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Security software provider Cyber-Ark yesterday unveiled an updated version of its access management tool, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Suite 5.0.
Available immediately, PIM 5.0 is a combination of two existing Cyber-Ark products: Application Identity Manager (AIM) and Enterprise Password Vault (EPV).
Together, the two programmes can be used to track, manage, and record access to sensitive applications and databases, ensuring that privileged accounts are not abused.
Adam Bosnian, Cyber-Ark’s vice president of products, strategy and sales, explained: “The controls that are needed over business systems are getting wider and they are getting deeper.
“Organisations also need a log of all people who have accessed all of their critical business systems.
“That means having to control privilege access, just as we have moved to control end-user access.”
System auditors will be able to see what administrators and super users access — including who accessed certain data, and what that data was used for.
“You can now not only tell an auditor who was using the system and when, but what they were doing,” said Bosnian.
PIM 5.0 monitors passwords and accounts used to access applications, scripts, routers, servers, databases, and workstations.
A new feature in PIM 5.0 is the Privileged Session Manager (PSM), which acts as a conduit through which all privileged access is directed.
Bosnian said: “It’s like a privileged access proxy: you request access via PSM, and it retrieves the credentials from Password Vault and initiates the session on the target system.”
Because access must be requested for each session, the need for static passwords is eliminated, removing a potential security weakness.
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