Cyber-Ark - Cyber-Ark Suite

Introduction

Cyber-Ark Privileged Identity Management suite secures, manages, and monitors all privileged accounts including root for UNIX and Linux, Enable for Cisco, and administrator for client devices, which often have shared passwords for multiple administrators. The strength of the Cyber-Ark PIM product set comes from its ability to enforce the concept of individual accountability.

Features and benefits

• Ensures that individual users are securely authenticated before granting privileged access to target systems, addressing shared password issues.
• Controls activities between log-on and log-off, ensures they are captured and stored in easily retrievable forms, extending individual accountability.
• Enforces password management best practices, including frequent password changes and the use of strong password structures.

Highlights

The Cyber-Ark PIM suite comprises of a secure digital vault, which is a software-based encryption system for storing credentials and privileges. The suite consists of four products: Enterprise Password Vault, Privileged Session Manager, Application Identity Manager, and On-Demand Privileges Manager.

Cyber-Ark PIM components support

policy-based access controls (supported by strong authentication), access event recording and playback facilities, policy-based periodic password refresh capabilities, password and a access management for application-to-application authentication scenarios, and command level control of privileged access.

Your key questions answered

• Provides support for shared accounts, application accounts, session monitoring and fine-grained access controls from within a unified interface.
• Allows administrators command-level control of what privileged users can do, also offers secure access to target systems without revealing passwords.
• Supports over 50 security systems, database platforms, network devices, client and server operating systems (OSs), and enterprise applications.