CA Technologies to Acquire Xceedium & Provide Comprehensive Offering for Combatting Privileged User Security Breaches & Compl...
04 Agosto 2015 - 3:15PM
Business Wire
Acquisition of Privileged Identity Management
‘Trailblazer’ Will Expand Customer Options for Securing IT
Administrator Accounts Across Hybrid IT Environments
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has signed a
definitive agreement to acquire privately held Xceedium, Inc., a
provider of privileged identity management solutions that protect
on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT environments. Terms of the
agreement were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close
within the quarter.
Recent mega breaches and growing compliance and audit demands
have increased the need to control and manage the credentials and
activities of privileged users who have unfettered access to
high-value systems that store and process sensitive information.
Acquiring Xceedium will extend CA’s security portfolio, giving
customers a comprehensive solution for controlling and protecting
IT administrator or other privileged user accounts from external
attacks or insider mistakes and malicious misuse.
“Our digital world gives organizations tremendous opportunity;
it also introduces additional regulatory demands and increased risk
as bad actors penetrate our networks using stolen credentials which
give them the proverbial ‘keys to the kingdom,’” said Steve
Firestone, senior vice president and Security general manager, CA
Technologies. “The CA and Xceedium combination will reinforce our
leadership position in privileged identity management and offer customers a flexible approach to
managing privileged identity compliance and risk.”
Xsuite®, Xceedium’s innovative privileged identity management
solution for hybrid IT environments, offers an identity-centric,
proxy-based approach. It provides a centralized point of
authentication for administrators, brokering the release of
credentials for shared administrative accounts without exposing
them to the risk of theft, compromise, or misuse. Deployed as a
physical or virtual appliance or as an Amazon machine image, Xsuite
provides scalability and simplified deployment. It also helps
address security and compliance needs: namely, centralized shared
account management for enhanced administrator accountability,
administrative session recording for audit and incident forensics,
and command filtering to limit the scope of administrator activity
and network access.
This complements CA Privileged Identity Manager’s resource- or
host-based access control approach, which focuses on controlling
access to the server operating system and limits the scope for
administrators—especially superusers—to modify processes,
configuration files or registries. CA’s solution supplements
centralized IT administrator access management with controls to
minimize the risk of a privileged user unleashing malware—a common
tactic used by attackers to launch breaches and avoid detection.
Together, the solutions will help protect privileged accounts from
compromise, provide tightly-defined access controls, and enable
monitoring of privileged user activity across an organization’s
entire hybrid IT infrastructure, further minimizing the risk of
breaches.
“Protecting against attacks on privileged user credentials can
be the difference between staying in business and going out of
business. It also has become a critical element of our national
defense as recent attacks on government systems reveal an
escalation in attacks from cybercrime to cyberespionage,” said
Glenn Hazard, Xceedium CEO. “Stealing and exploiting privileged
accounts is a central element of the kill chain in cyber attacks of
all kinds, regardless of attacker origin. We’re excited to join
forces with CA to help deliver a next generation threat mitigation
suite to the market that directly addresses these devastating data
breaches and attacks.”
Xceedium, headquartered in Herndon, Va., was founded in 2000 and
has offices in Jersey City, NJ, and Ottawa, Canada. It holds four
patents in the area of privileged identity management and supports
customers across multiple markets including finance, retail,
manufacturing and federal government.
About Xceedium
Xceedium is the leading provider of privileged identity
management solutions for hybrid enterprises. Large companies and
global government agencies use Xceedium products to reduce the
risks privileged users and unprotected credentials pose
to systems and data. The company’s Xsuite platform enables
customers to implement a zero trust security model. It
vaults privileged account credentials, implements role-based
access controls,
and monitors and records privileged user
sessions. With unified policy management, Xsuite enables the
seamless administration of security controls across systems,
whether they reside in a traditional data center, a private cloud,
on public cloud infrastructure, or a combination of
environments.
Xceedium’s solutions enable organizations to comply
with security and privacy mandates, such as PCI DSS, FISMA, HIPAA,
and NERC CIP. The company’s products provide industry-leading
reliability, availability, and scalability, and they are the most
highly certified products in the market, with designations
including FIPS 140-2 validation, Common Criteria EAL4+
certification, and inclusion on the U.S. DOD Unified Command
Approved Products List (UC/APL). For more information, please
visitwww.xceedium.com.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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