CyberArk: The Undisputed Leader in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Why Incorporate a PAM Solution?
Privileged accounts and the access they provide represent the greatest security vulnerability that an organization faces today. These accounts exist with scope across the entire network. When used properly, privileged accounts are utilized to maintain systems, facilitate automated processes, protect sensitive information, and ensure business continuity. However, in the wrong hands, these accounts can be used to steal data and cause irreparable harm. Privileged access is used in nearly every cyberattack. Organizations face a series of challenges in protecting, controlling, and monitoring privileged access, including:
- Discovering privileged access: Many organizations lack continuous discovery of privileged access. Digital transformations facilitate constant creation and provisioning of access and new accounts.
- Management of account credentials. Relying on repetitive manual processes to manage privileged credentials is inefficient, risky, and costly.
- Isolating privileged sessions: Using privileged credentials to access critical systems can significantly increase the attack surface.
- Monitoring privileged activity: Many companies cannot centrally monitor and control privileged sessions, exposing the business to security threats and compliance breaches.
- Alerting and responding to threats: Many organizations lack comprehensive threat analysis tools and are unable to proactively identify suspicious activities and correct security incidents.
- Controlling privileged user access: Organizations often struggle to control privileged access to cloud and web applications, creating complexity and compliance risks.
- Applying least privilege rights on servers: It can be challenging to ensure that administrators and developers do not have superuser access to Windows and *NIX servers.
- Protecting Windows domain controllers. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in the Kerberos authentication protocol to impersonate the identity of authorized users accessing domain controllers.
The Solution:
CyberArk Core Privileged Access Security Solution, the industry’s most comprehensive solution. The solution offers risk-based credential protection and session management to detect and prevent privileged access attacks. It enables:
- Continuously discover and onboard privileged accounts and credentials. Execute continuous discovery of privileged accounts and credentials created in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments. Automatically rotate credentials.
- Centrally manage and secure access to privileged credentials based on administratively defined security policies.
- Isolate and record privileged sessions. All privileged sessions are automatically recorded and stored in CyberArk’s encrypted vault.
- Detect, alert, and respond to anomalous privileged activity. The solution collects data from multiple sources and applies a complex combination of statistical and deterministic algorithms to identify malicious privileged access activity. Correct suspicious behavior by initiating automatic credential rotation and suspending or terminating privileged sessions based on predefined high-risk activity or commands.
- Least privilege access control for *NIX and Windows. The solution enables privileged users to execute authorized administrative commands from their native Unix or Linux sessions while removing unnecessary root privileges. It enables organizations to block and contain attacks on Windows servers to reduce the risk of stolen information.
- Protecting Windows domain controllers. The solution applies least privilege and application control over domain controllers, as well as provides detection of potential and ongoing attacks. Defend against impersonation and unauthorized access and protect against a wide range of common Kerberos attack techniques, including Golden Ticket, Overpass-the-Hash, and privilege attribute certificate (PAC) manipulation.
Benefits:
- Mitigate security risks. Protect access to privileged credentials. Defend systems against malware and attacks. Efficiently detect and respond to any suspicious activity and malicious actions.
- Reduce operational expenses and complexity. Simplify operations and improve the efficiency of security teams, ‘just-in-time’ privileged access controls, and automated risk reduction policies.
- Enhancing regulatory compliance. Easily demonstrate policies and processes to auditors.
Why CyberArk:
CyberArk offers the most comprehensive Privileged Access Management solution in the industry.
- 4600+ Clients
- +50% of Fortune 500 companies
- +30% of Global 2000 companies
- Insurance: 20 of the top 25
- Banks: 21 of the top 25
- IT Services: 22 of the top 25
- Industry: 20 of the top 25
