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Mark Warren
Mark Warren
5
December 2022

Can Developers be productive without Local Admin?

Developers need local admin rights on their workstations, but that's risky. See how that risk can be removed by using Privileged Endpoint Management (PEM)

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
19
July 2022

Ransomware Payload Types Including Brickers and Wipers

Ransomware covers many different types of attack, the latest being "Brickers" and "Wipers" find out more and how to defend against them in this blog.

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
14
April 2022

Dirty Pipe Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847)

Osirium products are not affected by the so-called "Dirty Pipe" vulnerability, here are the details.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
25
March 2022

How Does Privileged Process Automation (PPA) Work?

Privileged Process Automation (PPA) can be transformative for IT Process Automation, find out how ....

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
28
January 2022

Linux PolicyKit vulnerability no risk for Osirium PAM

Long-term vulnerability in Linux poses no risk for Osirium PAM

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
19
January 2022

Launch of Osirium's PAM v8.0 - MFA, JIT, and lots more

The latest release of Osirium PAM bring scheduled JIT, MFA and much more.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
14
December 2021

Apache Log4j Vulnerability

A critical vulnerability has been found in Log4J - Osirium products are not affected, find out why ...

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
1
December 2021

Passwordless Authentication for PAM with Authlogics

Passwords are not a great way to protect systems used by human beings. With Authlogics, PAM access can be secure without passwords. Learn more ...

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
22
October 2020

Relieving the headaches of working with virtual machines

Managing VMs is a pain, but Privileged Process Automation can safely automate the common tasks. See how ...

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
1
October 2020

How to know which Domain Controllers need updates

Zerologon vulnerability needs an urgent patch but how do you know which systems haven't been updated? PPA can help

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
9
September 2020

Patch Tuesday Made Easy - With Privileged Process Automation

Managing patches to an estate of Windows is a major effort. Privileged Process Automation (PPA) can accelerate and simplify the whole process, see how ...

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
24
August 2020

Imagine If DevOps Could Be Easily Automated

A new type of automation is needed for DevOps

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
8
July 2020

Imagine If Security Operations Automation Was Easy

Security updates need to be done right first time and automation ensures safe and accurate changes. See how in this blog.

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
25
June 2020

Imagine If ... Network Operations Automation Was Easy

NetOps is a critical activity that needs security and accuracy. Privileged Process Automation (PPA) makes NetOps automation easy, here's an example

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
6
May 2020

Introducing PPA Task Builder - Low-code automation

PPA v2.5 is a major update and now anyone can build their own workflow automations in a low-code environment.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
2
April 2020

Managing Developer's Systems with PEM

Developers need to install and configure Visual Studio and various add-ins to do their work. PEM lets them do their work without needing local admin rights

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
10
December 2019

Privileged Endpoint Management – Security vs Users

Getting the balance right between security and user productivity is really hard. With PEM, the balance can be restored so everyone's happy.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
11
October 2019

Instant Internal Auditing with PAM, SIEM and Slack

For many organisations, Slack has become the central core of communications between processes and people.

Carlos Ruiz
Carlos Ruiz
8
August 2019

Automating Ansible with Osirium PPA

Osirium’s Privileged Process Automation (PPA) tool formerly known as Opus is the perfect complement to Ansible

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
31
May 2019

Privileged Access to Web Apps – A Magical Solution

One of the distinct advantages of Osirium PAM is its ability to deliver Privileged Access Management (PAM) to a very wide range of systems

Mark Warren
Mark Warren
1
March 2019

PAM – The secret to CI and DevOps Success explained

Accelerating the software delivery pipeline while improving the overall security posture. Sounds like a tall order but it is possible with PAM

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
27
September 2018

IoT, Internet of Things is not a good term…

First off, the first main issue is the word 'Things', it is too general. Things break down into different categories

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
29
June 2018

Multi-factor Authentication in Osirium PAM 6.1.0

Since Osirium PAM is an 'Identity In - Role Out' product, the quality of identity proof is crucial in highly secure environments.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
27
June 2018

Using SSH Keys for Authentication in PAM

Osirium PAM can use both passwords and SSH Keys for the role-based connections where the device supports keys.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
18
June 2018

DevOps guide to Privileged Account & Credential Security

DevOps is hard enough, don't let the risk of exposing credentials make it worse.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
28
March 2018

Database Task Automation for Asterisk (AsteriskNOW)

Like most sales managers, our internal sales manager needed access to the Call Record Database of our AsteriskNOW implementation.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
16
March 2018

Using Elastic Stack with PAM

Here’s the How-To video for using Osirium PAM with Elastic Stack.

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
24
January 2018

MAP Server – Protecting legacy applications

At Osirium, we created our Management Application Proxy Server (MAP Server)

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
14
October 2017

When your biggest problems solved, you look to the next one

The difference between what the Osirium PxM Platform is purchased for, and what our longstanding customers actually do with our products

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
14
August 2017

So What’s Wrong with Blacklisting Commands?

For example, your organisation thinks it is a good idea to blacklist the ‘rm’ command. Let’s consider the difference between these command sequences

Andy Harris
Andy Harris
3
August 2015

Highlighting the weakness of human generated passwords

Passwords are one of the biggest threats to enterprise data security around today

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