Solutions: Secure Remote Administration
Secure Remote AdministrationIn recent years a confluence of important factors has dramatically increased demand for secure remote access to multiple IT operations within the enterprise or large government entities:
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The increase in the need to provide the IT administrator reliable remote access and elevated operational efficiency has come with additional overhead: increased risk of unauthorized or even malicious activities by remote users granted access to the critical IT infrastructure.
The Xceedium GateKeeper enables agencies and companies the ability to grant secure remote access to high-risk users while increasing operational efficiency.
Why Xceedium GateKeeper?
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Xceedium GateKeeper addresses all these problems.
Xceedium GateKeeper acts as a centralized IT operations management portal that provides secure access and all the tools necessary to provide efficient remote administration, connecting authorized users through a secure channel to a wide variety of remote systems, consoles, devices and control points. The Xceedium entitlement management framework provides access without a footprint on the network, containment to authorized areas, and centralized recording and reporting. Instead of connecting directly through virtual consoles, IPSec, SSL/VPN and modems, and using separate and costly containment and tracking tools, GateKeeper provides a centralized, secure, complete solution.
A Complete Solution for Secure Remote Administration
Xceedium GateKeeper resolves many of the problems, costs, and risks associated with administrative access by virtue of the following key features:
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- Centralized management capability reduces the risks and costs of physical access. The ability to access and control all remote consoles and devices from a single management portal provides zero-touch administration regardless of geography. Equipment rooms can stay locked, local administrators are rarely required, and administrative travel is greatly reduced, resulting in significant cost savings and reduced physical security risks.
- A unique reverse port forwarding access methodology that eliminates the risk of over-provisioning. Xceedium GateKeeper provides detailed control over administrator access, including role- and identity-based access control, scheduled access times, and granular restriction on access rights. This allows enterprises to provide temporary access as required, separate control activity, restrict visibility, and lock down excessive access. The user does not put a footprint on the network, uses a DAPE methodology (deny all, permit exceptions) and allows visibility to the user's IP address for accountability.
- Xceedium's patent pending LeapFrog Prevention™ Technology monitors and contains user activity at the socket level of servers and enforces white list/black list policy that blocks the ability of these high-risk users to exploit powerful access tools like SSH or telnet to move into unauthorized areas. The Xceedium Gatekeeper restricts high-risk users to authorized areas only. The solution extends this model with alerts and remediation methodologies that pass the most stringent audit tests.
- Centralized Tracking and Reporting
Xceedium delivers a centralized IT operations management platform that presents a single place for each user to perform all activities. Concurrently, Xceedium touches all the systems and devices in the heterogeneous infrastructure for a single view of all its components. Thus, all end-user activity is tracked sequentially, and reporting capabilities enable customers to easily pull reports that chronicle every activity performed by the end user, or group of users. This "single window" view allows simplicity in a complex environment for performance audit or compliance. - Xceedium GateKeeper delivers complete keystroke and session recording capabilities that provide complete visibility into what the user is doing in CLI sessions. By tracking what the user types and sees, forensic data is created, which is invaluable for future risk assessment and forensic analysis.
- Xceedium GateKeeper is an appliance-based solution, with the software installed, configured, and ready-to-go. This makes it much easier to install, implement, and manage than most comparable software solutions.
A Complete Solution for Secure Remote Administration
The Xceedium Gatekeeper provides an efficient way for companies to manage the entire remote infrastructure and to monitor and enforce policy for its high-risk users. Centralized and comprehensive recording and reporting of all user activities without modification of legacy systems and with minimal implementation make the Xceedium GateKeeper an excellent choice.