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Monitor BOT password expiry

naga007 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 03:12:00 GMT

Hi Team,

Anyone has developed an automation process with below features?

Monitor BOT password expiry
Send email notification to configured recipients
Define password reminder intervals

Regards,
Naga
EQX

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Nagarjuna A
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RE: Monitor BOT password expiry

RonanConsidine — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:36:00 GMT

Hi Nagarjuna,

We have worked on several of these as below

1. For monitoring a Bot password expiry you can do the following
- rather than monitor the expiry using the 'Expires' you can create an additional property called expiry and set this to be a date. Then when you call the password you can check the property and see if is expired or due to expire and create a process flow from that. On top of this you can then update this property when you update the password

2. Send email notifications - This can be done using the Outlook Email VBO available on the DX - https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/ms-outlook-vbo

3. Define password intervals - Assuming all 3 of these are connected to an "email expiry notification" process, you can use the part of process 1 to read if expiry - Now() < 10 days send reminder email using process 02

Let me know if you have any more questions

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Ronan Considine
Senior Business Analyst
Blue Prism
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RE: Monitor BOT password expiry

naga007 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:58:00 GMT

Thanks Ronan for your suggestions, it helps!

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Nagarjuna A
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RE: Monitor BOT password expiry

jessetutt — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:23:00 GMT

I think the better questions is "How can I convince the risk team that digital workers should be set to have their passwords not expire?".

The answer is - they aren't humans!

We are one of the largest companies in Canada and set all of our digital workers to no expiration.

All critical enterprise application service accounts are set to no expire. Why would digital worker accounts be set to expire? They are critical enterprise application service accounts.

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Jesse Tutt
Program Director, IT AAA COE
Alberta Health Services
Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
https://albertahealthservices.ca
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RE: Monitor BOT password expiry

ewilson — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:04:00 GMT

@jessetutt 's got a good point. Unfortunately, there are many IT/governance/risk teams that simply don't differentiate between human and digital workers. It's good to be able to cover those cases with a clearly defined password management plan for your digital workers.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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