Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Symark is now BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust PowerBroker® Joins Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem

“ONLY 47% OF COMPANIES
IMPLEMENT AN IT REGULATORY
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM.”
- DELOITTE SURVEY, 2009


Information technology and intellectual property are the lifeblood of a typical enterprise
these days. Safeguarding these precious assets is imperative to every organization, and
the number one priority needs to be protecting the organization from itself. Specifically,
protecting administrative, database and superuser passwords, such as root, on Unix/
Linux servers represents the most critical access points to business-critical IT assets and
resources at their most fundamental level. Addressing this dilemma, in addition to the
time consuming tasks of managing multiple identity management solutions, can be an
impossible task for enterprises. That is why BeypndTrust chose to partner with Oracle, in
order to offer a single source solution for all enterprise identity management needs.
BeyondTrust PowerBroker, now part of the Oracle® Extended Identity Management
Ecosystem, provides enterprises with a comprehensive privileged access control application
to implement highly flexible policy language to enforce across multiple Unix/Linux
platforms and operations throughout the enterprise. Features include:

SELECTIVELY DELEGATE ROOT & OTHER SPECIAL ACCOUNT PRIVILEGES
PowerBroker enables users to perform specified administrative tasks without disclosing the
account password to them, dramatically strengthening enterprise security. Additionally,
PowerBroker secures and manages third-party application account privileges, such as Oracle
database accounts, which commonly store business critical information.

HIGHLY CONFIGURABLE SECURITY & ENFORCEMENT POLICIES
PowerBroker offers a dynamic policy scripting language to arm administrators with the tools
to create and manage detailed policies seamlessly, which grant specific access to perform
tasks. Enterprises can granularly restrict per user, group, netgroup, host, day/date/time, to/
from specified hosts, and based upon AD, NIS, NIS+ or LDAP data.

SECURELY LOG, REPORT & PRODUCE RELIABLE AUDIT TRAILS
PowerBroker logs every requested task, including all environmental information, and
encrypts logs to prevent modification. PowerBroker protects enterprises from common
violations of many U.S. and Canadian government compliance regulations and industry
standards such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, GLBA and FISMA.

QUICK DEPLOYMENT & NON-INTRUSIVE
PowerBroker provides reliable, highly secure operations with minimal impact to existing
systems and network architectures. There are no required changes to the Unix/Linux kernel
or operating system or system reboots after installation. PowerBroker sessions are similar to
telnet sessions, requiring minimal system resources.






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