TechValidate Research on CyberArk Products


CyberArk Case Study

Case Study: Large Enterprise Financial Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise financial services company is based on an April 2018 survey of CyberArk customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“CyberArk is very powerful, flexible, I like the modular approach – use what you need, support and customer success resources are top notch.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select CyberArk:

  • Resolved the following challenges after using CyberArk:
    • Balancing security with productivity
    • Rampant password reuse across multiple accounts
    • Securing credentials used by applications
    • Unmanaged or unaudited third-party / remote vendor access
  • Adopted CyberArk’s privileged access security because of the following compelling business drivers:
    • Initiated a proactive security project
  • Selected a solution for privileged access security to:
    • Limit the exposure of privileged credentials
    • Enforce strong passwords, store them in an encrypted vault, and rotate them
    • Simplify audit and compliance requirements

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of CyberArk that the surveyed company uses:

  • Uses CyberArk for the following:
    • Securing privileged credentials in a vault
    • Rotating credentials based on policies
    • Securing and rotating shared service accounts
    • Monitoring and recording privileged sessions
    • Securing credentials used by applications
    • Managing third-party / remote access
  • Managing the following types of privileged accounts, credentials, and secrets with CyberArk in the next 12 to 18 months:
    • Domain admin accounts
    • Microsoft Windows admin accounts
    • NIX admin accounts (UNIX and Linux)
    • Network device accounts
    • Database or application admin accounts
    • Cloud admin consoles for IaaS or PaaS (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
    • SaaS accounts (Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, Box, Concur)
    • Local admin accounts on workstations
    • Application credentials
    • Secrets used by DevOps tools
    • Service accounts
    • SSH keys
    • Robotic process automations
  • Plans to integrate the following tools with CyberArk within the next 18 months:
    • Identity and access (Sailpoint, RSA)
    • Orchestration and threat response (ServiceNow, ProofPoint)
    • SIEM (Splunk, Fortinet, LogRhythm)
    • Vulnerability management (Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CyberArk:

  • Reports that since adopting CyberArk to manage their privileged accounts and credentials, they are now significantly more secure.
  • Reports that since adopting CyberArk to secure their privileged accounts and credentials, the time and cost of audit reporting has reduced dramatically.
  • Reports that with CyberArk, the time required to manage and maintain privileged account and credential security has reduced dramatically.




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of CyberArk Products by TechValidate.

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