Compliance and Privileged Password Management Considerations for Financial Institutions

Privileged access and control of administrative accounts for financial systems has long been an area of interest for agencies that are responsible for ensuring the integrity of banking systems, these can include: FRB, FDIC, OCC, NCUSIF, OTS and others. With the addition of growing SOX and PCI compliance concerns, it is critical that financial services companies resolve the many issues associated with privileged password management.

This white paper discusses the issues and solutions to the management and control of shared privileged passwords including:
� Historic solutions and their deficiencies
� Technology based solutions
� Design requirements for an effective solution
� eDMZ's Password Auto Repository