New update for Enterprise plans: Policy to move users' individual vaults to new `My items` in the organization-owned vault

Today, an update to the Enforce organization ownership policy for enterprise plans now gives each user a space within the organization vault for unshared items. These items that are in the users’ new My items space are still able to be reported on, but are private to the user unless they leave the organization - then admins will be granted access to reassign.

More details: Complete reporting and centralized control | Bitwarden Password Manager for Enterprise | Bitwarden

For background, Bitwarden is architected differently from other password managers. Any item that’s shared goes to a central vault and the item is then owned by the organization. This centralized ownership makes it easy to get full vault health reports, allows admins to control sharing, and prevents data loss when users transition away from the company.

With today’s update, admins can have full oversight to the vault health for every user, and if someone leaves, their unshared items can be accessed and reassigned to their successor or easily rotated. This alone saves admins lots of overhead during offboarding - other solutions require going through account recovery steps to access these items.

At this time, it’s recommended that existing customers don’t do anything and wait until a transfer process is implemented for transitioning items from a user’s individual vault to the new My items space.

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