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"Lieberman Software's Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM) provides new levels of visibility and control for cloud service providers and large enterprises to secure privileged identities."

"With this version of ERPM, cloud service providers can assure both customers and IT auditors that privileged access to sensitive data is continuously monitored and secured."

"Lieberman Software will launch a new rev of its ID management product called Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM). Lieberman said ERPM works best when sitting on a secure enterprise OS such as Windows 7."

"Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM) that now delivers fine-grain management features to protect every asset in the cloud infrastructure – including physical and virtual computers and network appliances, hypervisors, databases, middleware, line-of-business applications, and more."

"ERPM continuously discovers, secures, and grants fully audited, role-based administrative access to physical and virtual IT assets within the cloud infrastructure."

"Enterprise Random Password Manager Helps Cloud Service Providers and Large Enterprises Manage and Secure Privileged Identities."

The new version of Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM) adds the capability for cloud service providers to delegate different levels of privileged access, audit and compliance reporting to end-customers.

Philip Lieberman discusses his thoughts on the Floyd Landis security hack in this newscast.

Lieberman said he would like to ask the lab who had access to the system. "An interesting question about this," he said, "is was there a third party involved that had authorization to get through the firewall to see results and shared that account?"

"In this article, Phil Lieberman argues that last year's data breach at Heartland was less the fault of the company's, and more the result of the lack of smart card technology that credit card issuers refuse to issue in the United States."

 "This type of bug/limitation is not particularly surprising given that this type of exploit requires that a hacker have a very high technical capability as well as the ability to tap into secure network sessions," Lieberman said. "It is an interesting technical exploit, but not particularly likely."

"They have to ask themselves the question, 'Where do we have accounts? Tell me all of the places where we have accounts and tell me all the things they use these accounts for?'" says Phil Lieberman of Lieberman Software, which specializes in privileged user management.

"Commercial organizations can rarely defend themselves against sophisticated government attacks," said Phil Lieberman, chief executive of Lieberman Software, a Los Angeles security software firm.

Last year "was the year that the fraud of PCI audits as a security methodology became public," said Phil Lieberman, president of security software and services firm Lieberman Software. "Namely, it was only a point-in-time audit that could leave a company vulnerable unless the company instituted real and continuous security."

"The Heartland incident showed in no uncertain manner that compliance with standards such as PCI are meaningless unless there is a way of monitoring that compliance on a continuous basis, said Philip Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, a Los Angeles-based vendor of identity management products."

Philip Lieberman discusses current cyber security threats and the challenges to resolving them in his article "Building Legal Frameworks for CyberSecurity Change".

"Once a single computer is compromised, the intruders leapfrog from system to system, compromising highly sensitive privileged accounts throughout the organization until the infrastructure is mapped and its most valued information can be extracted quickly enough to render conventional safeguards powerless."

"Lieberman Software provides privileged ID management for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server."

"SharePoint Server makes extensive use of privileged accounts for its processes, and is an example of an enterprise service that could benefit from Lieberman Software's Enterprise Random Password Manager."

"Given the high value of the traffic on Wall Street and One WTC [World Trade Center], pager interception complexity and physical proximity are not a problem for someone looking to get a leg up on the financial system," Lieberman said.

"User Manager Pro helps organizations in all major vertical markets locate and remove rogue users, groups, and group memberships, change administrator passwords, discover and remove unauthorized shares, determine who is in the administrator group, find stale user accounts and, with Cratering, mediate virus infections – including zero-day infections that bypass conventional antivirus solutions."

"Even the DBA can make a difference in terms of whether they're utilizing best practices in setting access controls," says Philip Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, an account and password management firm. "The DBAs are really the core of this because they're really the protectors of the database."

"Secure access control for Oracle included in Lieberman’s Enterprise Random Password Manager."

Security mavens like the idea of going deep into the anatomy of an application rather than just relying on antivirus software or operating system security functions. For instance, Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, called EMET "a good value-add for Microsoft ISVs [independent software vendors]."

"The other major announcement was from Lieberman Software, which unveiled a privileged identity management solution for the Oracle Ecosystem."

"Lieberman Software has integrated its privileged identity management solution, Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM), with Oracle."

"For example, Lieberman notes, many organizations leave themselves at risk when they fail to encrypt database backup tapes. The data may be secure on the server, but if someone with ill intent gets hold of the unencrypted tape, then it will be compromised all the same."

"Philip Lieberman will give a breakout session on How to Protect Your Government Agency with Backend IT Controls"

"The London-based University of Westminster has chosen a utility from Lieberman Software to manage privileged user accounts."

"In my experience, Microsoft tends to react proportionately to the amount of ink given to an issue brought up by vendors or the press," Lieberman said. "Real or fictitious threats all get a hearing and a response."

"Remote wipe capabilities are another helpful solution for devices frequently traveling beyond the confines of the organization, notes Philip Lieberman, CEO and president of Lieberman Software, a company providing enterprise solutions for security and systems management."

SC Magazine Awards Enterprise Random Password Manager 5 out of 5 stars in product review.

“We need to control and audit access to all of the privileged account passwords in our network, and decided on Lieberman Software’s ERPM for its automated account discovery capabilities, auditing features, and productivity benefits,” said Jonathan Hughes, User Systems Manager at the University of Westminster.

"When it comes to protecting an organization’s critical digital assets, compliance cannot be a some of the time process – it must be all of the time...Potential security threats are constantly evolving; meaning IT managers must be constantly monitoring their networks to safeguard the company’s most sensitive data."

"Philip Lieberman, president and CEO of Lieberman Software, says PCI DSS is a good idea that has improved the overall security of credit card payment handlers, but it has some serious flaws."

"The job of a privileged password management technology is to inventory all systems, accounts, passwords and where they are used."

Founder and President of Lieberman Software, Philip Lieberman, will speak at Government IT Conference in October.

"The unauthorized extraction of information is epidemic and essentially unstoppable," says Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, which makes password security systems.

"Lieberman Software has gained Windows 7 compatibility on its privileged identity management and security management software."

"Lieberman Software Announces New Version of Privileged Account Management Solution."

"Identity and access management vendors to watch."

"First, the always fascinating Phil Lieberman (founder and CEO of Lieberman Software) weighed in on our recent discussions. My position has been that in theory IDaaS makes sense. [But] I believe that the IDaaS model breaks down in many areas."

"The fundamental flaw with this practice is the serious security implications and regulatory compliance violations that occur if the local password on even one system is compromised."

"Version 5.0 of the Enterprise Reset Console offers increased protection for sensitive user account passwords and enhanced enterprise performance and scalability."

"Lieberman Software’s has announced Account Reset Console 5.0, offering increased protection for sensitive user account passwords and enhanced enterprise performance and scalability."

"Lieberman Software President and CEO Phil Lieberman thought that Microsoft's product pipeline would soon be delivering a large number of significant product upgrades, and that the show sessions did a good job of preparing attendees for the upcoming product upgrade cycles."

"But not everyone was satisfied with the report. Phil Lieberman, of Lieberman Software, criticized what he called its punitive tone. “They’re suggesting in this paper that if you don’t have good security, that you’ll be punished for it. The problem is that this is an evolving threat,” he said. “They seem to be waving the stick around a lot without having any serious carrots."

"Phil Lieberman, CEO,  Lieberman Software:  There needs to a be a bright line of reasonable care for enterprises as well as incentives to implement strengthened cyber security."

"The report also introduces a number of new cybersecurity concepts -- for example, a legal standard of care. Such a standard would give organizations a clear sense of what is expected of them at the commercial level, Philip Lieberman, president and CEO of Lieberman Software, told TechNewsWorld."

"We have about 10 different products, ranging from password synchronization tools to privileged identity management tools to local security management tools. Some of our products are used by IT administrators, and others are used by CSOs, CIOs, and IT auditors."

"Phil Lieberman, of Lieberman Software, has an interesting take on the topic...The bottom line he said, too many people, have too much access, to too many systems, for too long…"

"Enterprise Random Password Manager and Random Password Manager feed events to Systems Center based on password change, password verification, and password check-in/check-out job results."

"Lieberman Software products integrate seamlessly with System Center Operations Manager to alert administrators to what users and the Help Desk are doing with privileged accounts from a single console."

"As a result, Lieberman stresses the need for financial data centers to be both vigilant and paranoid about internal and external threats, because the assumption always exists that their infrastructures have been—or will soon be—compromised."

"Magix integration has signed an agreement with US-based Lieberman Software to distribute and support its Random Password Manager solution for enterprise and SME companies..."

"Security vendor Lieberman Software also posted a survey of IT and security pros that indicates 60.7 percent of respondents work at organizations that have reduced their IT budgets in 2009. Some 40 percent of the respondents have reduced staff since January, the report states."

"Among the most secure password systems are those that use the principles of least privilege and need to know, which limit the user’s ability to access resources to only that which is necessary to do the job at hand, said Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software Corp."

Enterprise Random Password Manager Wins Tomorrow's Technology Today Award for Privileged Account Password Management.

"Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software and a vocal critic of government efforts to put forth a far-reaching and comprehensive IT security standard, points to the recent hacks of power grids as endemic of a larger problem."

"While all privileged account managers can scan a network or Windows domain looking for systems to manage, Lieberman Software's Enterprise Random Password Manager extends its discovery of passwords to manage beyond typical operating system accounts."

"Why is security given short shrift at some enterprises? Philip Lieberman, founder of Lieberman Software (a security management vendor), says a big reason is the enterprise’s culture, starting at the top."

"Hysteria is a good description of the situation," said Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software. "The Conficker April first date is more like a feeding frenzy for the anti-virus vendors akin to Black Friday for retailers or the week before Super Bowl Sunday for electronics retailers selling big screen TVs."

"Commenting on the proceedings, security software veteran Phil Lieberman, founder and CEO of Lieberman Software, said it is clear that the President is the ultimate "big hammer" when it comes to making government agencies cooperate and behave properly, but as with any CEO, he cannot be everywhere and needs clear policies that take care of the majority of situations that occur each day."

"Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, a Los Angeles-based security software maker, said the new administration faces a tough job balancing privacy and civil liberties issues with the real need to help secure the Internet, a major engine of the world's economic activity."

"[Lieberman] says there has been a complete void of any government policies laying out who has primary responsibilities for mitigating cyber threats against  the private and public sectors."

"[Enterprise Random Password Manager] adds zone processing for geographically dispersed environments, encrypted vaults and audit-compliance reporting."

"Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software in Los Angeles and a 30-year player in the cyber security field, praised Obama's decision to review the government's cyber security efforts."

"The move drew praise from the technology industry. Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, said that the United States has lacked a coordinated policy on cyberwarfare."

"Lieberman noted that this incident was the first time that Monster.com had publicly announced such a theft...He recommended that Monster.com implement compartmentalization of its critical and not-so-critical information assets."

"Lieberman explained that newer operating systems were more secure by design, but the majority of home users and SMB organizations were incapable of managing even the most basic security aspects of their PC's."

"If you want to secure those accounts whose passwords never get changed, and need to audit who has access to these passwords, then Enterprise Random Password Manager is the solution for you."

Lieberman Software's Chris Stoneff describes how the root password on Mac systems can be managed by automated processes.

"In other cases, as Lieberman Software's Chris Stoneff pointed out in an article for Microsoft TechNet, enterprises tell the IT department's entire staff what a password is. The more people who know a secret, the more likely it will become public knowledge, he wrote."

"With little effort from the administra­tor, this product can seek out and change all passwords, including system service accounts. This provides solid security across the entire environment."

"Richard and Greg talk to Chris Stoneff of Lieberman Software about the challenges of passwords. The discussion ranges from password alternatives to complexity policy and privileged account password management." 

"Kuppinger actually attributes the idea to Lieberman Software's Kevin Franks, who should know since Privileged Account Management (PAM) is a big area for his company."

"The issue of shared account password management must be addressed. This means you should obtain a method of reliably and regularly changing your passwords."

"Lieberman Software shares with our enterprise customers the vision that virtualization is the future of the datacenter."

"By supporting Hyper-V, Random Password Manager can automatically update every local administrator password on virtual Windows servers in the enterprise."

"So why should you care about these boring, hum-drum privileged accounts? Because these accounts have elevated access rights, meaning those with access can bypass the internal controls of the target platform."

For some third-party security software providers that work closely with Microsoft, it's also been trying at times. "It's been a roller coaster," says Phil Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software, which makes password and administrative management tools that work with Microsoft desktop and server products.

"[Enterprise Random Password Manager] especially shines in environments where server account passwords are used in a cascading manner, for other servers, applications or services."

"Random Password Manager is designed to protect organizations from a catastrophic compromise of their IT infrastructure's security."

"[Random Password Manager] solves the problem of keeping the same password across the network for administrator accounts, and likewise keeps the IT team from keeping a massive list of passwords on an internal site."

"RSA SecurID technology helps to ensure that only staff with physical possession of an RSA SecurID hardware authenticator and properly provisioned credentials can access the passwords generated and stored by Lieberman Software products."

"Random Password Manager can remotely set every Cisco IOS device to different password, and can recover the current password for each device using a secure web interface."