Privileged Access Management (PAM) is one of the most important areas of risk management and security in any organization. Changing business practices, agile software development and digital transformation has meant that PAM solutions need an enhanced set of features to reduce the risk of privileged accounts being hijacked in this more challenging operating environment.
One of the most important aspects of an identity and access management (IAM) program is the securing, management and governance of the accounts belonging to superusers — privileged accounts. Like the accounts used by regular users, these superuser accounts require access management – ensuring that admins have the access they need to do their job — and governance – ensuring that there is oversight and control over that access, often for the purpose of compliance. Unfortunately, privileged accounts have some unique idiosyncrasies that make both access management and governance difficult or impossible with traditional PAM methods. To learn how to deal with those unique characteristics and manage your privileged accounts successfully, assume that the ideal PAM program addresses the broadest range of privileged accounts and elevated-access users. That’s where the problems start for most organizations.
Before there were privileged access management (PAM) solutions, it seemed that everyone was given access to privileged accounts with little regard for who had access, when they had access and what they did with that access. As security breaches started to rise and compliance regulations were written, it was obvious that manual processes and home-grown approaches to privileged access management solutions weren’t enough. Why make the investment to next-gen PAM? After we briefly cover the history of first-gen and next-gen PAM solutions, we will give you five reasons to consider purchasing next-gen PAM solutions. At minimum, we think you’ll be intrigued and, at best, convinced you need to procure next-gen for your organization.
Privileged accounts are a necessity in any enterprise IT environment, since they enable administrators to manage the environment. But as news reports constantly remind us, granting privileged access increases the risk of a security breach, no matter what industry your organization represents. However, your organization does not have to become the next statistic. By taking the five concrete steps outlined in this paper, you can help protect your organization from the risks inherent in privileged accounts.
So where does the power lie in your enterprise? Who has admin access to which resources? And how much are you relying on faith in your current security approach to ensure that the wrong person doesn’t find a weakness and exploit it?
Today, video is the most compelling content on the web, and is undeniably one of the most powerful tools available to retailers in the internet age. Yet how to create, edit, manage and distribute video across devices – and across a whole retail business – at the scale needed to satisfy the massive and growing hunger for video content is a real challenge.
This whitepaper will not only outline the familiar ideas of the power of video and why it is important, but will also focus on how to create, manage and distribute this content at scale and across channels and platforms for reuse – efficiently and cost effectively, with real ROI goals
Today, video is the most compelling content on the web, and is undeniably one of the most powerful tools available to retailers in the internet age. Yet how to create, edit, manage and distribute video across devices – and across a whole retail business – at the scale needed to satisfy the massive and growing hunger for video content is a real challenge.
This whitepaper will not only outline the familiar ideas of the power of video and why it is important, but will also focus on how to create, manage and distribute this content at scale and across channels and platforms for reuse – efficiently and cost effectively, with real ROI goals
Unless you’re an IT company, you’re not in business to run IT. You’re in business to manufacture things, provide services, serve customers—ultimately, to make money. You want to be spending your time running your business, not looking after the IT you use to do it.
The trouble is, IT does need looking after. Sometimes computers run slow or crash. They get filled up with files and run out of space. They have to be protected from the latest viruses. If you neglect routine maintenance you can suffer disruption to business, loss of revenue and damage to your reputation.
But keeping infrastructure up to date can be a very time-consuming task. In fact, it’s the biggest challenge 50% of IT managers face and it can cost 11% of overall IT running costs . Yet while it’s important, this reactive manual work diverts your skilled IT staff from strategic innovation1 that could add more value to your business.
Fortunately, there’s now a way out of this dilemma: a new generation of IT infrastructure that manages itself.
The HPE GreenLake virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) lighthouse program is an innovative, turnkey solution from HPE Pointnext Services. It offers organizations that are planning to refresh their VDI environments with a unique as-a-service option to keep their workloads on-premises, scale simply, and pay-per-user, per-month.
The right solution for archiving electronic content provides the foundation supporting the conventional, defensive applications for data retention such as compliance and e-discovery; but also the proactive applications that enable competitive and other advantages.
Sponsored by Mimecast, this paper from Osterman Research details how archiving trends and use cases are changing and key recommendations on building a next-generation solution.
Information management is getting harder.
Organizations face increasing data volumes, more stringent legal and regulatory record-keeping requirements, stricter privacy rules, increasing threat of breaches and decreasing employee productivity.
Companies are also finding that their old-fashioned, legacy archive strategies are increasingly ineffective. This is driving many organizations to rethink their approach, developing more modern Information Governance strategies.
Download this whitepaper to explore how to build a modern information governance strategy.
There is intense pressure on organizations to transform their enterprises to remain more competitive in an age of disruption. This digital transformation imperative requires organizations to improve— and often completely overhaul—their technical capabilities. But true transformation demands more than just new technologies. It requires strategic vision and commitment from the top of the organization to rethink and retool the three main attributes of the modern enterprise— its culture, its processes, and its technology. Any effective digital business leader will tell you that introducing new technology is the easier part; it’s the cultural and process changes that can thwart transformation progress.
An application or service that you develop once to run in multiple clouds has a clear advantage over one that is bound to a single OS or runtime environment. Container technology makes it possible, but container security vulnerabilities are beginning to surface. We describe 6 steps you can take to ensure that container security doesn’t become a DevOps roadblock.
How can you secure your apps and services without compromising your schedule? (Hint: It’s all in the automation.) Enterprises are using hybrid cloud technologies to enrich the user experience and power their digital transformation. But running applications in public clouds while managing the application data in private clouds makes for a unique set of security requirements. We discuss the challenges that DevOps teams face in hybrid environments and how those challenges can be overcome.