Case Study
Large Health System Turns to Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) for Server Management & System Security
A leading not-for-profit health system in the United States, with multiple hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physician clinics, mental health facilities, independent living centers, and home health agencies, employs more than 9,000 individuals, including nearly 1,400 physicians. Collectively, the entities within the healthcare organization also maintain more than 1,500 licensed beds across the...
Case Study
Leading Global Manufacturing Company Streamlines Administration with Centralized Privileged User Management
Ability to automate ‘what and which’ authentication methods are utilized based on the access request also significantly improves administrator productivity.
Case Study
Top 5 Worldwide Bank Uses Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) for Privileged Access Management
Ensuring security and privacy are central to the continued success for one of the largest bank holding company in the United States. With over 13 million individuals and business customers, this full-service banking, brokerage, and investment company understands the importance of protecting customer information.
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Article
Perspectives on the Changing Linux Ecosystem
Tue, 03/13/2018
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In the early 1990s the Open Software Foundation formed a committee to select and standardize a new Management Platform Toolset for and from the UNIX ecosystem. After much...
Article
With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too
Tue, 03/13/2018
“Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little work. However, even...
Guide
Essentials for Privileged Access Management
Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.
Guide
Our Privileged Access Management Solution - Your Sudo Replacement
Learn how to reduce the risk of insider fraud, streamline regulatory compliance, and greatly reduce administration efforts with an effective privileged access management solution.
Guide
Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance
SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control?
SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...
Article
New Approaches to the SWIFT and PCI-DSS Framework
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE
At the official start of summertime 2016 in Britain we are starting to consume the labour of last autumn, five gallons of alcoholic homemade cider (yum!) made from eight apple varieties grown in mine and my neighbors’ gardens. I’m very VERY careful sterilizing glassware, containers, and buckets: there was this unfortunate...
Article
Pros and Cons for Puppet's Configuration Management & Security
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
I was at the Red Hat Summit in Boston at the end of June. We had a lot of activity at our exhibitor stand, and a lot of discussions being passed on to me by our sales team
I continued to have the same conversation again and again over the three days. This seems to be the year people have finished bedding down Puppet...
Article
Managing IT Access Privileges
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM
Secure, private, effective use of computers by a company (including hosted, cloud and other services as well as the company’s own systems) relies on managing access privileges.
The problem isn’t unique to computers. Office buildings, hotels, apartments and college dorms, for example, typically have “master keys” (or smart ID...
Article
Solving Healthcare Security Concerns
Mon, 03/13/2017
According to a recent KPMG report, four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks. That same report presents how the increased risk to healthcare organizations relates to the richness and uniqueness of the information that health plans, doctors and hospitals handle. Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also...
Article
Sudo or SuDon't: Manage Your Privileged Command Execution and Sudo Policies
Mon, 03/13/2017
System admins need root level authority at all times, system operations staff needs periodic database and application account authority, and security admins needing to protect the environment are some of the few of the challenges of managing privilege in the enterprise server infrastructure. Read this article to learn more about Sudo alternatives.