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date: 2026-06-24T00:00:00+08:00
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# Meet Bitwarden: Password Security You Can Actually Trust

If your team is reusing passwords, storing credentials in spreadsheets, or relying on a browser's built-in password manager, you're one breach away from a very bad day. Bitwarden is the open-source password manager that fixes this — for individuals, teams, and entire enterprises — without locking you into a black box you can't inspect or audit.

It's trusted by over 80,000 organizations worldwide and has ranked #1 in the G2 Enterprise Password Manager category for eleven straight quarters. The reason is simple: it's the rare product that's both genuinely easy to use and genuinely trustworthy under the hood.

## What It Does

At its core, Bitwarden generates, stores, and autofills strong, unique passwords across every device and browser you use. No more remembering passwords, no more reusing them, no more getting phished by look-alike sites (Bitwarden won't autofill on fake websites). It also handles passkeys, two-factor authentication codes via its integrated TOTP authenticator, and encrypted file sharing via Bitwarden Send.

For teams, it adds centralized administration — access controls, permission policies, event logs, directory sync via SCIM, and SSO integration. You get full visibility into who has access to what, and you can provision and deprovision users automatically as your team changes.

## Open Source and End-to-End Encrypted

This is the part that matters most for a technical audience: Bitwarden is fully open source, third-party audited, and built on zero-knowledge encryption. That means Bitwarden the company cannot read your vault. Your data is encrypted before it ever leaves your device. The code is public, the security model is documented in a whitepaper, and there's an active bug bounty program.

If you need to go further, Bitwarden supports **self-hosting** — on-premises or in your private cloud — giving you complete data sovereignty. For organizations with strict compliance requirements, this alone is often the deciding factor.

You can get self-hosting from the community using Vaultwarden.

## Not Just for Humans Anymore

Here's something worth paying attention to: Bitwarden has expanded beyond human credentials. AI agents and automated systems need to authenticate too, and they're often doing it insecurely. Bitwarden's Secrets Manager handles machine-level credentials — API keys, database passwords, access tokens — while the Agent Access SDK provides just-in-time, encrypted access for AI agents with human approval workflows. If your team is building or deploying AI-powered tools, this is increasingly relevant.

## The Bottom Line

If you're evaluating password managers for your team and care about open source, auditable security, and not being locked into a vendor you have to blindly trust — Bitwarden is the clear choice. It's mature, actively maintained, widely deployed, and the security model holds up to scrutiny. Whether you run it in the cloud or host it yourself, your credentials are protected by encryption that even Bitwarden can't break.

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Learn more at [federated.computer](https://federated.computer). Want to offer Vaultwarden/Bitwarden to your customers or partners? Check out [Federated Enterprise](https://enterprise.federated.computer).
