Bytes Software Services

CyberArk Vendor Privileged Access Manger SaaS

CyberArk Vendor Privileged Access Manger is specifically designed to provide fast, easy and secure privileged access for remote vendors and users that need to access critical internal systems that are managed by CyberArk. The cloud-based, multifactor authentication provided with Vendor Privileged Access Manger leverages the biometric capabilities from smartphones. bssgc

Features

• Implement Zero-Trust access for remote users to CyberArk CorePAS.
• Streamline access to CyberArk by removing the need for VPNs.
• Simply access for remote users to CyberArk.
• Simply and automate provisioning and deprovisioning of users.
• Improve visibility over external user activity.

Benefits

• Connect remote users directly into CyberArk without VPN/VDI
• Automatically provision and deprovision CyberArk users
• Help enforce Just-in-Time and Zero Trust models
• Provide passwordless access to users
• Increase accountability of CyberArk users by ensuring a unique username
• Remove the need to deploy web-facing components in the DMZ

£37.00 a user a month

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

791125280354733

Contact

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

Service scope

• Service constraints: CyberArk Vendor Privileged Access Manger is used to give access to CyberArk PAM only.
• System requirements:
  • CyberArk PAS v10.3 and above.
  • CyberArk PSM HTML5 gateway.
  • HTML 5 compatible browser.
  • A smartphone running iOS 10+or Android 6+.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: 1 Hour
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• 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; Free Customer Success assistance to guide the PAM Program"
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: CyberArk provides detailed documentation on the CyberArk Docs site. CyberArk and it's partners can also provide Professional Services to new and existing customers for this purpose.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• 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.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: Users can use the web interface to authenticate themselves and access a CyberArk PAM deployment without the need for an agent or VPN connection
• Web interface accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Web interface accessibility testing: None
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The Vendor Privileged Access Manger APIs enable you to automate tasks that are usually performed manually in the Vendor Privileged Access Manger console. Such tasks include provisioning and de-previsioning users and accessing audit data for review in a third party system.
• API automation tools: Ansible
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • Other
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility: Other
• Using the command line interface: Manage the Vendor Privileged Access Manger Connector and view information about its status

Scaling

• Scaling available: Yes
• Scaling type: Automatic
• 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.
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting:
  • Email
  • Other
• Other usage reporting: Account Manager

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: No

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: Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest: 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

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: No

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Communication between the Vendor Privileged Access Manger Cloud Service and the Vendor Privileged Access Manger Connector is held inside two layers of encryption by passing the existing TLS session over SSH, which fully secures the tunnel into the client environment. There is no connection between the CyberArk network and the Vendor Privileged Access Manger Cloud Service.
• 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 Privilege Cloud SaaS.; 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: Vendor Privileged Access Manger is deployed on an AWS platform and resides on three different Availability Zones (AZ), in a 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: In system notification

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Users are invited to use the Vendor Privileged Access Manger service by an admin. They are then required to register using their smartphone and the biometrics stored on this device. When they need access to Privilege using CyberArk a second invite is sent. Using a combination of their biometrics and a unique QR they authenticate using 2 factors to join access to a HTML5-hosted privileged session.
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access is restricted only to those who are invited and can be limited to a specific time period.
• 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: Users are invited to use the Vendor Privileged Access Manger service by an admin. They are then required to register using their smartphone and the biometrics stored on this device. When they need access to Privilege using CyberArk a second invite is sent. Using a combination of their biometrics and a unique QR they authenticate using 2 factors to join access to a HTML5-hosted privileged session.
• Devices users manage the service through: Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)

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
• 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: "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."
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: CyberArk utilizes a wide range of tools to monitor its network environment. Data is collected from devices and applications in the network and aggregated into the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) in order to detect and respond to possible anomalies and threats. The SIEM is monitored by a dedicated 24/7 security operation centre (SOC) to help rapidly detect and mitigate risks.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: CyberArk maintains a formalised incident response plan (IRP) and policy. The incident response policy defines how security incidents are identified, classified, reported, remediated and mitigated throughout incident response stages including post incident assessments. The CyberArk information security department promptly investigates reported anomalies and suspected security breaches on an enterprise-wide level.

Secure development

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

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: No

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: "CyberArk SaaS solutions are hosted on AWS. ; AWS is continuously working to increase the efficiency of our facilities, and our scale allows us to achieve higher resource utilization and efficiency than typical on-premises data centres. When possible, we incorporate direct evaporative technology for cooling our data centres, reducing energy and water consumption. During cooler months, outside air is directly supplied to the data centre without using any water. During the hottest months of the year, outside air is cooled through an evaporative process using water before being pushed into the server rooms, and we have optimized our cooling systems to minimize water usage. AWS has also demonstrated our commitment to water stewardship by using reclaimed or recycled water instead of potable water in multiple regions, and we are working with local utilities to expand the use of reclaimed water."

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: £37.00 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.