Compliance Assurance
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The Novell Compliance Management Solution lets you manage, limit, and secure access controls for superusers at a granular level, and prove these controls for compliance purposes.
In a typical enterprise, many system administrators need root privileges to perform various operations on Linux/UNIX servers. You need to be able to provide a detailed audit trail for root activity, at an individual user level, in order to meet regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley. This lack of an audit trail is increasingly flagged in audit findings.
While root privilege is an important function, most system administrators on staff do not need, and should not have, full-time superuser rights. When an IT organization shares a common password for master access to the system, the risk of a security breach increases multi-fold. The damage resulting from rogue use of superuser privileges can run into millions of dollars.
You need a way to granularly manage, limit, and secure access controls for superusers and be able to prove these controls for compliance purposes.
Novell Privileged User Manager helps you attain compliance in Linux/UNIX environments. It does this by managing privileged user access at a granular level. It also provides auditing capabilities to prove it, for SUSE® Linux Enterprise and other Linux/UNIX platforms. Superuser privileges are centrally managed for consistent policy enforcement and for fine-grained access, based on specific authorization, time and place. This provides only the privileges that a specific superuser needs. The detailed keystroke logging of user activity and graphical risk analysis greatly simplifies compliance.
What's more, the coverage of Privileged User Manager can grow with your business, through a centralized, policy-based architecture. Policies are defined once and are automatically enforced across every Linux/UNIX server in your data center. This proactive, scalable approach helps you clearly identify events that need internal auditing and sign-off. This makes it easy for auditors to quickly resolve compliance issues.
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