BeyondTrust Announces New Linux Product

BeyondTrust, the leading provider of privilege delegation and authorization management solutions, today announced the release of PowerBroker Servers Enterprise. The PowerBroker solution provides a cost-effective approach to allow organizations to seamlessly manage privileged access on Linux and UNIX systems across dynamic physical, virtual and cloud environments through Microsoft Active Directory. Organizations can now achieve powerful oversight and control over their most critical assets with a simplified, secure, heterogeneous user management solution from BeyondTrust.

“While Linux and UNIX user accounts tend to have the most privileged access in an organization, they’re all too often being managed in silos, which presents a substantial insider threat risk,” said Jim Zierick, EVP of product operations at BeyondTrust. “The manual process of managing the multitude of separate Linux and UNIX identities increases costs and complexity, ultimately leading to compliance failures and leaving critical systems and data susceptible to security breaches.” Read more here…