Cyber-Ark Delivers New Performance for its "Privileged Identity Management" Suite

New "Application Identity Manager" Provides the Secure and Robust Authentication Methods for App2App Environments

(08.09.09) - Cyber-Ark, specialist for protecting critical applications, identities and information, announced enhancements to its Privileged Identity Management Suite. The suite includes a new version of its "Application Identity Manager" that features the most secure and robust authentication methods for "App2App" environments, resulting in greater compliance, security and corporate accountability while dramatically simplifying large scale projects for eliminating hard-coded passwords.

Cyber-Ark’s "Privileged Identity Management Suite v5.5" features a rich set of capabilities based on proven, mature technology used by global customers to create security best practices across all types of privileged accounts, including administrative and application identities. New features focus on creating greater efficiencies and process improvements to ensure that privileged accounts are being effectively managed, monitored and controlled in order to address emerging audit require-ments and better protect high-value targets such as databases, key operational systems and other sensitive information.

"With the newest version of the Cyber-Ark Privileged Identity Management Suite, we continue to demonstrate our commitment to delivering key performance benefits that optimize our solutions to meet emerging customer requirements.

New ease-of-use and process integration features are critical, especially when you consider the challenges many of our customers face as they transition to managing hundreds of thousands of privileged accounts," said Roy Adar, vice president of product management, Cyber-Ark Software. "Additionally, as audit requirements continue to create a significant drag on resources for enterprises of all sizes, enhancements to solutions such as our Application Identity Manager help customers further automate and streamline related compliance processes."

Cyber-Ark’s Privileged Identity Management Suite provides customers with a central point of control to achieve exceptional security, streamline updates with enhanced workflows, and ensure compliance with regulations and security policies. The suite features new functionality across its core Enterprise Password Vault, Application Identity Manager and Privileged Session Manager software. Following are detailed performance and ease-of-use enhancements to these solutions. (Cyber-Ark: ra)