BeyondTrust, the intelligent identity and access security provider, has announced key enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge to help customers defend against growing Linux threats.
In 2022, 100% of the world's top 500 supercomputers and 96.3% of the world's top one million servers ran on Linux. As a result, Linux systems are not immune to cyberattacks and present high-value targets for external attackers and malicious insiders. In addition, they are widely used for critical business functions, resulting in a much more significant impact if successfully compromised.
Gaining root or other privileged credentials makes it easy for malicious actors to remain undetected while accessing sensitive systems and data. To protect against malicious activities, many enterprises use sudo (superuser do) to manage privileges in their Linux workstations. However, sudo lacks central storage and administration of policy files, secure and efficient ways to distribute policy files over multiple systems, native protection of the integrity of generated logs, and provision for remote login to remote servers. These severe limitations create security blind spots and decrease productivity and ease of management of Linux systems.
BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux enables admins to easily set up policies that allow and deny actions and use policy-based controls to elevate privileges as needed. In its latest release, the solution integrates natively with sudo via the Sudo Manager feature.
With this integration, users now have central storage and administration of sudoers policy files; a secure and efficient way of distributing sudoers policy files over multiple systems; native protection of the integrity of generated logs; provision for remote login to remote servers; centralised searching, analytics and reporting; and a web-based management platform.
The native integration gives customers unprecedented granular control over Linux workstations ..
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