What happens when infrastructure fails?

It’s gone midnight and your cell phone goes off. A critical piece of your corporate infrastructure has failed and you have been called in to fix it. After arriving in the data centre, you quickly assess you require administrator access, but don’t have the credentials.

This scenario is just one example of when you require access to shared account credentials in a hurry. Accessing these credentials should not compromise your business security policies, and should be in line with your compliance obligations.

Without SafeKeeping in place, this scenario could have a depressingly familiar outcome. Anything from having to rebuild a host from scratch without access to all of its current configuration, through to waking people up in an attempt to determine administrator account credentials.

SafeKeeping offers a solution to the management of these shared account credentials by providing a secure, automated mechanism for the request, authorisation, release and change of shared credentials.