Thycotic, provider of smart and effective privileged access management solutions for global organizations, announced that its flagship solution, Secret Server, now offers advanced capabilities in VMware hypervisor
environments. Secret Server’s ability to automate the discovery of
local accounts on VMware ESX while easily updating root passwords
improves VMware administrators’ ability to discover and manage ESX
hypervisors as well as all guest machines.
The number of identities that an organization must control and secure
is escalating as companies globalize. Enterprise users, customers and
partners, as well as contractors, outsourced or offshore IT, support and
development teams are working from increasingly distributed locations
and devices. This increases the risk of rogue virtual environments, or
so-called “Shadow IT.” In order to eliminate risk and improve
efficiencies, IT administrators need the right set of privileges across a
diverse set of servers and applications.
“As more enterprise functions move to virtual environments,
businesses require real-time visibility into activity involving
privileged accounts in order to monitor how these environments are being
used,” explained Ben Yoder, product manager, Thycotic Software.
“Monitoring and controlling privileged sessions within VMware platforms
means IT administrators can more accurately assess what actions are
being performed, leveraging all company assets – both sanctioned and
unsanctioned – and respond appropriately.”
VMware ESX is VMware’s enterprise server virtualization platform. The
platform is available in two versions -- ESX Server and ESXi Server.
VMware ESX and ESXi are the most widely deployed hypervisors, delivering
the highest levels of reliability and performance to companies of all
sizes. VMware ESXi is the latest hypervisor architecture from VMware.
With Secret Server’s new enhancements, IT administrators can better
manage:
- ESX/ESXi Discovery – Secret
Server can now discover local accounts on ESX systems to help manage
privileged accounts with access to the hypervisor.
- Linux Support – Thycotic is also expanding discovery options
from Windows machines to include Linux systems, making Secret Server a
better choice for hosting providers or other companies with a large
number of UNIX\Linux systems.
- API-based ESX/ESXi Password Changing – In addition to SSH
password changing, administrators can now change root passwords on ESX
systems using the ESX built-in API. This can be used if policy prohibits
enabling SSH access to the hypervisor.
Thycotic will showcase Secret Server’s new VMware hypervisor
management capabilities live at VMworld US 2014, August 24-28 at the
Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://thycotic.com/products/secret-server/start-a-trial/.