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July 15, 2013

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PCI DSS Requirement 8 requires that organizations must be able to identify and log all user and administrative access to information systems and applications containing credit card and personally identifiable information. In addition, environments must also have a unique ID for every individual that will have computer access to these systems. This simple requirement can be a daunting task for any organization to implement if they have a combination of authentication stores to manage across Windows, Linux, UNIX, and OS X. And, the verification process or checks and balances needed to manage this requirement can also stymy an organization if local accounts exist, as well. To handle this requirement, and implement best practices within any organization, BeyondTrust has a unique platform built around assessments, policy, and reporting to manage this requirement end to end. First, BeyondTrust offers Retina in discover mode for all of our privileged identity solutions. Whether it is PowerBroker UNIX and Linux, PowerBroker for Windows, or PowerBroker PasswordSafe, Retina can discover all of the user accounts within your environment and document their membership. Below is a sample from the Retina CS Threat Management Console that illustrates this for a single host: voyager.user-accounts Next, we must find a way to manage multiple authentication stores. For this problem, the simplest method is actually the best method; consolidate them to one directory. In most organizations, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the primary vehicle for user account management. However, managing accounts and systems across platforms with AD is not a trivial function and native operating system tools are just flat out lacking to properly meet the requirements. BeyondTrust, however, has a solution for this in the form of PowerBroker Identity Services. PowerBroker Identity Services allows you to integrate your Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X servers with Microsoft Active Directory. The solution allows all of your assets, regardless of platform to be managed by computer and user in one central location; Active Directory. Non-Windows systems joined to the domain, appear as assets in AD, and allow users to authenticate locally via AD for system resources. This allows users to manage with their unique traits on those systems too. This is illustrated below: linuxserversproperties This solves the problem of multiple authentication stores and ensures system access can be controlled to individual user credentials. This coupled with the auditing capabilities of Retina ensures that no generic or rogue accounts exist either. Next, we need to solve the final problem; logging, reporting, and verification of credentialed access. BeyondTrust solves this problem with PowerBroker UNIX and Linux and/or PowerBroker for Windows. These two Privileged Identity Management (PIM) solutions allow for administrative control to systems and applications, and log all of their data to the Retina CS Threat Management Console for reporting to meet the final requirement. To illustrate this, below is a screenshot from Retina CS that provides details regarding the user, application, and privileges granted: retinacs-smartgroups This translates into a wide variety of reports can that manage PCI requirements directly for the issues at hand; especially for non-Windows systems: reports-database compliance-reports-inactive-users BeyondTrust has a unique capability to solve the requirements within the PCI DSS and many other regulatory compliance initiatives. The simple collection, monitoring, and verification of user accounts, systems, and applications can be a monumental task if the environment uses multiple platforms, authentication services, and has multiple administrators to manage operations. The technology we offer can do this and so much more including vulnerability management and password vaulting to ensure strict control of administrative and system access. For more information, please click here. Our technology has the answers to your information technology questions.
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Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer, BeyondTrust

Morey J. Haber is the Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has authored three books: Privileged Attack Vectors, Asset Attack Vectors, and Identity Attack Vectors. He is a founding member of the industry group Transparency in Cyber, and in 2020 was elected to the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) Executive Advisory Board. Morey currently oversees BeyondTrust security and governance for corporate and cloud based solutions and regularly consults for global periodicals and media. He originally joined BeyondTrust in 2012 as a part of the eEye Digital Security acquisition where he served as a Product Owner and Solutions Engineer since 2004. Prior to eEye, he was Beta Development Manager for Computer Associates, Inc. He began his career as Reliability and Maintainability Engineer for a government contractor building flight and training simulators. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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