James Imanian, senior director of the U.S. Federal Technology Office at CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR), said government agencies looking to implement a zero trust architecture should understand the importance of privileged access management and its key role in such an approach.
In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Imanian noted that privileged access management tools like those of CyberArk could transmit and receive signals from security policy environment points to help a zero trust platform make access-related decisions.
“Agencies can rotate important passwords and even record and analyze privileged sessions if necessary. In addition, privileged access management can support agencies’ efforts to automate workflows and orchestrate actions to achieve desired outcomes,” he stated.
The CyberArk executive cited the importance of integrating an identity and access management tool into an ecosystem that can both handle human and machine identities.
Imanian mentioned UberEther‘s IAM Advantage zero trust platform and how CyberArk supports the platform as a partner.
He also noted that integrating identity and access management into a security stack could help agencies detect and respond to cyberthreats.
According to Imanian, CyberArk and IAM Advantage could help agencies execute their missions by enabling them to prevent threat actors from leveraging privileged credentials to gain access to government networks.
