Secure Endpoints and Servers with Identity-First Zero Trust
The modern attack surface extends to every user at every endpoint, where any identity can become privileged under the right circumstances. Security programs must move beyond spotty access management practices and traditional PAM tools that focus heavily on IT admins and developers. Extend Zero Trust and Identity Security to your endpoints and servers with intelligent, foundational controls that secure every human identity. Shrink your attack surface and stop breaches where they so often start.
CHALLENGES
Hidden risks that undermine your endpoint defenses
Breaches persist despite investments in detection and response tools, largely due to weak identity and privilege controls. Overprivileged users, unmanaged apps, standing admin rights, lack of identity assurance and inconsistent policies undermine cybersecurity programs. These gaps leave organizations vulnerable, drive operational inefficiencies, and increase costs. For CIOs pursuing Zero Trust, these challenges create critical barriers to building a secure and resilient cybersecurity strategy
Persistent attack surface
Local admin rights and excessive application permissions create entry points for threat actors. Once an endpoint is compromised, attackers can move laterally across network, leading to a major breach.
Security vs. productivity gridlock
Revoking all local admin rights grinds business to a halt, burying your helpdesk. Blanket approvals restore speed but defeat the purpose of least privilege.
Policy gaps and tool sprawl
Managing privileges across diverse endpoint and server environments leads to inconsistent policies, reporting gaps, and a complex, costly stack of point solutions with no unified visibility.
Rising audit and insurance pressures
Auditors and cyber insurers demand provable least privilege. Failing to demonstrate effective controls can result in failed audits, non-compliance penalties, and increased insurance premiums.
SOLUTIONS
Secure endpoints and servers with intelligent privilege controls
CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager enforces policy-driven least privilege to eliminate standing local admin rights and control application execution across all your endpoints and servers. As a key part of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform, it provides a foundational endpoint security layer that reduces your attack surface, delivers continuous compliance, and strengthens operational resilience without impacting business velocity.
Proactively reduce cyber risk
Stop attacks at the source by removing the privileges they depend on. CyberArk replaces risky standing admin rights with policy-based, just-in-time elevation for specific applications and tasks. This zero trust approach contains threats by default and helps secure endpoints and servers with consistent, enforceable controls. By controlling what can run and with what permissions, you neutralize entire classes of threats, including ransomware and credential theft, before they cause damage. This allows you to implement a robust cybersecurity framework that is both effective and efficient.
Achieve continuous compliance
Move from reactive, last-minute audit preparation to a state of continuous, provable compliance. CyberArk provides a detailed, unalterable audit trail of all privileged activity on every endpoint and server, making it simple to demonstrate compliance and pass audits for frameworks like NIST, PCI DSS, and ISO. With centralized reporting and standardized controls, you can confidently answer auditor and insurer questionnaires. This clarity also empowers you to improve board-level risk communication by presenting clear, data-driven evidence of your strong security posture.
Drive operational efficiency
Free your IT and security teams from the burden of manual privilege management. CyberArk allows you to automate and optimize identity security processes, boosting efficiency across the board. Our policy engine transparently elevates privileges for approved applications, reducing the number of privilege-related tickets. For exceptions, a self-service request workflow can be fully automated, drastically reducing helpdesk load. This powerful automation helps address cybersecurity talent burnout by allowing your expert teams to focus on strategic initiatives instead of repetitive administrative tasks.
Strengthen business resilience
Build a security foundation that adapts to changing risks without halting business operations. When an incident is detected, you can respond to cyber threats faster by using granular, identity-based controls to contain the threat—without taking the entire system offline. This targeted approach helps improve cyber resilience and recovery for both on-prem and cloud assets. As part of a unified platform, this solution also allows you to consolidate vendors for identity and privileged controls, reducing complexity, lowering TCO, and simplifying security management across your entire enterprise.
KEY CAPABILITIES & FEATURES
How we secure every identity at the endpoint
We deliver a comprehensive set of intelligent, identity-first controls that are foundational to any modern zero trust architecture. These capabilities work in concert to remove unnecessary privileges, control application activity, and stop attackers before they can establish a foothold, all while remaining transparent to the end-user.
Policy-based privilege elevation
Elevate privileges on-demand for approved applications and tasks, transparently to the user. The user never becomes a full admin, which helps minimize the risk.
Local admin rights removal
Automatically discover, remove, and manage standing local admin privileges across your entire fleet of endpoints and servers to significantly reduce a primary attack vector.
Granular application control
Go beyond simple block/allow lists. Control how applications can execute, what resources they can access, and help prevent misuse of legitimate software in an attack.
Just-in-time admin access
For rare exceptions, grant users temporary, fully-audited administrative access for a limited time, with rights automatically revoked when the session ends.
Continuous identity assurance
Validate user identity with phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) before any privilege elevation, ensuring that the person requesting access is who they claim to be.
Identity-based incident response
Add granular response options to EDR/XDR playbooks, including targeted privilege restrictions and re-authentication challenges, containing threats without resorting to full system isolation.
BENEFITS & VALUES
Measurable outcomes from the leader in identity security
Leverage our expertise and proven technology to boost endpoint security and operational efficiency. According to IDC’s « Business Value Assessment of CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager, » our customers see measurable results, including stronger security and cost savings, directly impacting their bottom line. Let us help you achieve these outcomes and more.
on average ROI over 3 years
average annual benefits per organization
reduction in over-privileged accounts on average
lower risk of malware spread
fewer tickets for privilege elevation
more efficient IAM teams
RESOURCES
Insights to guide your identity-first security strategy
Explore curated resources based on our experience helping thousands of global organizations solve their most complex security challenges. Gain the insights you need to build a more secure, efficient, and resilient enterprise.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? We have answers. Find more information about how our solution can help you secure your endpoints and servers.
It’s a powerful combination. While EDR/XDR tools are essential for detecting and responding to active threats, our solution acts as a foundational prevention layer. By removing the excessive privileges that most attacks rely on, we reduce the overall attack surface, which in turn cuts down on alert noise and allows your SOC and EDR/XDR to focus on the most sophisticated threats. Our granular response capabilities also integrate with EDR alerts to contain threats at the identity level.
No, quite the opposite. This is a common concern with manual approaches, but our solution is designed to solve this exact problem. We use policy-based elevation that runs transparently in the background. Users can run approved applications and perform necessary tasks without even noticing a change. For exceptions, a self-service portal allows them to request access, which can be automatically approved based on policy, reducing helpdesk tickets by up to 40%.
It’s a foundational pillar of any successful zero trust architecture. Zero trust is built on the principle of « never trust, always verify » and enforcing least privilege. Our solution operationalizes this at the endpoint by removing standing privileges, verifying identity with MFA before elevating access, and granting just-in-time permissions for only the specific task at hand. This helps ensure every access request from every endpoint is scrutinized and secured.
Traditional PAM focuses primarily on securing a small number of powerful IT administrator and service accounts. Our approach modernizes PAM by recognizing that any identity can become privileged. We extend identity-first security controls to every user on every endpoint—not just servers. This provides comprehensive protection against the initial point of compromise for most modern breaches.
Our solution provides unified policy management and consistent controls across all major workstation and server operating systems, whether they are on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model. You can define a single security policy for least privilege and application control and apply it everywhere, closing dangerous gaps and simplifying administration for your heterogeneous environment.
We prioritize rapid time-to-value. Our SaaS-based solution, combined with proven methodologies like the CyberArk Blueprint and QuickStart templates, help ensure a streamlined deployment. We help you start by discovering where privileges exist, then move to a monitor-only mode to fine-tune policies without user impact, and finally transition to active enforcement. Our goal is to get you up and running quickly and demonstrate measurable risk reduction from day one.
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Stop chasing threats and start preventing them. Secure your endpoints and servers with intelligent privilege controls to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and build a more resilient business.
