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Edison analysts put the management software of an HP EVA system through a series of typical day-to-day storage management tasks. The same tasks were also evaluated on similar systems from NetApp and EMC. This study demonstrates how the superior user interface and virtualization offered by the HP EVA storage system can provide organizations with the benefits of higher administrative efficiency combined with the potential ability to utilize less expensive human resources.
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Privileged IT staffers literally holds the keys to the castle. Access to those keys that open the doors to critical operating system and application resources must be carefully managed and legally audited. Enter the class of products referred to as privilege account management wares.
Privileged access isn't 'single sign-on", which is more of an end-user convenience issue as well as a security spoofing prevention method. PAM products provide controlled privileged access for IT administrators and power users.
Operating systems running on critical servers and even high-end business applications running on Oracle and SQL Server databases don't always have appropriate ticketing systems for granting privileged access. And there's increasing pressure from both internal auditing and government compliance agencies for companies to know who had privileged access, when they had it, and if at all possible, what was done with the access.
Generally, with controlled privileged access, a request is made by IT staff through the PAM product for a privileged account password.
Most products tested require that all requests be approved. Granting such a request may take more than one administrative nod, as some organizations may choose to use several specific individuals or draw from a pool of individuals that must give a recorded stamp of approval before the privileged password is granted.
The privileged password is only granted for a period of time. The password may expire in short order or be automatically updated by the PAM software to something no one (but the system itself) actually knows at all — only the PAM system.
There may need to be verification that the password wasn't changed by the then-privileged user – a check typically accomplished by a shadow privileged account maintained by the PAM system itself -- and perhaps a subsequent action that changes the password and verifies that this has been done so that the new privileged password is known only to the PAM system.
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