Patent ID: 8601557

Claim:
A method for authenticating user access to a first secure vault in a vault repository comprising: receiving, at the vault repository, user identification information from a user for verifying the identity of the user; determining whether the user identification information is valid; responsive to determining that the user identification information is valid, transmitting a soft token to a computing device associated with the user, the soft token configured to generate a first single use password; receiving, at the vault repository, the first single use password generated by the soft token; generating a second single use password at the vault repository; authenticating the user to access the first secure vault based on the first and the second single use passwords; creating a second secure vault on the user computing device for securely storing at least one data entry associated with the user; and synchronizing the second secure vault with the first secure vault by transferring at least one data entry from one of the first secure vault or the second secure vault to a corresponding data entry in the other of the first secure vault or the second secure vault.