1.1 Main Features of Privileged Account Manager

Privileged Account Manager has several features that makes Privileged Account Management simple and robust. Following are the main features of Privileged Account Manager:

Manage Privileged Credentials

  • Managing the Privileged accounts

  • Managing policies based on roles.

  • Management of SSH key and other types of keys

Monitor Privilege Sessions

  • Monitoring the Real-time activities of a user using a privileged account

  • Video recording, or Keystroke replay

  • Geographical control of the audit data using Audit zones

  • Color coding for the risks based on the specified risk level

  • Audit Zone for restricting and reducing network traffic

  • Live View of session and keystroke capture option for SSH Web Relay and Remote Desktop Relay sessions

  • Compliance auditing and Reports

Integration

  • Integration with ArcSight Intelligence

  • Integration with Identity Manager

  • Integration with Access Manager

  • Integration with Advanced Authentication

  • Multi-tenancy support with the integration of NetIQ Cloud Manager

Control Privileged Access

  • Limiting access to a system or virtual resources using Access Control. This involves a list of permissions and the users to whom these permissions apply.

  • Controlling administrator access to the Linux, UNIX, Windows, database and application servers

  • Terminating a suspicious remote session and if required, blocking users from further initiating the session

  • Active Directory Bridging - User authentication and access control based on user identity and group membership in the Microsoft Active Directory

  • Secure Credential Vault which holds the credentials of all the critical servers and applications

  • Multi-Factor Authentication and access control using:

    • Advanced Authentication

    • Third-party RADIUS supported Multi-Factor Authentication products

  • Easy policy definition using policy templates

  • Syslog collector which can send critical data from various events to the SIEM system

  • AAPM support using REST APIs

  • Restricted access to user’s details based on the type of Administrator