We're excited to announce new capabilities of One Identity’s Cloud PAM Essentials, launched in March 2024, featuring our innovative Secure Gateway secure tunnel solution. This groundbreaking product offers a VPN-less solution designed to provide secure, seamless access to your critical resources. The journey from initiation to market release took just nine months, a testament to our team's dedication and efficiency. As we continue to add to Essentials, we wanted to share some exiting new innovations.
The need for PAM Essentials
In today's digital landscape, organizations require robust and flexible solutions to protect their sensitive data and manage privileged access efficiently. Traditional VPNs, while effective, often come with limitations such as complex configurations, slower performance and potential security vulnerabilities. PAM Essentials addresses these challenges by offering a secure, streamlined alternative.
What sets PAM Essentials apart
Our Secure Gateway is a key feature of PAM Essentials, providing a secure tunnel without the need for a traditional VPN. This enhances security and simplifies the user experience, allowing for quicker, more reliable access to essential resources. By eliminating the need for a VPN, we reduce the potential attack surface, making your organization more secure.
Customer-centric development process
From the outset, customer feedback has been central to the development of Cloud PAM Essentials. Our Product Management team has maintained open lines of communication with our customers, ensuring their needs and suggestions are integrated into the product development lifecycle. We established multiple feedback channels, including technical support engagements, customer interviews and community forums.
Recently, we introduced Aha!—a powerful tool that enhances our ability to engage with customers and provide visibility into how their feedback shapes our planning and delivery processes. This platform has been instrumental in refining PAM Essentials, ensuring it meets the real-world needs of our users.
We have added other features into our recent update including:
- Additional Linux Platform Support
- Simplified control over more variants of the Linux operating system.
- Added native support for Debian, CentOS, Fedora and Suse.
- Continued support for RedHat and Ubuntu.
- Universal Audit Reporting
- Added reports on Administrator and System activity.
- Enabled easy lookup of password rotation history and status.
- Provided a clear view of human-initiated changes.
- Added item-level audit views for tracking all changes to specific assets/accounts.
- Enhanced Directory Discovery
- Allowed for directory-joined assets and accounts to be added to PAM without manual entry.
- Simplified the process of adding large numbers of directory-joined assets.
- Improved Error Detection and Repair
- Improved error detection and reporting based on early user feedback.
- More clearly identified known environmental issues.
- Guided clients towards appropriate solutions.
- Added context menu for enhanced user interaction.
Future integration and enhancements
Looking ahead, we have exciting plans for PAM Essentials. We aim to integrate it into our on-demand privileged access management (PAM) portfolio, expanding its capabilities and making it even more accessible to our customers. This integration will offer a comprehensive suite of tools designed to provide unmatched security and ease of use.
Join the conversation
We believe that continuous improvement is driven by active engagement with our user community. We encourage our customers to share their experiences and feedback, which will help us enhance PAM Essentials further. Whether through Aha!, community forums, or direct communication with our support teams, your input is invaluable.
Forward
PAM Essentials represents a significant advancement in secure access solutions, offering a VPN-less alternative that simplifies and strengthens your security posture. We're proud of the collaborative effort that brought this product to the market and remain committed to delivering solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate and enhance our offerings. Together, we can achieve unparalleled security and efficiency.
