CyberArk Use in Enterprise

Privileged accounts are essential in the enterprise, in which they represent people, applications, cloud environments, IoT devices, things, bots, etc. These privileged accounts are the most significant vulnerability in an enterprise due to the enhancing nature of today’s business; an application solely requires privileged access for a limited duration. In this comprehensive blog, let’s see how CyberArk helps the enterprise.

Table of Contents

CyberArk Privileged Access Management
CyberArk Application Access Manager
CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
Benefits of the integration with CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
Companies using CyberArk

Being a protective tool, CyberArk is used in industries such as energy, healthcare, financial services, retail, etc. Storing and maintaining data by rotating the credentials of all the privileged accounts, CyberArk is used to defend against malware and hacking threats efficiently.

CyberArk Privileged Access Management

CyberArk’s Privileged Access Manager is a next-generation solution for managing all privileged access accounts required to secure both the applications and sensitive programs of the enterprise. It helps the organization support its users on data and application interfaces.

CyberArk enables organizations to secure, provision, manage, control, and monitor all types of privileged activities, such as:

• Root on a UNIX server
• Windows Server Administrator
• Embedded passwords in applications and scripts
• Enable on a Cisco device

CyberArk Application Access Manager

CyberArk Application Access Manager provides comprehensive privileged credentials, access, and secret management for applications and non-human identities. For instance, it secures privileged credentials for internally developed traditional applications, containerized applications, and scripts using DevOps techniques.

The following are the key features of CyberArk Application Access Manager:

• Eliminates hard-coded credentials for the applications and rotates the credentials based on the password policy
• Enhances deployment with valid integrations over applications
• Secures all secrets and credentials
• Authenticates containers and applications using cloud-native application attributes and role-based access controls
• Meets the enterprise performance, availability, and scalability requirements
• Integrates with Azure and AWS

CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault

CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, a vital component of the CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Solution (PAM), is designed to create, secure, rotate, and control access to privileged accounts and credentials employed to access systems in an enterprise IT ecosystem.

CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault enables enterprises to understand the scope of privileged account risks and prevents malicious accounts or unauthorized access. It uses a Central Policy Manager (CPM) protocol to perform the password management functions:

• Verify Password: The CPM is used to verify password content on remote devices to ensure that all the devices are synchronized with respective passwords in the Password Vault. If the remote machine password is not synchronized with the password in the Vault, the CPM alerts the user to reconcile the password.
• Reconcile Password: During password verification, the CPM will generate a list of predefined or unsynchronized password errors for reconciling passwords. The unsynchronized passwords are replaced in the Vault and on the remote machine by developing a new password.
• Change Password: The CPM can automatically change the passwords for managed accounts by enabling the Allow Automatic Password Management feature. It generated unique and highly secure passwords by meeting the password generation mechanism and policy.

Enterprise organizations can employ easily adaptable policies and protocols to execute privileged access controls, automate workflows, and rotate passwords at prescribed regular intervals without requiring any manual interventions. It can quickly generate reports to notify that passwords are being changed regularly to maintain the security compliance regulations of the enterprise. CyberArk Password Vault will have enterprise organizations provide safe and secure business operations by maximizing productivity and profitability.

Benefits of the integration with CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault

The following are the essential benefits of CyberArk Application Access Manager integration with the CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault:

• Enterprises can manage secrets and credentials regularly: The integration allows enterprises to implement centralized, policy-based enforcement with rotation and monitoring secrets over mixed development and compute environments. For instance, CyberArk enables enterprises to develop a single control point to manage secrets over cloud-native and DevOps environments.
• Simplified Deployment for developers, security, and operations: With CyberArk Application Access Manager, developers can meet security requirements by using APIs and code to secure secrets and access credentials. The credentials and secrets can be managed and automatically rotated based on the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution policies. The Security team focuses on the central management of secrets through CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, and Developers and DevOps teams can work with the native tools/APIs capabilities of Conjur.
• Organizations get additional value by using the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution: CyberArk customers can benefit from DevOps methodologies and use their technology, policy, and other investments in privileged account security solutions to protect the DevOps environments. With the integration, customers can employ CyberArk Privileged Session Manager for monitoring and isolating sessions in DevOps environments.

The integration includes a new Synchronizer for reproducing secrets from CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault to CyberArk Application Access Manager. It is designed to provide availability and scalability by updating the secrets of the enterprise.

Companies using CyberArk

Over 4,000 companies are using CyberArk, and most of them are found in the United States. The following is the list of companies that are using CuberArk:

• Arrivia
• Bank of America
• Barclays
• Cisco
• Data Inc
• Health First
• Highmark Health
• Lorven Technologies
• TIAA-CREF

CyberArk with InfosecTrain

InfosecTrain is one of the top leading providers of advanced IT security training on Cybersecurity and Information security with certified and experienced instructors. It offers a CyberArk training course for cybersecurity experts to attain the skills required to build, deploy, and configure the CyberArk Privileged Access Management.

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Emaliya Keerthana
Content Writer

“ Emaliya Keerthana working as a Content Writer at InfosecTrain. She likes to explore the latest technology. She writes on emerging IT-related topics and is passionate about sharing her thoughts through blogs. “