Two important Passlogix announcements
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Two important Passlogix announcements
Passlogix made two important announcements today. [Full Disclosure: BMC is a Passlogix partner.]
First they are jumping into the privileged account management business, but with a huge advantage. Passlogix can leverage their ESSO technology to present shared credentials to applications without displaying them to the user. Or at least the user can’t easily see the passwords. The is a better approach than competing products which cough up the password in clear text that the end user would then copy down for use.
Many IT departments view shared accounts as a necessary evil. No one likes it, but the alternatives are viewed as too painful. But with a product like this combined with a good password management product (like BMC Password Manager) to set passwords on non-AD systems, shared accounts can be managed in a more controlled fashion.
Second, Passlogix is easing the pain of needing desktop software for ESSO.
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Privileged Identity Mangement
Posted by
J. Alan Bird
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2007-12-17 07:32
While the functionality that Passlogix has announced is interesting it's not as robust as some others on the market. To say all the others just 'cough up' the password in clear text is a gross, and inaccurate, statement. The Enterprise Password Vault from Cyber-Ark not only allows the administrator to directly invoke the application once they are validated to get the password or credential it also has a very robust capability to insure the passwords are changed and synchronized without human intervention. Our solution, and I believe some of our competitors, can integrate with whatever ESSO solution a customer has implemented giving them a more robust solution that is in use today by hundreds of major enterprises.
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