Why PCI DSS Compliance is Impossible without Privileged Management

One Identity Privileged Account Management (PAM) solutions Filling the gap in applicationbased access management One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions is deployed on a secure, hardened appliance and can be combined with Safeguard for Privileged Passwords to hide account passwords from privileged users. 3 Using the group permissions and role-based management features of business applications that accept or store cardholder data is not enough to secure your data and ensure compliance with PCI DSS requirements. The cardholder data environment (CDE) comprises not only your primary business applications, but also support systems such as file servers, mail servers, backup servers, development and test servers, and network devices. This is also extended to underlying platforms, including databases, operating systems, hypervisors and VM hosts. These system components, as defined in the DSS, provide access to protected information and sometimes even cardholder data, making them subject to PCI DSS assessment as well. One Identity privileged account management solutions – such as One Identity Safeguard – enable you to continuously manage privileged access to CDE system components that lack privileged access management, thereby filling a fundamental security gap in traditionally weak infrastructure controls. While these solutions will not replace your network monitoring tools, when regularly used as part of an information system security program, they can greatly reduce a host of unauthorized access and system changes and prevent numerous policy violations before they happen. Automating privileged account management and streamlining compliance With One Identity PAM solutions, your organization can substantially automate privileged account management, including requests, reviews, approvals, denials and revocations, to help ensure your compliance with PCI DSS controls and industry best practices. Moreover, you can easily demonstrate your organization’s compliance by quickly responding to assessor and internal audit inquiries using customizable, out-of-the-box reports. You can monitor and report on privileged activities, including those occurring during sensitive time periods or outside the course of normal business operations. Plus, One Identity PAM solutions provide a separate database of activity records that you can use to substantiate policy violations to support personnel sanctions related to the security of information systems. By enabling controlled use of administrative privileges, ensuring controlled access based on need-to-know, and providing detailed recordings of discrete activities performed in controlled environments, One Identity PAM solutions help you control privileged access to production operating environments and also ensure that critical access controls are applied to security architectures in all phases of the system development lifecycle. By providing foundational IT security measures, these solutions enable you to adopt robust privileged management and monitoring practices that augment and, to some extent, preempt standard user activity monitoring, malware and intrusion detection controls. One Identity PAM solutions include Safeguard for Privileged Passwords, Safeguard for Privileged Sessions and Privilege Manager for Sudo. Automate and secure privileged accounts. One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Passwords enables you to automate, control and secure the entire process of granting administrators the credentials necessary to perform their duties. Deployed on a secure, hardened appliance, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords provides a compliant and efficient way to control these very powerful accounts, ensuring that privileged access is granted according to established policies with appropriate approvals, that all actions are fully audited and tracked, and that passwords are changed immediately upon the 4 expiration of their authorized time limits. To further reduce your security exposure, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords replaces the privileged passwords embedded in applications with programmatic calls that dynamically retrieve secured, policy-compliant account credentials required for the applications to talk to each other or to databases. Simplify control and monitoring of privileged access. With One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions, you can issue privileged access for a specific period or session to administrators, remote vendors and high-risk users with full recording and replay that enables auditing and compliance. You also benefit from having a single point of control from which you can authorize connections, limit access to specific resources, allow certain commands to be run, view active connections, record all activity, alert if connections exceed pre-set time limits, and terminate connections. One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions is deployed on a secure, hardened appliance and can be combined with Safeguard for Privileged Passwords to hide account passwords from privileged users. Centrally manage and report on the sudoer policy ile. Take your privileged account management through sudo to the next level. One Identity Privilege Manager for Sudo, part of One Identity Privileged Access Suite for Unix, enhances sudo by enabling you to centrally manage sudo and the sudoers policy files with a single system for reporting on all access rights and activities. Privilege Manager for Sudo also provides keystroke logging, complete with search and playback capabilities, for in-depth auditing and compliance requirements.
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