This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach to protecting the critical privileged accounts that are found in virtually every application, database, and infrastructure device throughout most enterprises. This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. Through features such as automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system, PowerKeeper is the only solution in the market that is fully heterogeneous out-of-the-box.