Today many organizations are implementing Identity Management solutions, primarily with the objective of having a more effective provisioning solution and to better manage employee access. However what many organizations fail to address are the primary objectives of an effective IM solution, namely Securing, Managing, Provisioning and Tracking access to any data, application or service regardless of user type or privilege. The result is that they fail to address the critical issue of securing Privileged Users. This is now the #1 reason why organizations fail IT Audits
Privileged Accounts such as root (UNIX), Administrator (Windows – local and domain), Database owner accounts, Web server accounts, Application server accounts, Router and Firewall accounts, etc., are not owned by an individual user and because they are all-powerful they have material access to sensitive resources, including confidential data. As a result they are at the top of the auditors’ findings list due to increased auditor awareness and sophistication and the emphasis on compliance
The problem is that they are everywhere, and are required for most platforms. Because they are difficult to control, bypass most internal controls, and are known by many administrators they are the primary attack method by insiders. Additionally because they are also embedded in startup scripts, configuration files, batch jobs, they can be used to read or modify confidential information
The failure to control these accounts are key factors in failing to prove compliance with standards such as ISO27001, PCI, and SOX. The lack of sufficient internal controls result in data breaches, denial of service attacks, and compliance review failures and the key areas of vulnerability are Privileged Users access controls both inside and outside the network, confidential data exchange via public networks, and securing highly sensitive data inside the network. The insider threat should be the #1 security concern of enterprises today, primarily because it is clear that insider incidents perpetrated by using system administrator or privileged account, and embedded application accounts are responsible for 9 out of 10 breaches in data security.
To have a better understanding of the issues and the solutions available, Microsoft Corporation and Cyber-Ark Software, market leaders in Privileged Password Management, and makers of the Enterprise Password Vault solution are presenting a one-hour webinar on September 19th from 2:00 PM in the UK, 3:00 PM in Western Europe
The webinar discusses why an organisation needs to control which insiders/partners can access your company’s most confidential data, how to prevent anonymous information leakage, and more? We highly recommend this to internal auditors, IT and database security staff. If you are interested, please register for the upcoming webinar,
To register, please enter the following URL into your browser: www.clicktoattend.com and enter event code 120618.
If you are unable to attend the webinar, Cyber-Ark provides a library of downloadable demos that provide you with an insight into the issues related to managing privileged identities, including practical demos of how the system works. If you are interested to view the demos on the website, please go to
http://www.cyber-ark.com/constants/demos.asp Once you have registered you will be sent a login code
Downloadable demos include
Privileged Accounts such as root (UNIX), Administrator (Windows – local and domain), Database owner accounts, Web server accounts, Application server accounts, Router and Firewall accounts, etc., are not owned by an individual user and because they are all-powerful they have material access to sensitive resources, including confidential data. As a result they are at the top of the auditors’ findings list due to increased auditor awareness and sophistication and the emphasis on compliance
The problem is that they are everywhere, and are required for most platforms. Because they are difficult to control, bypass most internal controls, and are known by many administrators they are the primary attack method by insiders. Additionally because they are also embedded in startup scripts, configuration files, batch jobs, they can be used to read or modify confidential information
The failure to control these accounts are key factors in failing to prove compliance with standards such as ISO27001, PCI, and SOX. The lack of sufficient internal controls result in data breaches, denial of service attacks, and compliance review failures and the key areas of vulnerability are Privileged Users access controls both inside and outside the network, confidential data exchange via public networks, and securing highly sensitive data inside the network. The insider threat should be the #1 security concern of enterprises today, primarily because it is clear that insider incidents perpetrated by using system administrator or privileged account, and embedded application accounts are responsible for 9 out of 10 breaches in data security.
To have a better understanding of the issues and the solutions available, Microsoft Corporation and Cyber-Ark Software, market leaders in Privileged Password Management, and makers of the Enterprise Password Vault solution are presenting a one-hour webinar on September 19th from 2:00 PM in the UK, 3:00 PM in Western Europe
The webinar discusses why an organisation needs to control which insiders/partners can access your company’s most confidential data, how to prevent anonymous information leakage, and more? We highly recommend this to internal auditors, IT and database security staff. If you are interested, please register for the upcoming webinar,
To register, please enter the following URL into your browser: www.clicktoattend.com and enter event code 120618.
If you are unable to attend the webinar, Cyber-Ark provides a library of downloadable demos that provide you with an insight into the issues related to managing privileged identities, including practical demos of how the system works. If you are interested to view the demos on the website, please go to
http://www.cyber-ark.com/constants/demos.asp Once you have registered you will be sent a login code
Downloadable demos include
- Active Directory Integration
- Privileged User Administration
- Dual control
- Password Access and Password Changing
- Privileged Password Management overview