Arming Educators With The Right Tools – Free Subscription For Stealthbits Privileged Activity Manager®
Complimentary one-year subscription of our Privileged Access Management solution
A Special Offer For Our Educators
Let Us Focus On Securing Privacy Of Student Information So You Can Focus On Education
Stealthbits wants to honor the extraordinary measures of educators and their resource-constrained IT administrators in the age of COVID-19 remote learning with a special offer: a free one-year subscription to Stealthbits Privileged Activity Manager® (SbPAM) software.
Why are we offering a full version of our SbPAM solution for one year?
Educators and their IT admins have gone above and beyond to keep schools focused on teaching and students on learning, despite the constant strain and stress of fighting a surge in cybersecurity breaches.
According to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware attacks within the education sector jumped to 80% of reported malware-related incidents, compared to 45% the prior year. An increase in financially motivated incidents appears to drive the growth of ransomware across the education sector. Phishing attacks occurred in 28% of breaches while hacking via stolen credentials took place in 23% of the incidents.
Recent attacks have resulted in online learning delays and IT outages as well as leaks in student records, research, financial data and personally identifiable information. In some cases, school districts and universities have made six-figure payments to recover encrypted or stolen data.
Stealthbits SbPAM is ideal for educational institutions as it uses a task-based approach, which gives IT admins and privileged business users just-in-time, temporary access to the data they need to perform a specific task. Once the task is completed, access is removed, significantly reducing the “attack surface” hackers exploit to gain access to networks and systems.
SbPAM is unlike traditional PAM solutions, which are complicated and require extensive expertise to deploy and manage. In most cases, SbPAM can be installed in less than an hour, which means we can quickly get you using and benefiting from the product without a significant investment in services to get up and running.
Reduce opportunity for lateral movement attacks through privileged account reduction.
SbPAM is unlike traditional PAM solutions, which are complicated and require extensive expertise to deploy and manage. In most cases, SbPAM can be installed in less than an hour, which means we can quickly get you using and benefiting from the product without a significant investment in services to get up and running.
Stealthbits Privileged Activity Manager enables secure, task-based administrative access delivered just-in-time and with just-enough privilege.
Key Features
Just-in-Time, Temporary Privilege Accounts
Use SbPAM “Activity Tokens” to provide temporary permission and access that are auto-provisioned when needed and de-provisioned when not, reducing your attack surface and potential for lateral movement attacks.
Access Certification
Built-in access certification facilities allow unique ability to approve or deny who should and should not have access to SbPAM and privileged activities.
Session Recording & Playback
Enforce accountability or gain evidence during investigations with the ability to record and playback sessions. Live monitoring with lock, block, and remote terminate functions.
Delegated Administration
Delegate administrative tasks to less-technical personnel safely to alleviate administrative burden. Develop Connection Profiles with policies to govern activities. Profile changes are made centrally and apply everywhere automatically.
DirectConnect Sessions
Don’t change the way you have grown accustomed to working. With DirectConnect sessions, Admins can launch SbPAM activities from their tool of choice (e.g. Remote Desktop Connection Manager; MobaXterm) with no need to log into SbPAM.
Bring Your Own Vault™ (BYOV)
Support for existing, alternative, or multiple Remote Secret Stores allow for fast & easy integration. Use your existing vault, our vault, or no vault…choice is yours.
Credential Management
Regardless if 10 or 10,000 systems, we bring under management with a few clicks. For further convenience, we have a policy inheritance engine so no need to define accounts per-device.
Federation & Smart Card Authentication
For user convenience saving authentication time, SbPAM can consume pre-authenticated identities from identity providers like Okta, Ping Identity, ADFS, & more. We can also accept smart cards instead of typical log-in.
Real-Time Service Account Management
See updates and status changes as they happen. Immediate alerting if issues discovered, with options to pause and roll-back changes.
About The Offer
U.S-based K-12 schools as well as public colleges and universities, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), can take advantage of Stealthbits’ complimentary one-year SbPAM software subscription until June 30, 2021.
In addition to receiving SbPAM free of charge for that period, education customers will gain access to Stealthbits’ Learning Management System (LMS), which contains online tutorials, videos and training materials.
After one year, school administrators can renew their subscriptions for an additional year at a nominal cost. A maintenance fee of $1,500 will be charged for five or fewer users; administrative teams comprising 20 or fewer users will be charged $2,500. Additional user licenses can be purchased for $250 per user.
The total value of Stealthbits’ SbPAM offer starts at around $10,000 and extends to more than $100,000, depending upon the size of the school district, public college or university as well as the number of administrators and accounts requiring privileged access.