Bytes Software Services

CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM) SaaS

CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager, hosted by CyberArk and delivered as SaaS, helps to remove the barriers to enforcing least privilege and allows organizations to block and contain attacks at the endpoint, reducing the risk of information being stolen or encrypted and held for ransom. bssgc

Features

• Privilege Management
• Application Control
• Just-in-time elevation
• Credential Theft Blocking
• Ransomware Protection
• Privilege Deception

Benefits

• Prevent attacks by removing local admin rights on endpoints.
• Whitelisting, Blacklisting, Greylisting and Restricted Access.
• Access on a by-request basis for a time limited period.
• Detect and block attempted theft of stored and cached credentials.
• Advanced application controls to detect and block ransomware attacks.
• detect and block lateral movement with credential lures and response.

£3.00 a user a month

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at tenders@bytes.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

547155145916662

Contact

Chris Swani
+44 (0) 7951 326815
tenders@bytes.co.uk

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: Limited to Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS Endpoints. Capabilities offered for Linux are limited to privileges management, control & elevations
• System requirements:
  • Windows UAC Enabled
  • Windows Desktop: minimum version MS Windows XP SP3
  • Windows Server: minimum version MS Windows Server 2003
  • Mac: minimum version High Sierra 10.13

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: "2 hours for critical events; 4 hours for serious events; 6 hours for moderate events; 12 hours for minor events"
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: "24x7 Helpdesk support; Professional Services for deployment and post-installation modifications; Technical Account Management as an ongoing service; Customer Success assistance to guide the IAM Program"
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: "CyberArk provides detailed documentation on the CyberArk Docs site as well as video tutorial. CyberArk and it's partners can also provide Professional Services to new and existing customers for this purpose.; Online training and certifications are available."
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats:
  • Powerpoint
  • Videos
• End-of-contract data extraction: Data is made available upon request.
• End-of-contract process: After a specified period of time the tenant and the data is holds it deleted from the cloud service. For legal reasons some information about the contact can be withheld for a longer period.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: No
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Linux or Unix
  • MacOS
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Description of service interface: - The solution is fully managed with a web interface.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Accessibility testing: The web interface has been developed and tested with full respect of standards, and as such shouldn't prevent usage of assistive technologies.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: "The primary purpose of the API is to enable integration with Helpdesk/Ticketing and workflow solutions to automate the management of user requests. The API provides access to:; - Collect Events; - List, Create, update and delete policies; - Query Sets, Endpoints and Endpoint Groups"
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Each customer is provisioned a single tenant separated by schema to ensure security and continuity of tenant. Tenants are hosted on an AWS cloud service which scales with demand. CyberArk makes use of 3 availability zones in AWS to ensure uptime. In addition, users can be segregated into sets based on their demands, each set is a discrete instance with associated resource.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Active users, licenses consumed.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller (no extras)
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Cyberark

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: No
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Except for privacy regulation purpose, the nature of the service doesn't require users to export their data.
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: Not Applicable
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: N/A

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: CyberArk uses advanced encryption algorithms to protect data at rest and DLP to restrict data access to intended audience.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: "CyberArk is committed to a service availability SLA of 99.95% for EPM.; In the event CyberArk does not meet the Availability Commitment, Customer shall be eligible to receive a credit (“Service Credit”). Service Credits are calculated as a percentage of the pro-rated monthly subscription fee paid to CyberArk for the affected SaaS Product for the Subscription Term in which the Unavailability occurred, and based on the actual Uptime Percentage, "
• Approach to resilience: Deployed on an AWS platform and resides in three different Availability Zones (AZ), in case of outages in one of the AZ data-centres. Each AZ includes the application and all the supported entities that are required for the proper functionality of the solution, and monitoring
• Outage reporting: Public dashboard (https://status.epm.cyberark.com/) and Email Alert

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Agents running on the client computer authenticate to the EPM command and control interface using TLS encryption
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Management interface is controlled by RBAC. Support access with CyberArk requires users to be registered and also take have completed training and passed the appropriate examinations
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: While users can authenticate to the service using the built-in identity service (username and password), we recommend that it is integrated with an existing identity provider that provides SAML. In that configuration users will authenticate to the web service using their identity provider, respond the 2fa challenge of that service, whereupon the EPM console will then consume the SAML request.

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: The Standards Institute Israel
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 14/03/2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Certificate is Applicable to Business processes: Research, development, sales and support of information security solutions and technologies.
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • NISA Certified, VPAT 508, FIPS 140-2
  • NIST 800 & SOC2 certified.

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards:
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
• Other security governance standards: CyberArk has the following additional accreditations: ISO 9001, Common Criteria, NISA Certified, VPAT 508, FIPS 140-2, NIST 800 & SOC2 type2 certified.
• Information security policies and processes: "The InfoSec Department provide direction and technical expertise to ensure that CyberArk’s information is properly protected. This includes consideration of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and the systems that handle it. They act as liaison on InfoSec matters between all departments, and must be the focal point for all InfoSec activities throughout CyberArk. The Department performs risk-assessments, prepares action-plans, evaluates vendor-products, participates on in-houseIT system development projects, Implementations, investigates information security breaches, trains staff members. The InfoSec Department has the authority to create and periodically modify both technical standards and standard operating procedures that supports the InfoSec policy. When approved by appropriate CyberArk management, new requirements have the same scope and authority as if they were included in existing policy documents.; ; An information security steering committee, consisting of the CEO, GM, CIO and CISO must meet bi-weekly to review the current status of information security at CyberArk, approve and later review information security projects, and perform other necessary high-level information security management activities. Other employees may join the committee according to necessity and relevance. An information security Audit committee is being updated with information security work plan and risks management on a bi-quarterly basis."

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: As opposed to other cloud service providers who only provide a service but use 3rd-party technologies, CyberArk developed all the technologies it uses from scratch and only uses standard servers and routers (no 3rd-party technologies). This allows much more flexibility and rapid reaction to new threats and attack vectors as we do not have to wait for updates and patches – we do them ourselves immediately. In order to fight todays sophisticated and constantly changing attack patterns we have CyberArk’s 24x7 SOC - manned with security experts that can handle any attack in real time.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: "CyberArk uses various tools to continuously track and monitor security vulnerabilities. As part of the ongoing information security activities, the security vulnerabilities are prioritized and assigned an appropriate remediation process according to the type of vulnerability, its severity and exposure. CyberArk's security vulnerability steering committee gathers on a bi-monthly basis to track and monitor open issues and remediation progress.; Details available on demand"
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: We have defined process of incident response and an incident response team whose responsibilities include: Analysis of the security issue risk (based on Severity Matrix and CVSS), remediation and recommendation. SLA of handling the issue according to the risk level. In case the decision is to fix, the fix is like any standard feature\bug development, including validation (QA) and automation. Security bulletin - in case a security issue found risky, and requires patch, we have a mechanism of publishing "security bulleting" to our customers. This bulletin contains explanation of the issue, and mitigation steps (including patch if needed).

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Fighting climate change

  Fighting climate change

  We take our environmental management and the impact we have on the environment very seriously. We have environmental policies in place and hold the ISO14001 accreditation. Our environmental assessments are conducted annually by an external Lead ESOS Assessor; they are signed-off by the board and compliance reported to the regulator (the Environment Agency). Our environmental policy is published on our website at https://www.bytes.co.uk/company/sustainability/environmental.; Bytes achieved carbon net zero in March 2022 through approved carbon offsetting schemes. We are always seeking to reduce our impact on the environment. We aim to minimise waste, reduce pollutants and use renewable materials. Our offices have recycling facilities for cans, plastic and paper. We aim to reduce our office printing to zero within the next few years. ; An Environmental Steering Committee has been established to coordinate environmental activities and drive change.; To drastically reduce our emissions, we have switched to renewable energy. Our Head Office has reached our first milestone of using a specialist 100% renewable electricity provider. We are also exploring options to install solar panels on our Headquarters building.; Other environmental initiatives include installing electric vehicle charging points and encouraging staff to commute to work without the car (setting up a car share network and installing secure cycle parking).; We produce a SECR (Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting) report that details the companies energy consumption and carbon emissions. This report is produced annually by an independent assessor. ; This report provides details of our emissions in Scope 1, 2 and 3 categories. It details the activities previously taken to reduce emissions and also recommendations for further improvements.; For scope 1,2 and 3 emissions we aim to reduce these by 50% by 2025-2026 from our 2021 baseline.; We aim to be Net Zero by 2040, covering our own operational emissions.

Pricing

• Price: £3.00 a user a month
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at tenders@bytes.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.