Dell Extends Leadership in Privileged Account Management with Unified Security and Management Solution Set
26 Februar 2013 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
As reports of corporate data breaches regularly surface, Dell
Software is enabling IT to drive connected security across the
organization, offering protection from the inside and the outside.
Today, Dell announced the release of Quest One Privileged Access
Suite for Unix, which combines Active Directory bridge and root
delegation technologies to combat against poorly managed privileged
accounts with a single, intuitive interface, to help protect the
organization from the inside out.
Hackers increasingly are mounting targeted, purposeful attacks
on company infrastructure. Reports abound of disgruntled employees
who misuse their privileged access to steal sensitive company data
and customer information, or cause havoc to the organization’s
computer system. Unix systems, by their nature, have the potential
for catastrophic security lapses, particularly in the hands of an
unhappy employee. Organizations often have many Unix and Linux
servers, each functioning independently and requiring its own
management of the shared root account. Not only does this result in
a disconnected collection of inconsistent controls that rely
heavily on error-prone manual processes, but it also means that
access to the root account for each system is gained through a
password often shared among IT staff.
News Facts:
- Dell Software has refocused the lens on
security to establish a connected perimeter around the entire IT
environment, offering protection from threats both external and
internal. To help protect the organization from the inside out,
Dell’s Quest One Privileged Access Suite for Unix unifies and
consolidates identities across the entire environment, assigning
individual accountability and enabling centralized reporting for
Unix access.
- Quest One Privileged Access Suite
for Unix bundles three privileged account management solutions
under a unified console designed to resolve the management and
security shortcomings inherent in Unix.
- Authentication Services is Dell’s AD
bridge solution, which extends the security and compliance of
Active Directory to Unix and Linux ─ along with Mac and many
enterprise applications ─ and shares a powerful management
interface and tight integration with both Quest One Privilege
Manager for Unix and Quest One Privilege Manager for Sudo.
- Quest One Privilege Manager for Unix is
a replacement for sudo that provides fine-grained, policy-based
control to protect the full power of root access from potential
misuse or abuse, and helps define and enforce security policies
stipulating who has access to which root function, as well as when
and where individuals can perform those functions.
- Quest One Privilege Manager for Sudo
takes privileged account management using sudo to the next level,
eliminating inefficient and inconsistent box-by-box management.
Dell’s unique plug-ins can enhance sudo 1.8.1 (and newer) with a
central policy server, centralized management of sudo and the
sudoers’ policy file, and centralized reporting on sudoers access
rights and activities, as well as keystroke logging of activities
performed through sudo.
- Quest One Privileged Access Suite for
Unix gives IT a modular and integrated privileged account
management solution with a unified single source of the truth for
access across the entire Unix/Linux environment, using sudo or
advanced delegation capabilities that best fit the organization’s
needs.
- Quest One Privileged Access Suite for
Unix is available immediately, with North American pricing starting
at $524USD* per server.
Supporting Quotes:
John Milburn, Executive Director, Identity and Access
Management Solutions, Dell Software
“Poorly managed privileged accounts present one of the biggest
security threats to an organization. This means that IT must
broaden its security defense beyond a single inflection point, to
drive protection from both the outside in and the inside out. The
Quest One Privileged Access Suite for Unix offers a complete range
of authentication, authorization and administration capabilities
for Unix/Linux access that affords enterprise protection from the
inside out.”
Tim Westcott, R&D Director, Preventia
“The Quest PAM solution is at the core of security solutions
that we provide to our enterprise clients in the financial sector,”
said Tim Westcott, R&D Director at Preventia. “Many of the UK’s
largest financial organizations rely on our expertise and
knowledge, and Quest has been our choice for clients requiring a
comprehensive, world-class privileged access management solution
for years.”
Scott Crawford, Enterprise Management Associates
“When incidents traceable to poor administrative access
management occur, organizations should note that auditors,
investigators and enforcers will be aware that privileged access
management solutions exist to mitigate such risks. Today’s PAM
solutions can address these gaps, but they can deliver much more.
By supporting a more disciplined approach to IT control with a
movement towards governance, they can also help organizations
improve IT performance and reduce support costs by closing one of
the most readily managed gaps of all: the weakness exposed when
individuals have broad and unmonitored administrative access to the
most sensitive capability in IT.”
Security Lapses by the Numbers
- Every day, another company falls prey
to a costly data breach. Often, these victims believe they have the
correct security practices in place, yet they become pre-identified
for attack or for easily exploitable weaknesses, both from inside,
and without.
- Despite 855 reported incidents and 174
million compromised records in 20121 alone, organizations are
struggling to defend their perimeter against these new-world
criminals.
- A survey of 150 senior IT
decision-makers conducted on behalf of Dell’s Quest Software
revealed that:
- Forty-six respondents have more than
100 privileged accounts in their organizations.
- More than half of the respondents (53
percent) have more than 10 administrators who must access any of
those accounts. More than a quarter of those (27 percent) share the
passwords among 10 or more administrators.
- Almost two-thirds of respondents do not
have a high level of confidence that they can track administrative
activity performed with shared credentials back to the individual
administrator who performed them.
*Offers subject to change, not combinable with all other offers.
Taxes, shipping, handling and other fees apply. Limit 5 discounted
units or promotional items per customer. Dell reserves right to
cancel orders arising from pricing or other errors.
1 Verizon 2012 Data BREACH Investigations Report
Supporting Resources:
- Quest Software, Inc.:
http://www.quest.com/
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http://www.quest.com/newsroom/
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- TechValidate Research: http://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/quest-iam
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