PRIVILEGED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT NEWS LINE
October 2009
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 Encrypted Document Storage Appliances: A Poor Man's Stopgap Philip Lieberman, Founder and CEO Lieberman Software Corporation When a company begins the journey to improve its security for handling privileged identities, it first examines how it currently manages these accounts. In many cases, the information is kept in people’s heads, on sticky-notes, in publicly available spreadsheets, or the knowledge is lost. As a consequence of these ad-hoc credential management solutions, one of the most fundamental tenants of security - regularly changing sensitive passwords - rarely occurs. Faced with a failed audit, many IT organizations attempt to take a shortcut and purchase our competitor’s “encrypted document storage” solution. The thinking goes that if the IT department can hide away the passwords and who is using or knows them from the auditors, then they can pass their regular security audits and move on to other tasks. Unfortunately, this misguided approach never solves the fundamental problems with shared passwords, unchanged critical passwords, and unknown/unmanaged credentials. What we have seen recently is that security auditors are getting wise to the “hiding credentials” solution of our competitors. Auditors are now demanding that customers implement Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the proactive and audited handling of privileged accounts as well as ensuring discovery of all the places they are used. The days of allowing static shared passwords to be used as well as storing passwords in Excel spreadsheets in a standalone application or appliance are coming to an end. We are also seeing customers that are disillusioned with the incomplete and unmet promises of competitive solutions that are now in the 2nd or 3rd year of implementation, with no completion date in sight. We have seen customers come to the realization that their vault-based solutions are wholly incapable of keeping up with the complexity and growth of their IT infrastructure. Now they are looking for a highly-automated solution that can provide a security SLA without taking years to deploy. If you are user of one of our competitor's products and now have to implement proper security for your privileged accounts, let us show you how easily and quickly this can be accomplished with the right technology. Send an email to sales@liebsoft.com and let us show you the right way to implement privileged identity management. |
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| Breaking News! With the release of Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM) 4.81 we build upon our market-leading account discovery and propagation capabilities to offer the first truly cross-platform privileged identity management solution. ERPM 4.81 now offers a choice of Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle 11g Release 2 as the secure, back-end data store. Along with the Oracle data store integration, version 4.81 adds comprehensive support for today's multi-platform Oracle environments. It integrates out-of-the box with Oracle Internet Directory and discovers and manages the privileged credentials found within Oracle 11g, 10g and 9i databases, and within applications such as Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards that use these databases and credentials. New discovery, management, and propagation features add support for application pools and virtual directories, IIS 6 and 7Sybase ASE, SharePoint and more. Version 4.81 also offers expanded directory services integration to support eDirectory, Tivoli Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Apache Directory, and other LDAP-compliant directories. By managing all major directories and platforms ERPM 4.81 is the first privileged account password management solution that can control the privileged identities on virtually every IT resource in the multi platform enterprise. Contact us today to see if you qualify for our product evaluation program. We will show you how we can help bring your organization into compliance and secure your back-office infrastructure. |
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