Why CLOUD-READY is the right PAM choice for you right now!

By David Geer

If your organization is like most, you are at some point on your journey to the cloud. You probably have partners, customers, and third-party vendors whose cloud investments give you some relationship with the cloud based on your commitments to them, or vice versa. And if you’re attending the AWS Re:Inforce event June 25-26 2019 in Boston, you’re interested in securing the cloud. 

IT environments for big data, DevOps, and containers either live in the cloud or are packing for a one-way trip in that direction. Databases are moving to the cloud. Network infrastructure and functions are moving to the cloud in the form of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Even Operational Technology (OT) is cloud-bound. Yet, 51% of organizations don’t control access to transformational technologies such as cloud workloads (38%), Big Data projects (65%), and containers (50%) with privileged access, according to Centrify survey data.

Just as with on-premises infrastructure, systems, and data, you need to protect these technologies. Intuitively, the right Privileged Access Management (PAM) choice is cloud-ready, enjoying the same advantages as other cloud technologies such as ample compute and infrastructure resources, scalability, and the expertise that cloud services offer, and using those advantages to protect your many data and technology assets. Cloud-ready PAM can take you to the cloud or meet you there. Centrify’s cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege lets you combine the benefits of your clouds with a modern Zero Trust approach that is redefining legacy PAM.

Forrester has made it clear that weak, stolen, or compromised privileged credentials are involved in four out of five security breaches. Centrify cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege offers fine-grained security against privileged access abuse, which cyber thugs seek the most when penetrating your enterprise. Explore the reasons why Zero Trust Privilege is the right PAM choice for you right now!

The benefits of PAM that’s in the cloud, whether you’re already in the cloud or not

If you want to deploy comprehensive PAM solutions in your datacenter and manage it yourself, Centrify supports you all the way. If you’d like a SaaS service and the advantages of the cloud’s agility, Centrify’s cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege is also here for you. Or if you’re looking for a hybrid that takes advantage of both, Centrify has you covered.

There’s no better fit for controlling privileged access to cloud workloads and infrastructure than using Centrify’s Zero Trust Privilege Services to rapidly scale PAM that spans all your IaaS and PaaS workloads. Centrify can take you by the hand from the moment you’re ready to dip your feet in the cloud to full cloud adoption if that’s what you want.

One roadblock many organizations are facing in their move to cloud is directory sprawl since these platforms require duplicate iterations of privileged user directories for each of your clouds. Centrify simply and easily solves this management headache with Multi-Directory Brokering, so privileged users can log in to your clouds with their existing credentials in Active Directory, LDAP, Google Cloud, or Centrify Directory. The solution also enables your users to access UNIX, Linux, and Windows systems with seamless ease.

Most admins want to connect and log in as conveniently as they can, yet it’s important not to introduce viruses and infections into your most critical systems. Centrify’s Distributed Jump Boxes act as connector gateways that enable you to rely on secure administrative access that is separate from potentially malicious public Internet traffic while using the browser, native client, or thick client you choose to access sensitive data. You won’t need a particular workstation to get into core systems and keep malicious attack traffic out. That comes handy in times of an uprise of ransomware attacks, as we have seen in the recent past.

Combine the benefits of your clouds with the benefits of Centrify’s Cloud-Ready Zero Trust Privilege

Centrify cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege combines centralized credential administration and security with convenient access to your cloud investments. You use the cloud to be nimble; Centrify does too. You can count on Centrify to eliminate the bottleneck of complex, vulnerable access credentials, credential systems, and credential management that you would see with other solutions.

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