Privileged and Shared Accounts

Granting and Managing Access to Privileged and Shared Accounts

Super user accounts, including system-defined accounts for operating systems, network devices, and databases are part of every IT infrastructure and sharing these privileged accounts is a required reality.

But managing these accounts with current manual processes is not the answer. It's impossible to account for who is using the shared ID and when, exposing the enterprise to security breaches, privacy risk, and compliance risk. Privileged account passwords are routinely shared by system administrators. Users can steal, change or delete data, and it would be impossible to pinpoint the culprit. Even an inadvertent act can cost an enterprise millions in damages and brand reputation.

Operational efficiency suffers as well. Ensuring all hard-coded passwords are changed in a coordinated fashion places undue burden on the IT staff. And, with this error-prone manual process, the risk of operational failure increases, potentially costing the enterprise millions.

Solution

v-GO Shared Accounts Manager plugs a significant security and compliance hole commonly found with shared accounts-accountability. Because v-GO Shared Accounts Manager automatically ties actual users to shared IDs, enterprises, for the first time, know who is using what shared account and when.

v-GO Shared Accounts Manager allows users to check out shared IDs, each of which is uniquely associated to a specific user for its duration of use. Authorized administrators can set policies to control usage of shared IDs (e.g., IDs can only be used to logon once.) And because users never see shared IDs / passwords, there is nothing to share-inadvertently or maliciously

Only v-GO Shared Accounts Manager provides this level of security, accountability, and tracking previously unattainable for shared accounts.

v-GO Shared Accounts Manager also enables organizations to manage conventional and shared credentials with one strategy and infrastructure, improving operational efficiency.

Rather than buying a separate hardware or software vault system to administer shared accounts, v-GO Shared Accounts Manager allows organizations to use their existing enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) infrastructure, and optionally an identity management system, to address the challenge of privileged account password management and compliance.