According to a new press release, “Optiv Security, the world’s leading security solutions integrator, today announced its new Privileged Access Managed Service. A remotely delivered, managed offering, this service is designed to help public and private entities better protect privileged credentials, the most valuable link in the security chain and the source of a significant number of breaches. Optiv’s Privileged Access Managed service includes: 24/7/365 management of high availability and performance optimization, release management, administration, and reporting. These new capabilities combine with Optiv’s strategic consulting services – as well the company’s technology resale, implementation and integration services – to provide clients with a holistic, end-to-end managed identity solution. Optiv is teaming with CyberArk, the global privileged access security leader, for this initial launch to help extend this critical layer of IT security to protect data, infrastructure and assets across the enterprise, in the cloud and throughout the DevOps pipeline.

The release goes on, “Unprotected privileged credentials pose a problem on two dimensions: They give certain individuals universal access to the most sensitive systems, which poses a potential insider threat, and credentials are the primary target of cyber attackers enabling them to penetrate corporate networks. In fact, most damaging attacks involve stolen privileged credentials. In addition, the expansion of the enterprise attack surface through trends like mobile, cloud and the internet of things (IoT), combined with the chronic cyber security skills shortage, have exacerbated the privileged credentials problem: There are more attack vectors than ever into enterprises and few people who have the skills to effectively protect and manage those credentials.”

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