Solaris Security

Learn how we can optimize the secure management of your Solaris environment

Today’s stringent compliance and security regulations have created new challenges for the IT teams responsible for managing Solaris servers. In addition to supporting highly distributed and complex infrastructures, these IT teams must also ensure an unprecedented level of secure management, as well as comprehensive reporting of all changes and user interactions with servers and devices regardless of network availability.

Since Solaris servers are often “headless” - meaning that they do not have a video card or support KVM solutions for remote management, console access products are usually an integral part of almost every Solaris deployment. However, these traditional remote access products employed to manage Solaris servers often lack the secure management capabilities and features required to meet these new security and compliance standards.

While console servers offer remote out-of-band connectivity to Solaris servers, they fail to deliver any reporting capabilities or secure management features. They are incapable of providing the sophisticated logging, reporting, and archiving of user interactions with servers that are required by today’s regulations. Furthermore, they cannot consistently enforce AAA standards and they can create security vulnerabilities, such as leaving idle user sessions open to exploitation and using insecure protocols to communicate management data.

To optimize the management of Solaris servers across an enterprise, IT teams need a solution that can deliver active, secure management and reporting at all times – even when the network is down.

Case Study: Leading Financial Services Company

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Manage your Solaris infrastructure more securely and effectively

Uplogix offers the first Solaris-optimized console management solution that overcomes today’s security and compliance challenges. Our management appliances guarantee that every Solaris server management session is secure, each user is properly authorized, and all activity is logged -- regardless of network status.

Optimized Solaris management

Uplogix’ breakthrough architecture provides security and management capabilities that both in-band software and out-of-band access tools lack, including:

• Always-Secure Remote Access to Solaris – All management traffic is encrypted, all the time. Uplogix offers SSHv2 access to Solaris consoles to ensure secure management communication and supports numerous authentication options, including Radius, TACACS, SecureID, and Safeword.
• Unparalleled Authorization Control – Granular access controls protect root passwords. Command-level access control and simple role-based permissions ensure that the right users (or groups) get the right access, to the right devices - even during a network outage.
• Uncompromising Compliance Reporting – All user interactions are logged and archived. Session- and device-level logging, powerful log inspection capabilities, and enterprise reporting of all user interactions with Solaris servers ensure compliance with federal and internal regulations.
• Highly Secure Session Management – Eliminates security risks posed by improper session termination. Uplogix appliances control and protect each session, including automated session clean-up (logout and shut down) when a user leaves the console, thereby preventing "piggy backing" or "ghosting" sessions.
• Powerful Centralized Management – The Uplogix Control Center offers a centralized point of control for all Uplogix appliances and managed devices deployed throughout an enterprise – making the appliances significantly easier to manage than terminal or console servers, which have to be managed on a one-off basis. The management station also delivers robust reporting of event, alarm, and device statistics and a simple point-and-click interface for executing enterprise-wide management tasks, and it can be easily integrated into your existing system and network monitoring systems.

The results are reduced business risk through improved IT management security and complete compliance reporting, as well as lower IT management and support costs.

Contact us today to learn how Uplogix can deliver unparalleled levels of security, compliance and remote management to your Solaris infrastructure.