Business Solutions
Shared Administrative Accounts
The Challenge
In addition to mismanaged Administrative/Privileged User accounts and passwords, lack of management over Shared Administrative Accounts is adding to the IT security risk and complex compliance challenges facing organizations. Unsecured Administrative/Privileged Passwords may result in internal and external hacker attacks, lost business, legal liability and/or audit deficiencies. Additionally, when it comes to managing privileged identities, most enterprises have been forced to invest in separate solutions to manage the lifecycle and access-control policies across all shared and “super user” accounts, resulting in cumbersome controls and inconsistent policies.
The Solution
Interested in the latest strategies and technologies for securely managing non-personal passwords such as administrator, emergency, root, shared, app, script and parameter files? Enterprise Password Vault® is the award-winning solution to secure, manage, automatically change and log all activities associated with all types of Administrative/Privileged Passwords, such as administrator on a Windows server, Root on a UNIX server, Cisco Enable on a Cisco device as well as embedded passwords found in applications and scripts. And with its expansion into the superuser access control market, Cyber-Ark becomes the first vendor to provide a unified, policy-driven approach for shared-account/software-account password management (SAPM) and superuser privilege management (SUPM).
Cyber-Ark centralizes these powerful passwords into one single repository where it enables customers to enforce policy as to WHO has access and WHAT passwords are updated. Of course, the updates must occur automatically, eliminating the need for manual assistance. In addition, once all your most powerful passwords are centralized one spot, that area must be secured. Enterprise Password Vault from Cyber-Ark meets all of these requirements and more.
