Systancia Cleanroom – Scalable PAM That Adapts to Your Needs
It is challenging to deliver cybersecurity protection for IT systems in the current dynamic IT landscape. The threats are complex and ever-changing. Cybersecurity procedures and tools need to adapt and flex as an organisation’s needs and the threats they face change. This is especially true for Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions that deliver enhanced protection to the most sensitive systems and data within an organisation.
What is PAM?
PAM delivers enhanced protection, accountability, and easier recovery from changes for systems. It adds additional authentication requirements for users accessing any critical IT systems. The users are typically system administrators, but they can also be other users such as staff from the Finance team who have access to systems that can transfer funds out of an organisation’s bank. Increasingly, users are often external staff providing IT or other services via a managed service provider.
To access a PAM-protected system, a user must follow a workflow that involves multiple authentication steps. If the PAM access request is approved, then all activities carried out during the session are logged in detail so that a later review can see what operations occurred. In many cases, the session activity gets recorded in a video file. PAM access sessions are one-off, and each access requires a new request and approval process. PAM solutions often time limit sessions to stop a single request from being used for long periods.
Systancia Cleanroom - PAM that Adapts
Organisational IT use is rarely static. For this reason, it’s vital that the PAM solution in use should adapt to the current context today, tomorrow, and into the future. This adaptability allows adequate control of privileged users while also allowing the provision and security level associated with user accounts and systems to evolve as needs change.
As mentioned previously, user accounts that get managed with PAM can be internal or external in MSPs. Even the internal accounts can be used from remote locations, given the dynamic nature of the current work due to hybrid working models. Plus, emergency access out of hours can mean that a systems administrator may have to access systems from a new and untrusted location over VPN or the internet. The PAM solution needs to be adaptable to accommodate and secure all scenarios like these.
Systancia Cleanroom is a PAM solution that adapts as required. Systems protected with Cleanroom use workflows that deliver controlled access each time a user needs to log on. Each session requires that they follow an agreed workflow and authorisation process before accessing PAM protected systems. Systancia Cleanroom also implements comprehensive logging and recording of all PAM-controlled system activities to make an audit trail available.
Cleanroom can provide PAM protection at different levels depending on the needs of a particular deployment. For example, a “standard” level may be sufficient for an unregulated company using only internal system administrators on its infrastructure. However, a national utility organisation in a regulated sector would choose a “full” PAM level since it is operating in a regulated industry. Even if the utility only has its own internal system admins, the higher level of PAM control would deliver the auditing required in regulated sectors.
Visit the Systancia Cleanroom page to get a detailed breakdown of the features and protection it delivers.
Connect with Systancia Experts at Cyber Expo
Experts from Systancia will be attending the Cyber Expo & Conference Ireland on the 28th of April 2022 in The Leopardstown Pavilion at Leopardstown Racecourse. You can read more and register to attend via the event website.
Systancia will be present in the Expo Hall, and you can book a meeting with them ahead of time here. Systancia will also be participating in two of the conference streams:
Identity & Rights Management - Sabrina Hamed (Systancia SaaS Channel Manager) will cover how PAM solutions allow you to protect your critical IT assets against cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity in Healthcare - Xavier Hameroux (Systancia Chief Revenue Officer) will cover how PAM solutions allow you to comply with the most demanding regulations in healthcare (such as HIPAA).
Conclusion
Renaissance partners with Systancia to make Cleanroom and their other cybersecurity solutions available via MSPs in Ireland. If you want to discuss the needs of any of your clients or talk to an expert, then contact us or join us at the Cyber Expo & Conference.