Recent Innovations and Announcements
Securing workforce identities is now more critical than ever as users across the organization—employees, IT admins and third-party contractors — navigate various risk levels every day. Any identity can become privileged based on the sensitivity of the resources accessed and actions performed.
CyberArk’s latest innovations in the first half of 2024 focus on security-first capabilities designed to meet the evolving needs of businesses. Collaborating closely with our customers, who influence our roadmap and co-create our market-leading solutions, we are excited to highlight recent new features in CyberArk Workforce Identity.
To best fortify your organization against evolving threats, while meeting compliance and building a sustaining identity security program, we’ve identified three key areas of focus. With CyberArk, you’re able to reimagine providing secure access, enforce intelligent privilege controls for all users, and consolidate your efforts and investments through a unified solution.
Let’s explore how CyberArk’s latest advancements in these areas can empower organizations to secure their workforce more effectively.
Let’s Reimagine Secure Access
CyberArk is revolutionizing secure access. It’s no longer enough for organizations to manage access and focus only on just efficiency for the workforce. Security must be at the forefront. One of the key ways CyberArk is innovating toward providing both a secure and seamless experience is by delivering end-to-end passwordless experiences, helping protect credentials from compromise. But when we talk about end-to-end passwordless authentication, what do we really mean?
The best way to provide users with simple, secure access to all resources is through passwordless authentication methods. This approach helps reduce the risk of compromised credentials and greatly improves the user experience. Passwordless authentication mechanisms also typically do a better job of thwarting phishing attacks. While some applications and systems within your infrastructure still require the use of a traditional username and password login, CyberArk Workforce Identity is at the forefront, supporting your aspirations to move toward a passwordless future.
Secure High-risk Access with Intelligent Privilege Controls
Going beyond traditional Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is now essential for successful Identity and Access Management (IAM) programs. CyberArk’s infusion of intelligent privilege controls across workforce-oriented access management tools offer deeper security insights and protections against both pre- and post-authentication attacks.
The traditional approach does not go far enough to guard against evolving threats. For example, while multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls are critical, they can be bypassed in attacks such as session abuse or cookie hijacking.
We know that any user can become a privileged user as they travel the spectrum of risk while conducting tasks associated with their role. For example, an HR manager may need access to systems with extensive employee PII, sales managers may need access to resources with detailed customer information, and DevOps engineers may want access to source code. It’s no longer just IT admins that require high-security management of their credentials and accounts.
CyberArk’s innovations are designed to secure the entire identity lifecycle, from initial login to ongoing access management, providing robust protection against sophisticated cyber threats.
Consolidate Efforts and Investments to Maximize Impact
One key challenge that we hear from our customers is the need to shift from a siloed approach — where elevated time and resources are required to coordinate efforts — to a unified approach. A holistic identity security program can secure the complete user access journey with consistent policies and continuous compliance. It not only saves cost and effort but eliminates security gaps. This need drives CyberArk innovation.
By unifying the strengths of our products into solutions that meet the needs of specific user groups, CyberArk ensures that all user identities — from workforce to developers to machines — are met through a single platform, simplifying management and bolstering security.
Now, CyberArk Identity Offers:
- A Secure Browser to Enhance Security, Privacy and Productivity: The CyberArk Secure Browser extends identity security protections to web browsing. It integrates data loss prevention, oversight, auditing, and privacy features, ensuring secure browsing without compromising productivity. This browser is ideal for:
- Securing access from unmanaged devices.
- Protecting SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure.
- Ensuring secure remote and third-party access.
Learn more about the CyberArk Secure Browser.
- Password Insights: This new functionality within CyberArk Workforce Password Management detects and warns users if their business passwords have been compromised in breaches or are available on the dark web. Users are prompted to change these passwords, thereby preventing the use of high-risk credentials. This feature is crucial for:
- Enforcing greater password security.
- Reducing the attack surface for credential-based attacks.
Learn more about password insights.
- Security Insights: This new solution tracks the health of a customer’s identity infrastructure, providing detailed alerts and remediation steps for improving security issues. It offers:
- Proactive action on security risks.
- Enhanced compliance and adherence to regulations.
- Increased visibility into the security posture.
Learn more about security insights.
- A Solution that is FedRAMP High Certified: CyberArk Workforce Identity has achieved the highest FedRAMP status certification. This reinforces CyberArk’s ability to help federal agencies and other public sector organizations secure access to corporate applications, protect distributed workforces, and accelerate cloud innovation in alignment with Zero Trust principles. This certification demonstrates our commitment to the superior quality of CyberArk’s solutions. Regardless of whether you operate in the US Federal space, your organization benefits from this effort to comply with stringent compliance standards.
Learn more about CyberArk Identity’s FedRAMP status.
- AI Generated Web Session Summaries: CyberArk Secure Web Sessions allows organizations to record, monitor and control user actions within sensitive web sessions. With the Step Recording feature, auditors can review in detail all actions taken by a user within a particular web session. It can be tedious to manually review the steps taken within a session recording. Now, CyberArk Identity leverages AI technology to generate session summaries. This allows administrators and auditors to quickly understand the actions taken within a session.
Learn more about generating session summaries with AI.
A security-first mindset is deeply ingrained into the CyberArk DNA. Every innovation and capability bolsters trust, mitigates risk and enhances the overall user experience. We are committed to providing comprehensive capabilities that prioritize security at every touchpoint, ensuring a seamless and secure identity journey.
These are just some highlights from the first half of the year, if you’d like to explore the many innovations released by CyberArk Workforce Identity each month, please check out the release notes.
CyberArk’s latest innovations not only enhance security but also streamline user experiences and compliance, making them invaluable for organizations aiming to safeguard their digital identities. By focusing on secure access, intelligent privilege controls, and a unified platform, CyberArk continues to lead the way in workforce identity security.
