As smart cities adopt advanced tech, securing interconnected systems remains a challenge. India's 2015 Smart Cities initiative aims to enhance infrastructure, security, and quality of life. With real-time data from smart bins and traffic sensors, securing these networks from cyber threats is crucial.

User Accountability

The Smart City needed to establish clear accountability for who was accessing their IT systems and ensure every administrative access was properly tracked and managed through a secure gateway.

Access Control

Required implementing fine-grained access control based on the principle of "need-to-know" and "need-to-do" basis, especially for managing both internal users and third-party users and IT administrators.

Authentication Security

Needed to ensure that every privileged access to target systems was properly secured and authenticated using robust authentication mechanisms.

Privileged Credential Protection

Required secure storage and management of privileged passwords and credentials to prevent password abuse and unauthorized access.

Real-time Session Monitoring

Needed capability to monitor privileged activities in real-time to reduce potential attack vectors, with logging of all user activities in both video and text formats.

Audit Trail Management

Required comprehensive audit trails and reporting capabilities for all privileged activities to enable analysis and informed decision-making about privilege management.

SOLUTIONS

ARCON PAM: Empowering Smart City Security

ARCON PAM (Privileged Access Management) provided a comprehensive security solution by implementing rule-based access control and fine-grained policies for privileged accounts while enabling seamless monitoring of privileged user activities across the Smart City's infrastructure.

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Unified Access Control

Implements One Admin Control as a policy engine to authorize access, providing a secure gateway to target devices and enabling centralized management of privileged users.

Customer Identity and Access Management

Applies fine-grained restrictions on privileged users through server-wise, group-wise, and user-wise command filtering, especially useful for controlling third-party access.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Secures privileged access through native software-based One-Time Password (OTP) authentication and integration with third-party solutions like Gemalto for biometric authentication.

Password Vault Security

Implements an electronic vault using AES-256 bit encryption with additional proprietary encryption for storing privileged passwords, featuring release request workflow and secure emergency password retrieval.

Real-Time Monitoring Dashboard

Provides real-time monitoring of all privileged activities, logging every user action on target systems in both video and text formats to reduce attack vectors.

Comprehensive Audit System

Delivers customized reporting, comprehensive audit logs, and threat analytics to help the security team make informed decisions about privileged activities.