Organizations today face evolving challenges in privileged access due to changing business needs, IT use cases, and digital transformation. For our client, with a distributed data center architecture spanning Mumbai and Delhi, managing privileged access across critical servers connected by IPsec VPN posed significant challenges.

Distributed Architecture Management

The critical servers spread across two locations were connected through IPsec VPN, which posed a significant challenge. This created a need for a unified governance system to maintain centralized control over the distributed infrastructure.

Privileged Access Control

The organization faced difficulties managing the numerous identities requiring access to critical Windows servers. This created an urgent need for a robust system to validate and govern privileged accounts across multiple systems and applications, ensuring proper access controls were maintained.

Credential Security

The security of privileged credentials posed a major challenge, as the organization needed to protect passwords and keys for administrative, service, and application accounts. This required implementing a secure mechanism to randomize, vault, and manage these sensitive credentials without risking compromise.

Access Monitoring and Audit

Comprehensive monitoring of privileged access emerged as a crucial challenge. The organization needed to ensure that every instance of privileged access to target systems was properly managed, monitored, and audited to maintain security and compliance standards.

Digital Transformation Risks

The ongoing digital transformation and evolving IT use cases introduced new security vulnerabilities. This created a need for enhanced security features to address various threats, including insider threats, third-party risks, and sophisticated cyber-attacks that came with the changing technological landscape.

Regulatory Compliance

The organization needed to implement comprehensive security measures that would satisfy various IT standards and regulations while maintaining operational efficiency. This required a delicate balance between security controls and business functionality.

SOLUTIONS

Securing Privileged Access with ARCON | PAM

ARCON PAM emerged as a scalable architecture and comprehensive tool to address privileged access challenges. Integrating both DC in Mumbai and DR in Delhi, the solution leveraged dedicated App, DB, and GW environments, seamlessly replicated using HP SimpliVity technology, ensuring robust governance and reliability.

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ARCON | PAM provides a centralized engine for controlling and managing privileged accounts. It enforces authorization, a crucial component in a multi-layered security posture.

Reducing the Attack Vector

The solution offers the deepest level of granular controls. It helps granting access based on "need-to-know" and "need-to-do" basis - ensuring implementation of the 'least privilege' principle.

Secure Access to enterprise resources

The solution offers core functions to monitor, terminate and record privileged sessions. Ensures authorized privileged transactions on authorized systems with real time threat detection and response.

Ensuring Compliance

The solution provides necessary features and functionalities to vault, fetch, manage, randomize, encrypt and protect credentials such as secrets, SSH keys, tokens, passwords etc.

Fulfilling the audit requirements

The solution proactively secures all databases and applications as every command/ query executed by privileged users is captured for a security assessment.

Administrative Efficiency

It automates the onboarding process and onboards all identities from cloud directories onto PAM systems and even maps the entities with RBAC, using preset rules.

Knowledge Centre

How a European Bank Reduced Insider Risk by 90% with Centralized Privileged Access Control