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One Identity, a pioneer in unified identity security, announced the general availability of One Identity Cloud PAM Essentials. This innovative SaaS-based solution will simplify privileged access management (PAM) across the enterprise, with a specific focus on cloud applications and infrastructure. The surge in cloud migration, coupled with the expansion of the attack surface and the growing sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks, underscores the critical need for effective PAM solutions. By tightly controlling and auditing access to privileged accounts, PAM plays a pivotal role in bolstering an organisation’s security posture and mitigating identity-based attacks. Comprehensive PAM solutions 78% of them view comprehensive PAM solutions as integral to their cybersecurity strategy Mark Logan, CEO of One Identity, emphasised the distinct advantage of PAM Essentials: “Unlike existing solutions in the market that often entail long and costly deployments, PAM Essentials can be up and running in minutes, without the need of additional infrastructure investments. This solution can save customers thousands of dollars on implementations, making sophisticated PAM security attainable for even the smallest of organisations.” Small and mid-sized businesses, which often grapple with limited IT resources, stand to benefit significantly from this solution. According to KuppingerCole, 78% of them view comprehensive PAM solutions as integral to their cybersecurity strategy. Cyber insurance requirements “The market has been in dire need of a cloud-based solution for Privileged Access Management that is easy to deploy and suitable for small and mid-sized businesses,” said Paul Cameron, Chief Revenue Officer at Intragen. “Many companies are struggling with audit failures and the inability to obtain cyber insurance due to insufficient control over administrator access users. PAM Essentials goes beyond a traditional on-premises solution; it aids in compliance and industry-specific standards, a crucial step in meeting cyber insurance requirements.” New disclosure requirements PAM Essentials empowers security teams with robust controls, ensuring only authorised individuals With its exceptional time-to-value and streamlined management interface, PAM Essentials empowers security teams with robust controls, ensuring only authorised individuals can gain access to sensitive systems and data. The solution provides full visibility into user activities, facilitating proactive risk management through an intuitive user interface. Brian Chappell, head of product at One Identity, highlighted the solution’s alignment with evolving compliance standards and cyber insurance requirements, stating: “In light of the SEC’s new disclosure requirements and increasingly stringent cyber insurance requirements, PAM Essentials equips businesses to adapt seamlessly. Our goal with PAM Essentials is to provide a scalable, user-friendly solution that instils confidence and peace of mind amidst the dynamic cybersecurity landscape.” Key features of PAM Essentials Key features of PAM Essentials include:  Cloud-native PAM functionality: Remote and hybrid security teams can access cloud applications and resources with ease. Sessions-based privileged access: User sessions are monitored, controlled and recorded with remote access via SSH and RDP. Privileged session recording: Structured audit logs, protocol proxy session recordings and isolation of user sessions create a strong forensic trail tracking potential threats. Secured credentials management: Central orchestration of auto-login, timely rotation of passwords and vaulting of local server accounts passwords reduce the risk of unauthorised access. Secure tunnel technology: Eliminates the complexities of traditional network access solutions - with no VPN needed - by being built on zero-trust architecture. Native integration with OneLogin: Extended unified access management via centrally managed PAM Essentials is enabled for OneLogin customers. Flexible: Users can quickly and effectively integrate existing directories and authentication controls.

One Identity, a pioneer in identity-centred security, announces a partnership with HashiCorp, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure automation software used by developers, operators and security professionals. With the integration of One Identity’s privileged access management (PAM) Safeguard for Privileged Sessions, HashiCorp Vault users can now securely manage, monitor, record, and audit privileged and administrative access to their vaulted tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys and other secrets used in DevOps workflows. The integration enables organisations to better manage and protect critical assets from potential cybersecurity threats and meet compliance requirements.     Accelerating production and scalability IT operations have completely changed over the last decade, with the focus now on rapid innovation and quickly pushing applications to production. To embrace these changes, DevOps practices have been widely adopted to reduce friction in development workflows but often introduce unforeseen security risks. These DevOps practices need to evolve to address these security challenges where DevOps environments evolve to include security, commonly referred to as DevSecOps. DevSecOps best practices require full audits of privileged activity to data sources DevSecOps best practices require full audits of privileged activity to data sources, application services and other vital tools and sensitive information within an enterprise. With the pressure to accelerate production and scalability, implementing security best practices to protect privileged access and credentials within DevOps environments is often overlooked. In fact, only 46% of developers are addressing security risks during early phases of development, SANS reported. Public privileged credentials External bad actors are aware of these shortcomings, increasingly seeking out this negligence and leveraging public privileged credentials to gain access to sensitive files and data and, in some cases, conduct malicious attacks against the organisation, the products themselves and their users. The integration between One Identity Safeguard and HashiCorp Vault enables organisations to effectively mitigate security risks associated with unprotected secrets while also maintaining the speed and scale that’s necessary for the DevOps environment. One Identity Safeguard's transparent protocol proxy technology allows humans and machines to be controlled and audited without interrupting or slowing down their workflows. It enables organisations to gain the needed oversight of privileged access used with HashiCorp and inspects the protocol traffic on the application level and rejects traffic that violates policies. Secure access and authentication Actions can include sending an alert or immediately terminating a session This eliminates unauthorised and unfettered access to resources and protects the network and sensitive data. Organisations can also monitor privileged sessions in real time with the ability to execute various actions if unusual or unwanted behaviour is detected. Actions can include sending an alert or immediately terminating a session. “The time, education, and skills necessary to secure rapid, and iterative DevOps environments have historically been very limited, despite the severity of the potential pitfalls,” said Asvin Ramesh, director of technology alliances at HashiCorp. “By connecting HashiCorp Vault with One Identity Safeguard, we’re giving our joint customers an integrated solution that offers continuous control, monitoring, and secure access and authentication in real time during this imperative stage of production.” Cloud security automation Implementing the One Identity Safeguard plugin to HashiCorp Vault customers takes minimal configuration changes and provides rapid ROI and increased security to organisations. As a result, the integrated solution helps prevent malicious actions or human error, as well as provides evidence for auditing, troubleshooting and forensics investigations to help customers meet regulatory compliance demands. “HashiCorp is the market leader in cloud security automation, and we are thrilled to partner with them, providing their customers with access to our award-winning Safeguard solution,” said Darrell Long, VP of Product Management at One Identity. “This partnership will provide HashiCorp users with the ability to seamlessly bolster security and reduce risk using the tools that make them productive and safe, while maintaining the agility and scalability needed to compete in their respective markets.”