The Challenge

At the present time, organizations consume a lot of resources building an infrastructure for securing the enterprise and assuring their business continuity and compliance. All typical IT environments contains of hundreds or thousands of servers, databases, network devices and more, all restricted and managed by a mixture of privileged and shared identities which are the most powerful in any organization. This includes the Root account on UNIX/Linux, Administrator in Windows, Cisco Enable, Oracle system/sys, MSSQL SA and many more.

These identities are often ignored; it is complicated to monitor their session activities, and passwords are never changed. In a number of cases, these identities are required not only by the internal IT personnel, but also by external third-party vendors and, therefore, require extra attention, such as secure remote access and secure session initiation without exposing the credentials. Powerful passwords are also often found hard-coded inside applications, scripts and parameter files, leaving them unsecured and rarely changed.

Mismanagement of privileged identities imposes great risks to organizations. These include the following:

• Insider Threat
• Audit and Accountability
• Loss of Sensitive Information
• Administrative Overhead

The Solution

Quantiq offers a Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Suite which is an enterprise-class, full life-cycle solution for securing, managing, automatically changing and monitoring all activities associated with privileged accounts.

This PIM Suite lets organizations to secure, audit, control and manage most privileged identities, shared and administrative passwords found in routers, servers, databases, workstations as well as the strong application identities set in scripts, configuration files and applications. Moreover, PIM permits recording and monitoring of the privileged session activities. With its unique patented Digital Vault Technology, it produces a centralized point for enterprises to attain extraordinary security, streamline updates, improved maintenance and guarantee compliance with regulation and security practices across all types of privileged accounts.

Effective Privileged Identity Management solutions provides:

• Centralize and Secure Privileged Identities and Accounts
• Apply Policy to these Privileged Identities based on the requester / role
• Personalize access to these Privileged Identities
• Automatically Reset access to these Privileged Identities
• Log and Record on all activities associated with these Privileged Identities

It provides for audit and accountability on the most privileged user accounts, prevent insider threats from making the headlines, stop the loss of sensitive information as well as lessen costs of administrative overhead. It also allows enterprises to reduce further costs and efforts in gathering information about these privileged accounts from all different systems within the organization.