Dell Software Expands Dell One Identity to Govern Privileged Users

Dell Software Expands Dell One Identity to Govern Privileged Users

·         Integration of Dell’s identity governance and privileged management solutions provides a complete offering that  governs access for all users, regardless of their role or the level of access they need  

·         Colt Technology Services uses Dell’s governance solution to unify identity management, streamline governance for all users, improve performance, and lower operational costs

·         Dell One Identity now enables organisations to effectively balance the objectives of access, security and compliance

 

 

Sydney, AUSTRALIA ─ RSA Conference USA 2014 ─ Feb. 25, 2014 – Dell Softwaretoday announced the release of a new solution that extends Dell One Identity  to govern privileged users who have the most powerful access to an organisation’s most critical systems and information. Using Dell’s solution for privileged governance, companies can get ahead of potential security incidents with a single platform to provision, manage and govern access to all systems for both privileged and everyday users. This solution enables IT to rapidly and comprehensively enhance productivity, while discovering and remediating access issues that could present a significant threat in terms of cost and reputation.

Unmanaged privileged accounts ─ the most powerful users in the organisation ─ are a clear target both for insiders and external attackers, and failure to govern and control privileged identities could result in significant data loss or destruction, malicious or inadvertent damage, fines, and even lawsuits. To determine whether a privileged user should have access to a particular system or resource, it is important to see that user’s entire set of access privileges ─ not just their privileged access. Organisations have implemented solutions to manage privileged users for several years, but these solutions fall short when it comes to providing complete governance. By integrating Dell’s solution for privileged management with its identity governance and administration solution, organisations can close security gaps and streamline provisioning and access governance for all users, regardless of their role or level of access needed.

 

Dell’s Privileged Governance Solution Provides Real-world Approach to Identity Governance

Dell One Identity helps organisations get ahead by removing operational risk while enhancing productivity. The solution set mitigates security risks by controlling and governing access to critical organisational data and applications, eliminating shared credentials, and assigning individual accountability to administrator activity.Dell’s Privileged Governance Solution is a modular, integrated solution that intelligently manages and governs privileged user access to systems by automating the process within a single console.

·         Simplifies privileged governance by enabling organisations to define roles, associated policies, access approval workflows, and periodic attestation of privileged access within the same system

·         Removes the burden of manual attestation by using pre-defined rules to schedule and automatically send recertification requests

·         Automates separation of duties by ensuring a requestor does not have conflicting entitlements before granting access

·         Enhances security by enabling risk assessment for access to privileged accounts

 

Global Security Survey Results Reveal IT Leaders’ Concern about Unknown Internal Threats

The hidden threats that can lurk inside networks, endpoints and devices often are hidden in poorly configured settings or permissions, and can be helped into the network by ineffective data governance, access management and usage policies. These unknown threats come from all perimeters, both external and internal, and can cause deadly damage to the network at a huge cost to the organisation. Dell Software recently released the results of a security survey of more than 1,400 IT executives around the world including 60 Australians. Survey results showed:

·         60 percent of global IT decision leaders surveyed are concerned about internal malicious attacks

·         55 percent said setting policy for information risk management is of high importance in preventing security breaches

·         68 percent said managing, restricting and provisioning/de-provisioning is of high importance in preventing security breaches

·         53 percent said they currently use privileged account management to help detect and/or prevent security breaches

·         40 percent of U.S. respondents cited insider sabotage as the root cause of security breaches

 

Quotes:

John Milburn, executive director, Identity and Access Management, Dell Software

 

“Dell offers an identity vision, strategy and portfolio that span administration and governance, without an undue focus on any single platform or software development environment. Colt came to us because we could solve their problem without compromising security. This underscores the priority we put on really listening to what our customers tell us about their needs, so that we can help them to operate efficiently, and more securely. We are pleased that our new privileged access governance solution fills the gap in the need to fully protect organisations on all perimeters.”

 

Will Markham, security practice lead, Colt Technology Services

“As security threats become ever more creative, we needed to implement new levels of protection against data breaches, and also ensure our solution supported our business growth over the longer term. We came to Dell because they understood our business and could provide the appropriate levels of support, an absolute requirement when undertaking a project of this nature. We now have an improved ability to understand who's doing what, and where they're doing it, coupled with reduced maintenance costs.  We put a lot of pressure on Dell, and they delivered brilliantly.”

Availability:

·         Dell’s Privileged Governance Solution is available to customers who have purchased Identity Manager and Privileged Password Manager or Privileged Session Manager.

·         Dell Software solutions are available through the channel

 

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Contact Information
Media Contact:
Francesca Holt	PPR for Dell	02 9818 9335	fholt@ppr.com.au
Claire Malyon	PPR for Dell	02 9818 0958	cmalyon@ppr.com.au

 

 

 

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