — beginning with one thing the corporate calls Universal Sign On that it says could make logging into completely different web sites or companies even simpler.

1Password already sells subscription companies to small and enormous companies seeking to management and safe entry to varied passwords amongst employees — and now it appears to be like to make Universal Sign On work alongside multi-factor authentication merchandise like Duo and single sign-on (SSO) merchandise like Okta (relying on what the enterprise wants are).

While announcing a brand new funding spherical valuing the corporate at $6.8 billion, 1Password launched a “vision of the future” website presenting a simplified thought on how 1Password may help make logins simpler by remembering what single sign-on technique was used on what web site and trip it by means of for you (thereby, persevering with the custom of solely needing the namesake “one password”).

Tom Warren with The Verge joined 1Password CEO and founders on a Twitter Space discuss on Wednesday, asking:

“How will 1Password try to solve the challenges of universal log on and, in particular, whether you’re trying to compete with Okta, Active Directory and others in this space?”

1Password’s CFO Jeannie De Guzman responded:

“We actually partner with Okta and we are an Okta shop at 1Password. When I think about competing with Okta… we don’t view them as a direct competitor. When you use Okta inside a company, it’s often times a lot of enterprise level software that you have enterprise-wide deployments… there’s a huge proliferation of SaaS apps going out that are being used by all of us at work right now. Those onesies and twosies that go to one person or to a small group of people… those don’t necessarily get caught in Okta”

Guzman explains the difficulty of “shadow IT,” the place folks can nonetheless have entry to issues not ruled by Okta SSO or have accounts for work that IT doesn’t find out about — and that’s the place Guzman says 1Password can cooperate with Okta (or different SSOs).

“We capture all those logins that don’t get captured enterprise-wide.” Guzman gave an instance of this as somebody who has labored finance in varied firms: finance departments might give entry to financial institution accounts with a single sign-on answer utilizing 1Password, even when they’re not configured for Okta-style SSO entry. Guzman additional expanded that many firms might have a finance division worker who simply left and, but, nonetheless is aware of the checking account password.

Today, the corporate posted on its blog to additional clarify how 1Password will work alongside SSO options and why firms actually ought to use its product:

It’s essential to notice that SSO doesn’t remedy all of your safety issues, only a subset of them. For occasion, if a service isn’t built-in into your SSO platform, workers can create an account on their very own, bypassing SSO altogether.

You may take a look at the total 1Password Twitter Space recording beneath.