Osirium - Simple Secure Management

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Osirium is a solution that tackles the complexities of managing multi-box environments, whilst doing this it allows administrators to provide access rights, assign privileges, single sign on, provisioning and de-provisioning of systems, full audit trails and system templates

Osirium reduces operational risk and enables compliance and best practices to be met for Privileged Users by providing policy-based access control across a diverse range of devices, servers and applications.

It manages and maintains compliance in a multivendor environment, provides a single point of access to all network devices, this in turn allows superior auditing and management of passwords.

A key function is the system templates which can be tailored to run simple functions on devices which allow unskilled workers to take control of day-to-day tasks in a safe and controlled way, freeing up skilled administrators to continue working more complex tasks.

 

The Service We Provide

The majority of companies have multiple passwords and unknown access to their device infrastructure without any management leaving the most critical aspects of IT open to change etc.

Integral Specialist Services is a Premier Osirium partner and as such are able to assist you in regaining control of infrastructure, comply with many regulatory standards, and minimise the potential loss of revenue and reputation through penalty fines.

Osirium considerably reduces the insider threat from internal System Administrators, Contractors and Service Providers, while Privileged Users can maintain compliance standards and perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently through automation and delegation.

Osirium is an agent-less, virtual appliance that can be easily and rapidly deployed.

Please click below to download the service pdf’s

Osirium for Automation and Delegation

Osirium for Privileged User Management

Osirium for Compliance and Best Practice

 

Our Experience

The solution automates system administration tasks, such as provisioning and collecting diagnostics, to drive IT performance and meet/maintain compliance or best practices. 

Positioned at the heart of an organisations infrastructure, Osirium controls all system administration activities and provides a real-time overview, ensuring every change is accountable, traceable and auditable. Central to its compliance and best practice proposition, Osirium helps organisations achieve and then maintain conformance by measuring and remediating compliance gaps identified by its scheduled audits.

Osirium is an agent-less, virtual appliance that can be easily and rapidly deployed.

 

Before Osirium

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After Osirium

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Privileged User Management with Osirium

Osirium considerably reduces the insider threat from internal System Administrators, Contractors and Service Providers, while Privileged Users can maintain compliance standards and perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently through automation and delegation.

Osirium's Privileged User Management solution allows organisations to:

Govern IT Privileged User access and activities to infrastructure devices by:

  • Automatically creating unique and individual Privileged User accounts on infrastructure devices.
  • Ensuring all user access to devices pass through Osirium (which is, by default, a high availability solution). 
  • Assigning access rights to each Privileged User.
  • Allowing access times to be scheduled for Privileged Users.
  • Utilizing strong authentication and Single Sign-On for Privileged User access.
  • Restricting IT Privileged Users to predefined action list choices. 
  • Automating and scaling the provisioning and revocation of IT Privileged Users across multi-vendor devices. 


Eliminate the use of common administrator accounts on multi-vendor infrastructure devices by:

  • Securely hiding device administrator account details from IT Privileged Users.
  • Automatically creating individual Privileged User accounts on devices which are subsequently accessed through strong authentication and Single Sign-On.


Ensure that the strongest communication channel to the device is utilized by:

  • Securely tunnelling all communication between the Privileged User and Osirium, even if the protocol is inherently insecure, such as Telnet.
  • Using the most secure channel to communicate between Osirium and the device - organisations can determine what channel to use.


IT Automation & Delegation with Osirium

Osirium enables System Administrators to automate mundane SysAdmin tasks across multi-vendor devices making it easier to meet and maintain compliance and best practice requirements. More powerful tasks can also be created, alongside the standard ‘out-of-the box’ tasks, and then easily delegated to junior team members, the help desk or other parties, greatly reducing SysAdmin team workloads and building performance and efficiency benefits as a result. 

Osirium allows organisations to:

Free System Administrator resources from having to perform common SysAdmin tasks by:

  • Automating system administration tasks, such as provisioning, configurations, back-ups and diagnostic collections.
  • Scaling tasks across the entire multi-vendor estate. 
  • Delegating tasks to juniors, help-desk or 3rd parties.
  • Building custom SysAdmin tasks for bespoke customer requirements.


Reduce human SysAdmin errors and the time taken to correct them by:

  • Automating numerous common device and system management tasks across multi-vendor devices to eliminate human error.
  • Automating change by creating a pre-built BluePrint and “pushing” it out across multi-vendor devices.
  • Restricting certain individuals or groups to a select set of pre-defined tasks which are then executed automatically by Osirium.
  • Automating device back-ups before changes are made and providing rapid “roll-back” services should errors occur.


Automate the hardening of infrastructure devices by:

  • Defining parameters which are stored as a BluePrint and then applying the change automatically across selected multi-vendor devices.
  • Automatically pushing down provisioning settings to (multi-vendor) devices.
  • Performing BluePrint audits to ensure any parameter changes to devices are correct. A range of alerts and remediation options are available for incorrect device settings.


Rapidly build and implement powerful SysAdmin tasks across multi-vendor devices by:

  • Providing an interface that allows a system administrator to build powerful tasks that can be automated, repeatable and delegated by Osirium.
  • Automating numerous common device and system management tasks across multi-vendor devices to eliminate mistakes caused by human error.


IT Compliance & Best Practice with Osirium

Osirium ensures Privileged Users and infrastructure devices meet the multitude of industry and governmental compliance requirements along with internal best practices.

The current status of multi-vendor infrastructure devices can be checked against pre-defined BluePrints of desired parameters by Osirium in order to meet differing compliance and best practice requirements. Furthermore, the solution can remediate any gaps in accordance with the organisations policies.

Osirium allows organisations to:

Meet and maintain compliance and best practice requirements for IT Privileged Users and infrastructure devices by:

  • Governing IT Privileged User access to multi-vendor infrastructures.
  • Providing real time and historical visibility of Privileged User activities, who accessed what, when and which tasks were performed.
  • Comparing device parameter settings against compliance and best practice BluePrints and offering remediation options for any gaps identified.
  • Automating IT audits after device changes are made and presenting remediation options for any gaps identified.
  • Providing a “Network Operations Centre” dashboard that presents current status against compliance and SysOps requirements.
  • Generating reports to demonstrate IT compliance and best practice.
  • Providing governed access for IT auditors and compliance offices to self-serve their reports and data requirements in order to better audit compliance.


Benefits


Osirium offers organisations many unique benefits a number of which are listed below.

Securely Delegate Admin Tasks to your Help Desk Staff

  • Improves efficiency
  • Reduces ongoing cost of ownership 
  • Frees up senior staff for more critical projects


Personalised Administrator Access

  • Automatic creation of personalised accounts
  • Administrators never know the passwords for the end devices – no credential leakage 
  • No legacy accounts left on devices
  • Visibility and audit of all admin access to devices


Device Hardware and Software Inventory

  • Multi-vendor view of all devices incl. hardware model/type with software version and patch levels   
  • Identify versions with critical security vulnerabilities 
  • Plan hardware and software end of life upgrade projects


Backing-up a Diverse Range of Multi-Vendor Devices

  • Back-up request
  • Transfer of the resultant output file 
  • Space management on the end device


Device Shortcuts and Context Switching

  • Same route of access is used to get to all devices
  • Reduces staff errors and reinforces a rigorous procedure


Ensuring Adherence to Procedures

  • No more unaccountable, untraceable and unauditable change control incl. ineffective rollback plans   
  • All access and devices changes is personalised with full audit trail 
  • Automatic backups just before access and configuration changes


Managing “known faults”

  • SysAdmins now follow set procedures for change control in place of traditional case-by-case basis
  • Reduces operational risk, increased productivity and best practice compliance


Eliminate “side-stepping” from One Device to Another

  • No more use of common or shared credentials to connect “sideways” from one device to another
  • Administrators ONLY ever access devices via their Osirium login


Visibility of Device Access

  • Current live connections    
  • Historical audit trail of connections 
  • Last connection from a user 
  • Whether a user has ever connected or not


Compliance to Configuration Settings

  • No more repetitive human errors in configurations
  • Audit and “push-out” of standard build configurations across multiple and multi-vendor devices
  • Always maintains and meets compliance requirements

 
Central Management

  • All device and network configurations are now centrally managed


Reduces Business Risk

  • No more help desk delays in getting systems back up and running    


For an overview of the key service benefits follow this link to YouTube

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Costs

Osirium is an extremely cost-effective solution that mitigates the risks of fines as well as enabling compliance.   Each implementation of Osirium is unique and therefore costs vary depending on the number of devices that need secure management.


Comparisons

There is nothing currently available that has all the functionality with the ease of use as Osirium on the market today.


Our Guarantee

By implementing Osirium we guarantee to help eliminate all unknown and unwanted passwords with access to your infrastructure, delivering comprehensive visibility, complete compliance and total control over all devices.


Our Full Range of Services

Most of our clients are initially attracted by one of our services but most go on to use many of our other services.  Our focus is on saving clients budget in a wide range of areas, while improving operational efficiency.   Please do look at our services introduction page to see other areas in which we can help you.