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Dell Extends Leadership in Privileged Account Management with Unified Security and Management Solution SetROUND ROCK, Texas --(Business Wire)-- As reports of corporate data breaches regularly surface, Dell (News - Alert) Software is enabling IT to drive connected security across the organization, offering protection from the inside and the outside. Today, Dell announced the release of Quest One Privileged Access Suite for Unix, which combines Active Directory bridge and root delegation technologies to combat against poorly managed privileged accounts with a single, intuitive interface, to help protect the organization from the inside out. Hackers increasingly are mounting targeted, purposeful attacks on company infrastructure. Reports abound of disgruntled employees who misuse their privileged access to steal sensitive company data and customer information, or cause havoc to the organization's computer system. Unix systems, by their nature, have the potential for catastrophic security lapses, particularly in the hands of an unhappy employee. Organizations often have many Unix and Linux servers, each functioning independently and requiring its own management of the shared root account. Not only does this result in a disconnected collection of inconsistent controls that rely heavily on error-prone manual processes, but it also means that access to the root account for each system is gained through a password often shared among IT staff. News Facts:
John Milburn, Executive Director, Identity and Access Management Solutions, Dell Software "Poorly managed privileged accounts present one of the biggest security threats to an organization. This means that IT must broaden its security defense beyond a single inflection point, to drive protection from both the outside in and the inside out. The Quest One Privileged Access Suite for Unix offers a complete range of authentication, authorization and administration capabilities for Unix/Linux access that affords enterprise protection from the inside out." Tim Westcott, R&D Director, Preventia "The Quest PAM solution is at the core of security solutions that we provide to our enterprise clients in the financial sector," said Tim Westcott, R&D Director at Preventia. "Many of the UK's largest financial organizations rely on our expertise and knowledge, and Quest has been our choice for clients requiring a comprehensive, world-class privileged access management solution for years." Scott Crawford, Enterprise Management Associates "When incidents traceable to poor administrative access management occur, organizations should note that auditors, investigators and enforcers will be aware that privileged access management solutions exist to mitigate such risks. Today's PAM solutions can address these gaps, but they can deliver much more. By supporting a more disciplined approach to IT control with a movement towards governance, they can also help organizations improve IT performance and reduce support costs by closing one of the most readily managed gaps of all: the weakness exposed when individuals have broad and unmonitored administrative access to the most sensitive capability in IT." Security Lapses by the Numbers
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