HENNGE launches password manager with Passpack in Japan

HENNGE has launched HENNGE Password Manager with Passpack, extending credential management for HENNGE One customers in Japan.

The product is designed for corporate systems and software outside single sign-on controls, where staff often still rely on browser storage, shared documents, or other informal ways to keep passwords. It gives IT teams a managed way to control employee access to those tools and systems.

Passpack provides the underlying platform, infrastructure, and operations under a strategic business alliance with HENNGE. The partnership, formalised in September 2025, included adapting Passpack's platform for the Japanese enterprise market.

HENNGE One is described as the most widely used cloud identity security platform in Japan, giving the new password management service an established route into large organisations already using HENNGE's identity and access products. The launch also marks the first major product milestone in the partnership between HENNGE and Passpack.

Access gap

The product targets a longstanding weakness in enterprise IT. Even in organisations with centralised identity systems, some applications remain outside single sign-on environments, including legacy systems, supplier platforms, and some software-as-a-service tools.

In those cases, companies can struggle to see who has access to specific accounts and how credentials are used. That lack of visibility has become more significant as businesses face closer scrutiny over access management and data protection.

HENNGE's existing customer base gives the launch broad initial reach across the Japanese enterprise market. The company serves business customers across Japan through HENNGE One and has also expanded internationally with a North American programme launched in 2025.

For Passpack, the launch shows how its software can serve as the foundation for a market-specific product sold by another security provider. The intellectual property related to the customised platform remains with Passpack.

Partnership model

The arrangement reflects a partner-led approach in which Passpack supplies the technology layer while HENNGE brings local market knowledge, customer access, and product positioning. That model may also shape Passpack's work with other software vendors, distributors, and channel partners outside Japan.

Passpack is pursuing additional strategic partnerships in other markets, including with enterprise software providers and regional distributors looking to add credential management to their offerings. The HENNGE deal shows how a password management service can be adapted for a specific geography and customer segment rather than sold only as a standalone product.

HENNGE has positioned the new service as a way to bring password use outside SSO under formal IT oversight. In practice, that means addressing systems beyond the reach of primary login infrastructure that still play a role in day-to-day business operations.

The issue has persisted as many companies modernise identity systems in stages rather than replacing all older tools at once. As a result, IT departments often have strong controls over some applications while employees continue using unmanaged credentials elsewhere.

That split can create operational and compliance problems, particularly when teams share access to third-party tools or maintain accounts for older internal systems. It can also leave security teams without a clear audit trail when staff join, change roles, or leave the business.

Chris Skipworth, Chief Executive Officer at Passpack, commented on the launch.

"What HENNGE has brought to market this week and shared in their press release is the result of two companies working as one," said Chris Skipworth, Chief Executive Officer at Passpack. "Their understanding of the Japanese enterprise market, combined with our technical capability, produced something neither could have done alone. That is what this alliance was built for."