Alex Muntyan

Alex Muntyan

CEO · Enterprise password security

Under Alex's leadership, Passwork has been driven by a straightforward premise: enterprise-grade security should not require enterprise-grade complexity. Over the years, the company has grown from a startup into a trusted European password management platform serving thousands of organizations across the EU, the US, and beyond — fully bootstrapped, founder-owned, and independent.

He writes about the practical side of information security: how organizations actually manage credentials under real-world constraints, where compliance frameworks meet daily operations, and why most security tools fail before they're ever deployed. His perspective is shaped by years of building a product that security teams choose to use.

Articles by Alex Muntyan

Latest — Oct 23, 2026
The White House told federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI." Your agents didn't notice. They...

Agentic shadow AI doesn't care what you call super intelligence

The White House told federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI." Your agents didn't notice. They still hold live OAuth tokens and API keys that nobody owns, and a forgotten pilot token exposed Klue's customers. Here is how to govern them.

Agentic shadow AI doesn't care what you call super intelligence
Oct 15, 2026 — 4 min read
For the third consecutive quarter, Passwork has earned SourceForge's Top Performer badge — this time for Fall 2026....

Passwork wins Top Performer Fall 2026 on SourceForge

For the third consecutive quarter, Passwork has earned SourceForge's Top Performer badge — this time for Fall 2026. Here's what verified reviewers are saying, and the numbers behind the award.

Passwork wins Top Performer Fall 2026 on SourceForge
Oct 14, 2026 — 11 min read
NIST says never rotate. PCI DSS can still say every 90 days. This guide maps nine frameworks and passkeys to vault...

Password manager compliance standards: What changed in 2026

NIST says never rotate. PCI DSS can still say every 90 days. This guide maps nine frameworks and passkeys to vault controls and shows how to resolve the conflict by scope.

Password manager compliance standards: What changed in 2026
Oct 13, 2026 — 10 min read
A KeePass export is a plaintext file waiting to leak. Here's how to move every credential into Passwork, prove the...

KeePass to Passwork migration: Export, import, and verify

A KeePass export is a plaintext file waiting to leak. Here's how to move every credential into Passwork, prove the migration actually worked with a 6-control acceptance test, and retire the old vault without losing anything.

KeePass to Passwork migration: Export, import, and verify
Oct 13, 2026 — 24 min read
Every vendor says "AES-256, zero-knowledge." None of that tells you what one compromised key actually opens. We ran the...

How password managers draw the encryption boundary

Every vendor says "AES-256, zero-knowledge." None of that tells you what one compromised key actually opens. We ran the question against Passwork, Bitwarden, Passbolt, 1Password and Keeper.

How password managers draw the encryption boundary
Oct 12, 2026 — 23 min read
A vault in Frankfurt can still answer to a foreign court order, and an "EU hosted" label says nothing about where the...

GDPR-compliant password management: Where your data lives

A vault in Frankfurt can still answer to a foreign court order, and an "EU hosted" label says nothing about where the backups are. Use the six-zone map to find every place your credentials live, the GDPR duty each one triggers, and the evidence to hold before an audit.

GDPR-compliant password management: Where your data lives
Oct 9, 2026 — 14 min read
A graduating student, an adjunct whose term ended, and a resigning employee are three different events, yet most...

Academic identity lifecycle management for students and staff

A graduating student, an adjunct whose term ended, and a resigning employee are three different events, yet most identity tools treat them as one "leaver" case. Build separate access lifecycles, join them in one identity record, and remove only the access that is no longer justified.

Academic identity lifecycle management for students and staff
Sep 28, 2026 — 16 min read
Password chaos spreads past the IT helpdesk into the rest of the educational institution, draining staff time, widening...

Password chaos in educational institutions: Why it matters

Password chaos spreads past the IT helpdesk into the rest of the educational institution, draining staff time, widening the attack surface, and risking compliance failures. See the three biggest risks and how to close them.

Password chaos in educational institutions: Why it matters
Sep 25, 2026 — 15 min read
KeePass's cryptography is genuinely strong. Its key management for teams is not. Here's where a shared KDBX file breaks...

Passwork vs KeePass: How encryption architecture differs

KeePass's cryptography is genuinely strong. Its key management for teams is not. Here's where a shared KDBX file breaks down — at the save, at the offboarding, at the audit — and what a per-vault key changes.

Passwork vs KeePass: How encryption architecture differs
Sep 25, 2026 — 17 min read
Grover's algorithm barely dents a properly hashed password. Shor's algorithm guts the RSA key exchange sitting next to...

Post-quantum password security: What changes and what to do

Grover's algorithm barely dents a properly hashed password. Shor's algorithm guts the RSA key exchange sitting next to it. Here's the 3-layer audit that tells you which one is actually your problem.

Post-quantum password security: What changes and what to do