Enhanced privileged user management technology to be launched by Cyber-Ark

Cyber-Ark is to launch real-time session monitoring capabilities that enable the immediate termination of suspicious activity.

Set to be released next week on the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the corporate said that its new capabilities will better isolate, control and monitor activity to give protection to databases, virtual environments, network devices and servers from insider threats and external cyber attacks.

Among the features are web-based application access and monitoring that let administrators to connect with sensitive web applications using privileged single sign-on capabilities, and root-cause analysis to be quickly assessed during the ability to simply search, locate and alert on sensitive events.

Also, it said that users can record any activity that happens in a privileged database session, making a highly compressed and searchable DVR with all recordings stored within the tamper-proof Digital Vault Server and accessible for audits and reporting.

Cyber-Ark also said that the Privileged Session Management Suite is also integrated with security information and event management (SIEM) tools for real-time alerting, including those from HP ArcSight, LogLogic, McAfee NitroSecurity, Q1Labs (an IBM company) and RSA enVision.

Roy Adar, vice-president of product management at Cyber-Ark Software, said: “When enabling connections to sensitive systems, whether locally or remotely for third parties, it's vital to make sure that the relationship is secured and user credentials are never exposed to the top-user or reach the user's workstation.

“With our new real-time and granular command-level monitoring, organisations gain better security protection by with the ability to identify suspicious sessions in real time or search a recording on the command level and consider it from that time in time for quicker and more efficient forensic analysis and compliance support.”