Thycotic Unveils Solution for Rapid, Limitless Scalability of Privileged Account Management Deployments in Secret Server 8.9

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Thycotic, a provider of smart and effective privileged account management solutions for global organizations, today announced the release of a new distributed engine technology for its flagship product, Thycotic Secret Server. Thycotic's distributed engine will enable enterprises to achieve greater levels of speed, reliability and control when managing large-scale Secret Server deployments, regardless of the number of end users or their geographic locations.

According to an October 2014 IANS survey, privileged account abuse is the root cause of over 60 percent of data breaches. While companies of any size can suffer a data breach resulting from poor privileged account management practices, enterprises face additional obstacles for effectively managing and securing privileged account credentials. IT teams for these large-scale organizations are often responsible for controlling and monitoring thousands of administrative passwords across numerous endpoints and geographic locations. Without an enterprise privileged account management system in place that can scale to meet their needs, organizations leave themselves vulnerable to a breach and ill-equipped to quickly stop privilege escalation when an attack occurs.

With Thycotic's agentless, distributed engine technology, enterprises can quickly deploy Thycotic Secret Server in large-scale, global infrastructures while discovering local accounts and changing passwords across any number of endpoints and geographic locations. This allows global customers to maintain high levels of performance and control privileged identities across internal, client and remote networks without compromising speed of product performance. Key capabilities of Thycotic's distributed engine technology include:

• Enhanced performance and scalability – IT admins can implement distributed engines to increase Secret Server's performance when managing large volumes of privileged account management activities, from automating password changes to discovering local accounts across various domains, endpoints and numerous geographic locations. Enterprises can implement multiple sites, which give access to multiple network locations as needed, and from there implement multiple engines which speed up Secret Server performance at each site – allowing customers to achieve higher levels of privileged account management performance regardless of the scale of their Secret Server deployments.
• Increased flexibility for spikes in PAM workload demands – For spikes in privileged account management workload demands, enterprises can quickly spin up or scale down the number of Secret Server engines. This flexibility is particularly useful in the aftermath of a data breach, when enterprises may need to add Secret Server engines in an effort to change all of their privileged account credentials as quickly as possible.
• Simplified remote network discovery, configuration and management – Distributed engines can enable IT admins to run discovery on client and remote networks, managing privileged account credentials across numerous offices and sites without making VPN connections between different locations.
• Improved security controls with RDP proxy for third party access – In addition to Distributed Engine, Thycotic Secret Server 8.9 enables IT admins to securely provide outside vendors or consultants with access to privileged account credentials stored inside Secret Server through enhanced proxy capabilities. Instead of giving third party groups direct access to sensitive credentials, those users can take advantage of Secret Server's jump host capabilities to tunnel remote desktop protocol (RDP) sessions without seeing or knowing the credential, allowing for stronger auditing on outside user activity, stricter firewall rules and custom access management options for third-party vendors.

"Our agentless, distributed engine technology offers enterprises of any size an incredibly high-performing privileged account management solution," said Ben Yoder, product manager at Thycotic. "These engines enable Thycotic Secret Server to deliver the most effective automation and configuration of privileged account credentials, and meet the performance and scalability needs for even the largest-sized enterprise deployments."

Secret Server 8.9, the newest version of Thycotic's privileged account management solution featuring the distributed engine technology is currently live and available for all Thycotic customers as well as full trials.  For more information about Thycotic Secret Server, or to sign up for a free trial, visit: http://thycotic.com/products/secret-server/.

About Thycotic
Thycotic, a global leader in next-generation IT security solutions, delivers an indispensable, comprehensive Privileged Account Management (PAM) solution to protect your "keys to the kingdom" from cyber-attacks and insider threats.  Unlike any other security offering, Thycotic Secret Server assures the protection of privileged accounts while being the fastest to deploy, easiest to use, scalable enterprise-class solution offered at a competitive price. Already securing privileged account access for more than 3,000 organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 enterprises, Thycotic Secret Server is simply your best value for PAM protection. For more information, please visit www.thycotic.com.

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