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ManageEngine to showcase enhancements to Password Manager Pro offering advanced protection to data centres at Gartner Data Center Summit

Password Manager Pro helps establish access controls for critical IT resources across data centres and monitor activities; Offers advanced protection to data centre IT infrastructure from insider threats and external attacks

ManageEngine’s enhanced Password Manager Pro allows enterprises to:   

  • Consolidate, secure and centrally control privileged accounts and access
  • Track and monitor all actions performed by users during privileged sessions
  • Gain complete visibility and counter threats to information security
  • Ensure compliance to IT regulations that mandate tight internal controls
  • Download fully functional, free 30-day evaluation edition at http://ow.ly/9xwpb

London, UK – 22 November, 2012  -  ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced  that it will be showcasing the latest enhancements to Password Manager Pro,  the company's Enterprise Privileged Password Management solution along  with the rest of its integrated IT management portfolio at booth # S19  booth # S19 at the Gartner Data Center Summit London, on 27/28th November, 2012.  Password Manager Pro offers advanced protection to data centres by helping establish access controls to IT infrastructure, and seamlessly record and monitor all user actions during privileged sessions, providing complete visibility on privileged access.

Data centres represent the nerve centre of IT enterprises. With the presence of a complex mix of databases, network devices, applications and physical and virtual systems, the modern day data centres present a unique challenge for IT operations. With cyber-crime looming large, data centre operations are required to not only be robust and efficient, but also highly secure to ensure business continuity and data integrity.

Though  the IT infrastructure in data centres face both external and internal  security threats, of late, internal threats seem to be far more alarming  as many of the reported security incidents have been caused by  malicious insiders. Disgruntled staff, greedy techies, tech-savvy contractors and sacked employees could act with malicious intent and misuse privileged access.

Incidentally, the privileged accounts that grant virtually unlimited access and full controls to the physical and virtual IT resources are all pervasive in the data centres.  As uncontrolled administrative access is a potential security threat, properly managing the privileged accounts and monitoring the privileged actions is imperative.

"Consolidating,  securing, controlling, managing and monitoring privileged accounts and  access have become integral aspects of Data centre Infrastructure  Management (DCIM)," said Rajesh Ganesan, director of product management  at ManageEngine. "Keeping an eye on the actions carried out by the users during privileged sessions on critical IT resources is absolutely essential both as protective and detective security controls against cyber-attacks."

In  a single, unified solution, Password Manager Pro delivers both  privileged identity management and session management. It helps enterprises consolidate all the privileged accounts and centrally control them in fully automated fashion, thereby putting an end to the convoluted manual password management practices. Password Manager Pro helps establish access controls across data centres taking care of the access management requirements of DCIM.

Privileged sessions launched from Password Manager Pro can be completely video recorded, archived and played back to support forensic audits. By  monitoring all actions performed by privileged accounts during  privileged sessions, enterprises can gain complete visibility and  counter threats to information security that arise from outside as well  as inside the corporate firewall.

In  addition, compliance regulations such as PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA and others  mandate proper internal controls to be in place and privileged sessions  be  fully monitored with a view to protect sensitive data from internal  abuse. With selective sharing, role-based access controls, approval  workflows, policy enforcing mechanism, real-time alerts, audit trails  and first-in-class remote login and session recording capabilities,  Password Manager Pro helps enterprises answer the 'who', 'what' and 'when'  of privileged access.

Pricing and availability

Password Manager Pro (6.7) is available immediately. In addition to a fully functional, free 30-day evaluation edition, Password Manager Pro is available as a Free Edition, Standard Edition and Premium Edition.  Standard Edition prices start at $495 per year for two administrators.  Premium Edition prices start at $1,195 per year for five administrators.  All editions can be downloaded directly from the ManageEngine website at https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/download.html.

For more information on Password Manager Pro, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/. For more information on ManageEngine, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

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About ManageEngine Password Manager Pro

Password Manager Pro is a secure vault for storing and managing shared sensitive  information such as passwords, documents and digital identities of  enterprises. The benefits of deploying Password Manager Pro include eliminating password fatigue and security lapses by deploying a secure,  centralised vault for password storage and access; improving IT  productivity many times by automating frequent password changes required  in critical systems; providing preventive and detective security  controls through approval workflows and real-time alerts on password  access; and meeting security audits and regulatory compliance such as  SOX, HIPAA and PCI. For more information on Password Manager Pro, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/.

About ManageEngine

ManageEngine  delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower an IT team to  meet an organisation’s need for real-time services and support.  Worldwide, more than 60,000 established and emerging enterprises -  including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on ManageEngine  products  to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure,  including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more.  ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp.  with offices worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom,  India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

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