Cybersecurity: the publicly known face and core function of Identity and Access Management (IAM). Simeio understands how dire the risks have become. As a result, Simeio teams have partnered with the data security experts, CyberArk. Simeio and CyberArk focus on a single joint purpose: to conquer one of the most critical and vulnerable facets of cybersecurity. With the Identity Security Services (ISS), a joint managed services offering from Simeio and CyberArk, your most sensitive data remains locked away from bad actors.
The modern economy exists primarily in a digital space, and digital threats have never been more dangerous. A single flaw will be found and exploited. Having an impenetrable cybersecurity solution is the only way to keep your important information secure. A homegrown solution most likely cannot sufficiently protect your sensitive assets. Prepare to learn how a “secrets as a service” provider is your enterprise’s best option, and why Simeio and CyberArk are the strongest solution.
What is Secrets Management?
Secrets management is a highly critical aspect of Identity security. It deals largely with non-human identities such as machines, apps, and bots interacting with other non-human systems or processes, largely as a part of automation. These could be machines, in-house developed applications, scripts, scheduled jobs, commercial off the shelf solutions (COTS), security tools such as vulnerability scanners, application servers, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and CI/CD tool chains, extending all the way to Internet of Things (IoT).
A secret could be a credential, like a password, SSH key or a certificate that represents an identity or it could be sensitive information like a hash value or an encryption key. Therefore, its use cases are dynamic and wide ranging, and so are the required capabilities needed to handle them effectively.
While automation can immensely benefit an organization in terms of cost and efficiency, it drives up the number of machine identities in an organization, especially when coupled with Cloud entities. It is estimated that for each human Identity, there could be 45x non-human Identities in an organization.
Why is it serious business for you?
There is a high risk involved if secrets are not handled and secured properly. Mis-managed secrets could mean any number of catastrophic outcomes. These include identity compromise, data tampering, intellectual property loss, data exfiltration or causing severe outages to your business. Not having a Secrets management solution could also set you back in regulatory compliance or cyber liability insurance requirements.
Automated processes are incredibly powerful – they can access protected data, scale at unparalleled rates, leverage cloud resources, and rapidly execute business processes. However, even simple scripts can contain powerful, unprotected (e.g., hard-coded) credentials that attackers can exploit. Each point of contact in an identity pipeline is another chance for a security breach.
Machine identities need to be managed – in addition to eliminating hard-coded credentials, robust secrets management includes a laundry list of requirements. These include strong authentication, least privilege, role-based access controls, secrets rotation or dynamic secrets, and audit readiness.
Vault sprawl needs to be avoided – when secrets are scattered across multiple vaults each vault becomes an “island of security.”, Preventing security teams from establishing a single centralized view of secrets, resulting in operational and security challenges.
Unmanaged secrets need to be identified – when secrets are unknown and unmanaged, the level of risk and exposure can be impossible for security teams to determine.
Manage your Secrets the Right way – Simeio & CyberArk
- The Right PEOPLE
- Simeio is a well-established and Identity security focused services company, with over 700+ experts worldwide.
- Simeio’s Identity Security Services (ISS) offering provides a single-window, one-stop-shop experience to you, to meet your Identity security challenges.
- ISS handles all aspects of your secrets management lifecycle, including managing product licenses, implementation, operational support, customization, onboarding and adoption.
- The Right PROCESS
- The Simeio team boasts a long list of successful consultations and deployments. The team has executed several successful privilege access management engagements, including secrets management. As a result, organizations know that the Simeio team is familiar with their pain points and has proven solutions.
- Simeio’s proven approach, quick implementation, and over a decade identity security experience will help you establish the right processes, communicate with your business and help execute more efficiently.
- The Right TECHNOLOGY
- CyberArk is an established market leader featuring in the Gartner research for well over a decade, consistently ranked as the top player.
- CyberArk’s Identity security solutions for secrets management addresses your application capabilities that cater to a full spectrum of Identity security challenges that matter most to your organization.
- Apart from the capabilities, CyberArk also makes it simple, easy and transparent for your business, Application, DevOps and automation teams to integrate, using API-first approach, connectors and plug-ins, extendable connectivity frameworks from its marketplace.
Conclusion
Non-human identities carry significant stakes. Securing your business, brand value, and intellectual property is not an easy task. But it is highly critical, and only a comprehensive Identity security program can answer these challenges. Do it Right.
Secrets Management is a niche domain, requires high capability and expertise to execute. With proven credentials and market leading capabilities, Simeio and CyberArk provide the ideal combination, making it an easy pick for you.
Security cannot be an afterthought. With every increasing cloud footprint, automation expansion, and bots becoming business-as-usual, the only way to continuously protect your business is by including the “secret” sauce in your security strategy.
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Written by Rajesh Seshadri Appikulam
