Benefits and features
Benefits
Cloakware Password Authority™ benefits organizations through the four "A's" of effective privileged password management:
Assess your identity management security risks
- Through integration with third-party solutions such as SailPoint, attain 100% coverage of discovering, assessing and eliminating identity management risks throughout the entire password life-cycle.
Automate your password change process
- Cut IT administration costs across the enterprise and increase service levels by eliminating maintenance windows and outages associated with manual password changes.
Assure audit compliance
- Assure compliance with Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) requirements and organizational policies for password management.
- Assure business continuity while under regulatory pressure to manage your privileged passwords.
- Assure operational continuity and service-level agreements (SLAs) in the wake of network outages, network latency, disasters, and insider threats arising from mergers, downsizing and outsourcing.
Audit password-related activity
- Audit all password-related activity through syslog-enabled aggregation, correlation, monitoring, notification, alerts, and reporting.
Features
Scalability - can protect up to millions of credentials
Cloakware Password Authority is the only privileged password management solution architected from the ground up to meet the demanding requirements of large global IT operations. Scalable, flexible and enterprise-ready, it can manage millions of credentials for applications and administrators alike across multi-site, heterogeneous environments. Password Authority’s push technology simplifies the delivery of password updates to systems and custom applications across large distributed operations.
Integrate virtually any back-end process
The server-based component architecture and extensible connector technology allows you to integrate virtually any back-end process. Out of the box, Password Authority supports a wide variety of common datacenter systems such as databases, servers and routers. Easy to use templates make it easy to add plug-and-play support for other systems. Learn more about platform support.
Enterprise-grade, high-availability reliability
Password Authority is designed with enterprise-grade "five-nines" reliability in mind. It supports high-availability techniques such as load balancing, clustering, failover/failback, data replication and verification, multi-site deployment, multi-homed access and secure local-caching to ensure that credentials are available when they are needed.
Security through comprehensive encryption and software protection techniques
Password Authority leverages Cloakware’s deep expertise in encryption and software protection techniques to ensure that credentials remain protected at every stage of their use. Critical information like passwords, keys and business logic are protected while on disk, in memory and on the network. Risk mitigation is all about applying the appropriate security techniques to address the threats that have been identified against your systems. Password Authority was designed to address the Insider Threat. Password Authority employs many layers of defense and many security techniques not available in competitive offerings, including data and control flow transformations to help protect against both static and dynamic analysis attacks.
> Learn more about Cloakware's encryption and software protection techniques.
On top of this secure infrastructure, Password Authority ensures that only authorized applications and administrators can access sensitive credentials through a least-privilege approach. Role-based authentication and grouping capabilities ensure that each Cloakware Password Authority administrator’s span-of-control is customizable to their job function. Separation of duties and delegation of authority are achieved as a result, with staff and contractors receiving only the access they need to perform their tasks. Identity-based authentication of unattended applications ensures that application scope-of-access can be controlled through flexible yet granular policies.
Comprehensive reporting and auditing
Regulatory auditors are becoming more sophisticated and are demanding ever more details about your operations. Password Authority gives you the detailed information you need to prove password compliance and ensure best practices. Activity logging and reporting data are at your fingertips and also available in standard syslog format. You can easily extend your analysis with third-party aggregation, correlation, monitoring, notification, and alerting tools to help prevent fraud, data breaches and misuse of corporate data.
Extensive workflows and designed for usability
Role-based tasks and workflows are presented in a thoughtfully-designed Web browser interface that enables even novice or occasional users of Password Authority to manage passwords efficiently and confidently. All functions are also accessible through a CLI and JAVA API to enable integration with custom scripts and applications. Detailed online documentation helps users find answers quickly.
- Best Practices Guide to Privileged Password Management
- Attaining FISMA compliance
- Attaining PCI compliance
- Attaining SOX compliance
- Attaining HIPAA compliance
- Attaining FERC compliance