BeyondTrust Password Safe improves security with boosted password management

BeyondTrust has announced the release of its BeyondTrust Password Safe 21.2 and BeyondIn sight 21.2 with the improved flexibility to operate specially designed bespoke apps and previously unsupported platforms.

The additional capacities and features increase safety and enable IT operations and security teams to handle privileged credentials intuitively through automation, time-saving and complexity removal.

To protect privileged credentials and safeguard access to essential assets, BeyondTrust Password Safe combines confidential passwords and session management. BeyondTrust Password Safe 21.2 enhances an organization’s capacity to foresee, prevent, and respond to ever-changing cyberthreats by extending flexibility and improving business continuity. 

Scripts may now be used to bring password management to a more extensive range of systems and applications, thanks to enhancements to custom platforms. Multiple credential owners can now share management of business-critical credentials thanks to the new Team Passwords capabilities.

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to save time and dollars by streamlining operations. BeyondTrust Password Safe 21.2 adds automation to provide privileged password management to mission-critical systems quickly and easily.

BeyondTrust’s platform for centralized Privilege Access Administration (PAM) for management, reporting, and threat analytics is BeyondInsight. Improvements to periodic maintenance and discovery scans and improved support for IBM QRadar are included in BeyondInsight 21.2. These and other new features make it easier to deploy, automate activities, increase security, and reduce the risks associated with privileges.

“Today’s continuously changing digital environment with expanding perimeters has resulted in unwieldy account sprawl,” states Dan DeRosa, Chief Product Officer at BeyondTrust.

Further explained, “To properly control this risk, organizations need flexible credential management that adapts to their evolving needs. BeyondTrust Password Safe helps IT teams flexibly integrate custom applications. This saves time and reduces the potential for human error by leveraging automation, enabling organizational productivity and resilience.”

For total control and responsibility for privileged accounts, BeyondTrust Password Safe combines confidential passwords and session management. All assets are scanned, identified, and profiled by BeyondInsight’s discovery engine. This classification enables automated onboarding and the capacity for access policies to self-adjust in response to changes in the environment. Smart Rules automation organizes assets and accounts intelligently, reducing manual work and increasing efficiency.

BeyondTrust Password Safe 21.2 and BeyondInsight 21.2 new features and enhancements:

• Scripts are used to manage privileged accounts for previously unsupported systems and applications. 
• Enhances Team Passwords capability by allowing multiple credential owners and full group ownership to be added and enabling numerous credential owners to be added via an API.
• Supports the integration of BeyondTrust Secure Remote Access solutions natively.
•  Remote application isolation, user portal updates, and platform updates are all supported, including Oracle containers, open SSH key types, and improved Jira integrations. 
• More options for periodic scheduling maintenance expanded support for custom ports during discovery scans and improved IBM QRadar Connector support are now available.