Cyber-Ark
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About Cyber-Ark
Cyber-Ark Software is harnessing the power of Vaulting Technology to provide solutions for securing and managing highly-sensitive information. These solutions create safe havens that allow enterprises to secure, manage and share information both over the Internet between discrete enterprises or within a single network to manage highly-sensitive information.
Today's enterprises encounter daily examples of why securing the entire network is an impossible task. An enterprise network is inherently very complex and includes a myriad of devices, platforms, applications and operating systems. Accordingly, they face a long list of potential security risks within the network. Most security solutions today are focused on solving discrete security problems across the perimeter of the network. Point products such as Firewalls, VPN's, and Intrusion Detection solutions are examples of this approach to network security.
Cyber-Ark's Enterprise Password Vault enables organisations to secure, manage, automatically change and log all activities associated with all types of Privileged Passwords such as administrator on a Windows server, Root on a UNIX server, Cisco Enable on a Cisco device, as well as embedded passwords found in applications and scripts.
Cyber-Ark's Inter-Business Vault creates an "external" Safe Haven that can be shared between discrete enterprises over the Internet, while the Network Vault is used within the corporate boundaries to "Vault" Critical information. Both products provide unparalleled level of security, performance, and auditing.
What is a Digital Vault?
A digital vault secures data from end-to-end with multiple layers of security, including Encryption (while in transit and at rest), Firewall, Authentication, Access Control, and Auditing.
Cyber-Ark's approach is much like that of a physical vault at a bank. We create an electronic vault, or safe haven, in the network. Regardless of the overall network or security surrounding it, the safe haven is extremely secure. At the same time, Cyber-Ark's unique approach makes this information more accessible-eliminating the traditional tradeoff between accessibility and security.
Today, many companies continue to pour millions of dollars into traditional perimeter security solutions with limited effect. Security breaches and their financial impact continue to rise. Statistically, over 70% of all these network breaches originate from within. Instead of trying to protect every facet of an enterprise network, Cyber-Ark's vaulting solutions create safe havens-distinct areas for storing, protecting and sharing the most critical business information. Cyber-Ark's solution provides everything needed to protect and share information across the extended enterprise.
Cyber-Ark Products
Sensitive Document Vault is a feature-rich secure repository and sharing platform for securing, storing and managing your organisation's most highly senstive information. Sensitive Document Vault places your most important files into discrete vaults that can be viewed via a web-enables interface. With more than ten layers of security working together, these Digital Vaults create an impenetrable electronic vault, or safe haven, in a network.
The Inter-Business Vault enables the creation of secure instant wide area networks (WANs) for connecting enterprises with partners, customers and sub-contractors over the Internet - enabling them to exchange information as if they have deployed a shared WAN, but without actually doing so.
Cyber-Ark's Enterprise Password Vault enables organizations to secure, manage, automatically change and log all activities associated with all types of Privileged Passwords such as administrator on a Windows server, Root on a UNIX server, Cisco Enable on a Cisco device, as well as embedded passwords found in applications and scripts.
Cyber-Ark Product Families
Cyber-Ark Software is harnessing the power of Vaulting Technology to provide solutions for securing and managing highly-sensitive information. These solutions create safe havens that allow enterprises to secure, manage and share information both over the Internet between discrete enterprises or within a single network to manage highly-sensitive information.
Cyber-Ark Industry News
Comerica selects Cyber-Ark Valuting Solutions Companies to Deliver “User-friendly Security” that Automates and Safeguards Confidential Communications with Thousands of Treasury Management Customers over the Internet. Detroit and Dedham, Mass., — May 5, 2003 — Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) and Cyber-Ark® Software Inc. today announced that Comerica’s Treasury Management Services has selected Cyber-Ark’s Vaulting Technology™ to streamline and protect Internet-based communications with thousand......
[more] Computer passwords 'up for grabs' Half of IT managers employed by large-sized companies believe it would be relatively easy to gain the core passwords for their computer systems. That is the warning of a survey by IT security firm Cyber-Ark. It said that 10% of firms never changed their central administrative passwords. A further 5% did not even bother altering the manufacturer's default password that came with the system. The survey also found one IT boss who kept all passwords on his mobile p......
[more] Cyber-Ark and Mideye look at mobile alliance Vendor and mobile security specialist combine as to get more partners on board in 2006 Security vendor Cyber-Ark has joined forces with mobile security vendor Mideye to offer two-factor authentication through a mobile phone.
According to Cyber-Ark, which specialises in vaulting technology, the collaboration will allow its channel to revisit customers and offer the technology as a bolt-on, as well as appealing to new customers, particularly in the e-g......
[more] Cyber-Ark and Mideye look at mobile alliance Vendor and mobile security specialist combine as to get more partners on board in 2006 Security vendor Cyber-Ark has joined forces with mobile security vendor Mideye to offer two-factor authentication through a mobile phone.
According to Cyber-Ark, which specialises in vaulting technology, the collaboration will allow its channel to revisit customers and offer the technology as a bolt-on, as well as appealing to new customers, particularly in the e-g......
[more] Four in ten security staffers write down passwords early 40 percent of IT professionals store important passwords on paper, according to a new report. The survey of nearly 200 IT professionals at this year's Infosecurity Europe exhibition in London, found that 38 percent of respondents wrote passwords to critical systems on bits of paper.The study, commissioned by security company Cyber-Ark, found that 22 percent of respondents said colleagues kept passwords on Post-It notes while another 14 per......
[more] Cyber-Ark opens Enterprise Password Vault Security vendor Cyber-Ark has launched an appliance version of its digital vaulting software in response to channel demand.The appliance - Enterprise Password Vault - will simplify deployment and shorten implementation time, according to the vendor.Calum Macleod, vice-president of regional sales EMEA at Cyber-Ark, told CRN: "We have seen very strong growth this year, but the solution has always been software based. Our channel partners told u......
[more] Cyber-Ark announces Enterprise Password Vault 4.0 Cyber-Ark Software announced the release of the latest edition of its flagship product, Enterprise Password Vault version 4.0. EPV 4.0 delivers a wide array of vital capabilities designed from the ground up for IT Professionals who focus on securing, managing, updating and logging all Privileged Passwords throughout an enterprise, whether these shared, administrative or super-user passwords exist in routers, servers, databases, workstations or a......
[more] The most common hacker is probably sitting in the cubicle next to you I'm often asked: what's the most common type of hacker and attack? Over time I've discovered that the general public holds a somewhat romantic image of hackers. One mental picture involves an emaciated young man in a poverty-stricken corner of the world. Greasy-haired and red-eyed, he types late into the night on an old TRS-80 workstation, trying desperately to get your American Express account number for nefarious purposes.A......
[more] Enterprises wasting millions updating privileged passwords Typical enterprise spends more than $500,000 each year, research claims The costs associated with the manual updating of privileged passwords are becoming "astronomical", according to new research from security firm Cyber-Ark and industry analyst IDC.The companies estimate that the typical enterprise spends more than $500,000 a year simply maintaining and updating privileged passwords.Privileged passwords are the non-personal,......
[more] IT admins are security risk, says research Workers who sabotage corporate systems are almost always IT workers suffering from some form of mental derangement, according to recent research. That is the conclusion of the US military in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) programme, which together analysed insider cyber-crimes across a variety of critical industry sectors. The research suggests that potential troublem......
[more] Cyber-Ark’s CTO to Present at First Annual Data Protection Summit Attendees Will Learn How to Secure, Manage and Track All Activities Associated With Privileged Passwords – the Most Powerful Passwords within their Organization Cyber-Ark Software, the leader in Privileged Password Management, has been selected to participate in the first-annual Data Protection Summit. Nir Gertner, CTO at Cyber-Ark, will discuss the "Six Steps to Privileged Password Management" on Thursday, March 15, 20......
[more] Cyber-Ark Joins Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem Cyber-Ark Software today announced that its award-winning solution for Privileged Password Management (PPM), Enterprise Password Vault, is now part of the Oracle® Extended Identity Management Ecosystem. Joint Cyber-Ark and Oracle customers can now benefit from a unified identity management solution for managing and provisioning both personal and shared privileged accounts. As we enter the third year of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations,......
[more] Today’s Biggest IT Security Menace and 6 Ways to Fight It What is today's biggest IT security threat? IT itself, according to recent reports from IDC and Carnegie Mellon/DoD. To begin with, IDC research finds that enterprise companies rank insider sources as their top security threat (Source: "Privileged Password Management," Sally Hudson, IDC). In addition, research from Carnegie Mellon University for the Department of Defense (DoD) finds that when it comes to insider attacks, 86% of......
[more] Risk management: Growing pains As security becomes a board-level concern, those in charge of it can no longer hide behind the doors of the IT department. If you're a chief information or security officer, chances are your job has got, well, just a little bit harder over the past couple of years. Not so long ago, being a CIO or CSO was something of a nice little number, according to Calum MacLeod, European director of Cyber-Ark Software. "You moved upstairs, got the mahogany desk and the Mer......
[more] Companies warned over Internet data Security firm Cyber-Ark has warned companies not to be complacent about the data they allow to flow over the internet, after the European Union announced an investigation into Google for retaining data from its search systems for too long.The EU's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of officials that advises on privacy policy, asked Google last week to justify the retention of data on its users' internet searches for up to two years.Google's rec......
[more] Confidential data lost on unprotected USB Stick The security risks associated with storing personal data on a USB stick were highlighted last week following the apparent theft of an unprotected stick at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. According to a report on the E-Health Insider newswire, USB sticks are widely used by junior doctors in the hospitals trust as a means of storing confidential patient data. Normally, says the newswire, the data is protected using encryption, but it quot......
[more] Monster.com waited days before informing users of breach The employment website Monster.com, which suffered a huge malware attack this week, waited five days before informing its users that their personal data had been hacked, an executive at the company has revealed. Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at the New York-based firm, told the Reuters news agency yesterday that the company first learned of the hacking attack on 17 August, when security experts at Symante......
[more] Stolen Gap laptop exposes 800,000 job applicants Clothing giant Gap has admitted that a notebook containing unencrypted details of around 800,000 job applicants has been stolen from one its vendors.Applicants who registered for positions at Gap or any of its Old Navy or Banana Republic stores in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada between July 2006 and June 2007 have now potentially had their personal information exposed.The data could include Social Security numbers and employment history.Gap has s......
[more] Cyber-Ark updates password manager tool Cyber-Ark has updated its tool for managing administrator passwords in enterprise environments, featuring enhanced capabilities to remove hard-coded passwords in applications.Enterprise Password Vault (EPV) 4.5, available immediately, provides a higher level of automation and integration when managing group accounts such as those for administrative tasks, Cyber-Ark said. This version also adds support for removing hard-coded application passwords in WebSp......
[more] Geforce cracks Windows passwords Experts call for more data encryption after Russian software uses graphics processor to break into Windows Security firms warned today that laptop hard disks should be encrypted as a matter of urgency following the release of a utility that uses graphics cards to crack Windows passwords.An eight-character Windows password can be cracked in less than five days using version 2.0 of Moscom-based Elmscroft's Distributed Password Recovery System in conjunction with an......
[more] Cyber-Ark warns firms of the need to stop transferring their data by CD-ROM as details of 15,000 pension holders goes astray. Cyber-Ark, a company specializing in protecting and moving sensitive data for companies and their customers, has highlighted the need for companies to stop transferring sensitive data by "pony express technology" following the loss of a CD-ROM containing details of around 15,000 Standard Life pension holders. The data on the CD-ROM - which was lost in transit b......
[more] Data loss a global endemic as Canadian Health Agency admits to Major Hack File this one under the " There Goes Your Personal Info" category... News just in from Canada confirms that database disasters are not just confined to UK government agencies, after sensitive patient information has been accessed by persons unknown on a Canadian health agency computer. "Police in Newfoundland are reported to be investigating to what degree hackers have accessed medical information - includin......
[more] More data protection breaches show need for root and branch review Manufacturers need to constantly review their data protection procedures, warns digital vaulting and data encryption specialist Cyber-Ark as news of another pair of CD-ROMs going walkabout from a UK government agency emerged over the weekend. "The News of the World has revealed that a former contractor for the Department for Work and Pensions had two CD-ROMs containing details of thousands of benefit claimants in her posses......
[more] Does Californian bank scam highlights need for data vaulting? This is the question that security firm Cyber-Ark asks referring to the case of a California bank employee who sold his employer's computers on eBay - and even pawned them to raise cash - highlights the need for digital data vaulting security within companies of all sizes. "This case illustrates that [sic] good old employee theft is yet another security risk facing organisations," said Mark Fullbrook, Cyber-Ark's UK Directo......
[more] Sunderland Council use Digital Safes to tackle crime Sunderland City Council has installed Cyber-Ark’s Inter-Business Vault with the help of Global Secure Systems (GSS), to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and so improve the lives of its citizens. Information Sharing and Assessment (ISA) is a multi-agency project that allows all the services within Sunderland; such as the blue light services, the council, drug alcohol in action teams etc., to share information and work together closely. U......
[more] Global Secure Systems supplies security tools (including Cyber-Ark) to protect both the corporate gateway (particularly the Internet, or other external network connections), and the individual PC (including the roaming laptop user and the desktop attached to the corporate network).
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