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The free trial version of Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 is now available on WALLIX’s website
February 2014 by Marc Jacob
WALLIX, European vendor specializing in the traceability and access control of privileged accounts has announced that its WAB 4.0 solution, the latest major version of its solution, is now available in a free trial version. This new version of Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 focuses on two major areas: productivity and the extension of traceability to applications and databases. Extending traceability to business applications makes the monitoring of privileged accounts accessible and fully adaptable to the production restrictions of information systems with regard to the management of IT risks.
Traceability of privileged access to applications
Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 allows providing users with single sign-on authentication (SSO) when they access information systems, then logging access to sensitive data and saving operations performed. These features cover the business applications that are essential to the proper running of the business (finance, R&D, CRM, business applications, etc) as much as they cover the infrastructure’s management applications (hypervisors, databases, etc). The CISO or auditor will therefore gain access to data saved in real time or in deferred time, which enables avoiding certain deliberate or involuntary incidents, and having increased visibility over the activity of all users who have access and administration privileges on applications such as VMware ESX, Oracle, MySQL etc. that may prove critical to the business.
Transparent integration into directories: easier provisioning, integration into the IS and lower TCO
WALLIX has developed a new provisioning system that meets the operating restrictions encountered by IT teams which manage one or several directories that are sometimes voluminous and often require regular updates. This new feature added to Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 enables seamless integration into an Active Directory Server or LDAP infrastructure to manage users and their privileges. Thanks to this new feature, provisioning becomes easier, less time is taken for the integration process and as a consequence, the total cost of ownership Wallix AdminBastion greatly decreases.
Signing and encrypting saved data: strengthening proof
The probative value of security solutions is essential when fraud occurs or an incident arises and there is a need to determine liability, the source of a problem and the amends to be made.
Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 encrypts and signs all saved sessions to guarantee their non-repudiation, validity and confidentiality. These saving and encryption features allow in particular assigning a legal value to the logs gathered by WAB, which may then be used as evidence in the event of a security incident or an audit. The CISO or CIO can then monitor the activity of its external or internal service providers and find a solution to the requirements for producing evidence or accountability or even enforcing compliance with local and international standards of managing IT risk.
Marc Balasko, Product Manager at WALLIX, commented, “Thanks to WAB’s new traceability features, our clients can finally monitor and secure the administration of their critical applications, and thereby meet increasingly tighter regulatory restrictions. WAB now allows you to know exactly what privileged users are doing and keep control over their activity regardless of their scope of intervention.”
“The increase in pressure on IT budgets has pushed a growing number of companies to outsource and use applications in the cloud, despite the potential risks that these choices expose them to. With Wallix AdminBastion 4.0, we offer a major version that not only allows monitoring users’ access to the infrastructure, but to applications as well as to the Company’s sensitive data. In a context of omnipresent risk, extending the vision from an application point of view to an infrastructure point of view allows integrating risk management into the governance of the information system and greatly raising the level of security to meet business compliance needs (healthcare data, PCI-DCCS, MSSP, SOX, etc) without holding back the capacity of our clients’ IS to adapt to the needs of the market,” emphasized Jean-Noël de Galzain, CEO and Founder of WALLIX. “Thanks to our users’ feedback, this major version of WAB also provides innovations in user experience and in the installation of the solution in its IT context. With these innovations and more maturity, we are better equipped today to keep up with the need for traceability in our client’s information systems, raise their level of digital trust and step up to the position of leader on the Privileged Account Management market.”
– To download the trial version: http://wallix.fr/en/telechargements-2/free-trial/wab-4-0-en
