Delinea’s privileged access management (PAM) solution provides security without sacrificing UX.
Enterprises must prioritize privileged access management (PAM). These credentials enable users to make fundamental changes to the IT infrastructure and enterprise data. Bad actors with this level of access could bring an organization to its knees.
But developing an effective, secure PAM platform is challenging. For example, in complex multi-cloud or hybrid environments, organizations generally experience large swings in demand. Any solution, then, must be able to scale to handle these fluctuations. It must also ensure strong security through strong encryption and multi-factor authentication—all while isolating data to protect crossover between different resources or different customers to protect their privacy.
And there’s more. A PAM platform needs continuous discovery to identify new cloud instances and privileged access. One of the cloud’s most powerful features is its ability to create and scale instances in no time at all, but because it’s so easy to do, a company’s cloud footprint can expand faster than its ability to keep up with privileges. By automatically discovering new instances, a PAM platform can ensure that cloud sprawl doesn’t create security vulnerabilities with privileged access.
Finally, PAM solutions need built-in redundancy to avoid single points of failure and a cloud-native architecture that ensures continuous backup, failover, and data recovery. If the PAM platform goes down, users may no longer be able to access apps and data that they need to do their jobs, and vulnerabilities can go undetected and unmanaged, increasing risk. The PAM platform must be rock-solid so that, even when updating, there’s no downtime.
Achieving this state is a significant engineering feat. While the challenge is complex, the PAM solution shouldn’t be. Unfortunately, most solutions on the market do make PAM difficult. Traditional PAM platforms struggle with providing the scalability required for diverse, growing IT environments. Their monolithic architectures increase the risk of a single point of failure, where a single component breaks and causes total system failure. Delinea takes a different approach—one that emphasizes ease of use, ease of implementation, and easy customization. Its cloud-native PAM solution is built on a microservices-based architecture, which makes it highly scalable and resilient. Customers can scale as required, adapting to the unique demands of the enterprise without extensive reconfiguration or downtime. In fact, the architecture supports zero downtime upgrades and updates, which enables continuous micro-releases and system-level upgrades with no disruption to operations.
Additionally, because Delinea is composed of dozens of different services, each of which is completely isolated and independent, there is no single point of failure. Plus, this microservices-based architecture enables customization at the microservice level to address specific needs around capacity and functionality.
Though Delinea is a powerful and sophisticated platform that operates within an extremely complex environment, the solution itself has been designed to be very user-friendly. Customers will not need to embark on extensive training programs or hire additional personnel to manage privileged access with the platform.
