Secure Remote Access Control & Management

 

In recent years, a confluence of factors has dramatically increased the demand for secure remote access to IT operations, particularly for privileged users:

  • Business expansion creating more remote infrastructures
  • Increasingly mobile work force
  • Emergence of cost-effective, lights-out facilities
  • Increased role of managed service providers (outsourcing)

The increased need to provide IT administrators with reliable remote access and improved operational efficiency has brought the increased risk of unauthorized or even malicious activities by remote users granted access to your critical IT infrastructure.

Xceedium gives organizations the ability to grant secure remote access to privileged users while increasing their operational efficiency.

Xceedium's Role in Secure Remote Access Control

Privileged users require secure, remote access to many systems, across many offices and geographies. Traditional solutions like SSL/VPN, IPSec, modems and direct physical access introduce unacceptable risks, high costs and complexity. They’re hard to maintain and fall short of addressing compliance requirements around audit and control. Xceedium addresses all of these problems.

Xceedium acts as a centralized IT operations management portal that provides secure remote access control and all the tools necessary to provide efficient remote administration. Xceedium's solution connects authorized users through a secure channel to a wide variety of remote systems, consoles, devices and control points. It grants access without leaving a footprint on the network, contains individuals to their authorized areas, and centralizes session recording and reporting. Xceedium provides a centralized, secure and complete remote access management solution.

Benefits of Xceedium's Secure Remote Management:

  • A single point of ingress  – One point of access removes the risks of legitimate and illegitimate back doors. All access to the system is secured by SSL over TCP, allowing the enterprise to close all access except one standard firewall port. Xceedium's connections to managed systems, however, remain highly flexible, supported by access methods including Telnet, SSH and GUI
  • Centralized management capabilities – The ability to control all remote consoles and devices from a single management portal provides zero-touch administration, regardless of geography, reducing the risks and costs of physical access. 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
  • Unique secure port forwarding access methodology  – Xceedium provides detailed control over administrator access, including role- and identity-based access control, scheduled access times, and granular restriction on access rights. These controls allow enterprises to provide temporary access as required, to separate control activity, to restrict visibility, and to lock down excessive access, eliminating the risk of over-provisioning
  • LeapFrog Prevention™  – Xceedium's patent-pending LeapFrog Prevention technology monitors and contains user activity at the socket level of servers. It enforces white-list and black-list policies, preventing individuals from moving into unauthorized areas
  • End-user activity tracking  – Organizations can easily generate reports that chronicle every activity performed by a user or a group of users. This "single-window" view allows simplicity in a complex environment for performance audit or compliance
  • Complete keystroke and session-recording  –  Xceedium provides complete visibility into what a user is doing in CLI sessions. By tracking what a user types and sees, forensic data is created, which is invaluable for future risk assessment and forensic analysis
  • Privileged password management  – Eliminate the typical problems associated with shared passwords. Priviliged user password management also makes it possible to precisely link specific actions with specific individuals
  • Single appliance-based solution  – Xceedium's  appliance-based solution has software installed, configured and ready-to-go, making it much easier to install, implement and manage than most comparable software solutions

A Complete Solution for Secure Remote Management

Xceedium provides an efficient way for companies to manage the entire remote infrastructure and to monitor and enforce policy for its privileged users. Centralized and comprehensive recording and reporting of all user activities with minimal implementation — and without modification of legacy systems — make the Xceedium solution an excellent choice.

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