Power Broker
Every server running in your IT environment needs an account, and every account requires privileges. Many organizations take inadequate steps in managing privileged accounts – leaving them vulnerable to attack and opening the door to potentially devastating data breaches. Today, most breaches start with people installing something they shouldn’t, connecting to somewhere they shouldn’t, or accessing data they shouldn’t. What does all of this have in common? Privilege misuse and abuse. When users need elevated privileges on a Unix or Linux server, security admins often turn to free tools like Super User Do, or Sudo (“soo-doo”). Sudo enables privileged access without exposing the root password. But it has flaws. Like limited granularity, lack of data integrity and no log security. Its policies typically need to be managed on each server, making it hard to lock down and prone to tampering. With this ad-hoc tool, it’s virtually impossible to maintain security and compliance
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