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A Process Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts & Meeting Regulatory Compliance

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Overview This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach in protecting critical privileged accounts that are found in virtually every application, database and infrastructure device throughout enterprises. This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. Through features such as automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system, PowerKeeper is the only solution in the market that is fully heterogeneous out-of-the-box.

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Publisher	BeyondTrust	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, E-commerce Security, Security Tools

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