PAR was specifically designed to solve the security can compliance issues associated with the management and control of shared privileged passwords. The PAR is a purpose built hardened appliance. A commercial embedded firewall (CyberGuard SG630) protects the network interface. No interactive access is allowed. The hard disk is encrypted using AES256 disk encryption to protect against physical attack. The passwords themselves are also AES256 encrypted prior to being stored on the PAR.