IT teams face ever-increasing demands to quickly enable users to do their jobs more efficiently and innovate to reduce risk and drive competitive advantages. Nevertheless, a sizable portion of the typical IT budget remains dedicated to the maintenance of existing systems and applications. Consequently, IT leaders often lack the resources they need to meet ever-changing business requirements. As organizations...

According to Forrester Research, at least half of IT organizations are currently using DevOps to increase the speed and efficiency of application development and deployment. Due to the dynamic nature of DevOps, privileged account credentials, encryption keys, and other “secrets” are rapidly proliferating throughout the IT infrastructure. Many of these secrets are stored in code repositories and cloud environments...

The number of privileged accounts has grown rapidly in recent years as organizations have adopted DevOps practices. DevOps teams constantly create hosts, machines, and systems, each of which has one or more privileged accounts associated with it. They also use a wide array of continuous integration and delivery tools and process scripts that also contain passwords, encryption keys, and...

It is well known that the 2013 Target data breach was the result of a compromised third-party vendor. Attackers sent a phishing email to a refrigeration company that did business with Target and had access to some of Target’s computer systems. At least one user fell for the phishing email, causing malware to be installed on the company’s systems....

Federal agencies face the same security threats as private-sector organizations, as well as a heightened risk of attack by state-sponsored cybercriminals. In addition to following security best practices, federal agencies must adhere to laws, directives, and guidance that mandate various cybersecurity controls. Central to many of these regulations is a requirement for robust authentication and authorization of users attempting...

The typical enterprise has an ever-increasing number of privileged accounts to manage across on-premises and cloud environments. These privileged accounts extend outside the organization to contractors, business partners, and other third parties. Holders of privileged credentials access systems and data from a wide range of devices and diverse locations. Many systems and applications also use privileged credentials to access...