Magix integration has signed an agreement with US-based Lieberman Software to distribute and support its Random Password Manager solution for enterprise and SME companies in South Africa.
“Managing passwords effectively in corporations has become an impossible task,” says Amir Lubashevsky, executive director of Magix Integration. “Administrator passwords are handed out to technical people and are used for logging onto all IT systems when updates, installations or maintenance is required.
“These passwords are quickly compromised as anyone in the IT department uses them. Even if each individual is given a unique password, they are often copied or decrypted by watchers, assuming a frustrated technician does not give it to an annoying user over the phone to resolve a simple issue quickly.”
Random Password Manager resolves this problem quickly and efficiently using randomly generated passwords. The system generates these passwords and only allows access to systems and functionality to authorised people.
“Random Password Manager is a privileged account password management platform that automatically discovers, stores, changes and monitors all local account passwords in cross-platform enterprises,” explains Lubashevsky. “It automatically identifies every place in the network where privileged passwords are used, including services, tasks, applications and databases, and then updates and propagates the changes to the applications and objects that use those credentials.”
With Random Password Manager and Enterprise Random Password Manager, authorised personnel simply log into the target systems with their password. The Lieberman software then verifies them and grants access via the random password propagated to the target. Random Password Manager integrates with Microsoft System Centre, allowing companies to monitor and control all privileged accounts through one centralised management console.
Not only does this limit what can be done on corporate systems, only permitting access to authorised people for specific purposes, it also automatically creates an audit trail, allowing the company to easily determine who did what, where and when. It also assists companies involved with security audits demanded by Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and other compliance regulations by regularly updating local and domain passwords, and logging all changes.
It also prevents privileged passwords from being forgotten, written down and lost, or simply misused. The server-based system grants access to people with the appropriate authority and logs them into the appropriate systems automatically for a specific use. Should privileged personnel leave the company, they can take their password with them and give it to anyone they choose as they will not be able to access any systems.
“Lieberman Software can be applied in organisations of any size that are concerned with securing their IT systems,” says Lubashevsky. “The software removes the burden and risks of having multiple privileged passwords in the hands of personnel where they can easily be compromised.”
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