PowerBroker Servers for Linux & Unix
Enforce institutional control of your server infrastructure with PowerBroker Servers. Secure your critical Linux and Unix servers through privileged user management and root task delegation. If you require a Sudo replacement, or want to implement greater controls where compliance requires it, PowerBroker Servers can help.
Take Back Control of Your Critical Server Environment
PowerBroker Servers empowers IT organizations to delegate root tasks and authorization on Linux, UNIX, OS X systems without ever disclosing the root password. PowerBroker Servers enables enterprises to efficiently dictate permissions for users down to the most granular level, extending to any command executable – without any impact to productivity or operations.
PowerBroker Servers’ audit-friendly logging and comprehensive reporting helps our customers satisfy their internal and external compliance requirements. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including those with the most demanding regulatory requirements, have chosen PowerBroker Servers as their enterprise alternative to Sudo commands.
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Server Security Lifecycle
Key Benefits
- Accurate baseline for all follow-on assessment activities
- Target identification for least-privilege or other server projects such as consolidation or virtualization
- Creation of server-specific Smart Groups for regular assessments, risk prioritization and reporting
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Provides complete inventory of server assets (approved and rogue)
- Cataloging of full system information (OS, device, applications, services, ports etc. )
- Discovery of local users, groups and privilege data across distributed server environment
Key Benefits
- Proactive identification of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and policy violations
- Threat assessments on servers operating system, applications and configurations
- Custom audits/assessments allow for identification of non-standard assets, software or configurations
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Accurate, actionable data helps drive proper remediation actions, accelerating risk reduction
- Risk scoring streamlines the classification of most at-risk devices
- Intuitive trending data for easy analysis, enabling better security strategy decisions
Key Benefits
- "Operational GPS" directs IT to which actions provide the most risk-reduction benefits
- Automated reporting on compliance efforts creates consistency and accountability, while driving down costs
- Enterprise policy management and reporting
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Least Privilege implementation across the enterprise
- Active Directory bridging across the enterprise
- Robust database auditing
- Non-Microsoft application patching
Key Benefits
- Receive an immediate ‘state of the union’ with regards to your server deployment through Risk Scoring
- Greater efficiency via enterprise-centric capabilities such as role based access, internal auditing, ticketing, and integration with existing infrastructure investments
Key BeyondTrust Capabilities
- Centralized management, reporting and logging
- Role based policy, alert and reporting management
- Virtual Vulnerability Scans on elevated commands and applications
FEATURES & BENEFITS
Secure, Compliant Privilege
Delegation
In a more secure fashion than using Sudo, delegate privileges without disclosing the root password on UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms.
Institutional Control
for User Activity
Flexibly control user activity through fined-grained policies that can invoke any action; from initiating an email approval workflow to validating a help desk ticket
Mature Your Operations
Beyond Sudo
Quickly integrate and secure your existing operations by effortlessly converting your Sudoer files into PowerBroker Server policies with our Sudo converter
Real Time
Tracking
Log all users session activity down to the keystroke level to comply with internal and external mandates, and to better exhibit controls required for compliance
Why BeyondTrust for Server Security
- Quickly meet access/authorization regulations as described in SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, FDCC and FISMA
- Granularly control user access to programs, files, and directories as well as brokering system tasks, without Sudo
- Supports 30 encryption methods for policies, logs, and network traffic, assuring compatibility within virtually any IT infrastructure
- Centralized policy store allows for a single control point for managing user privileges
- Time-stamped logs for every administrative, user-level, and application activity ensures that no suspicious activity goes unnoticed
- Supports flexible integration scenarios with Active Directory and other directory services, from basic authentication enablement to storage and lookup of PowerBroker policy data
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