Anyone that has signed up for an internet service is at least vaguely aware of the complexities that companies face with managing information access and user accounts at a larger scale.

With its focus on privileged endpoint management, access management and process automation, Osirium Ltd. has emerged in the IT solutions space.

“Wherever a CIS admin has to do something on a machine that needs privilege, we like to be involved,” said Andy Harris (pictured), chief technology officer of Osirium. “Obviously, we like to be able to delegate all the way down to the business functions with Privileged Process Automation and with the EDB or the BDR part of that functionality in EDB, that really fits into our Privileged Access Management.”

Harris spoke with John Walls, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during Postgres Vision 2021. They discussed the larger EDB landscape from an Osirium standpoint and how Postgres, an open-source relational database management system, is helping to shape it. (* Disclosure below.)

Postgres as the future of EDB

The company uses Postgres as part of its node structure, allowing separate nodes in a cluster to each change credentials on a remote device.

“I’ll just quickly show you a slide of the architecture, which is as simple as we have these nodes, if you like, running EDB BDR, and they can perform log-ins to a target device using privileged credentials, which we control when we might be really long, up to about 128 characters,” Harris added, showing a visual illustration of the system’s inner workings.

Privileged Access Management can be a real asset to IT teams that have to juggle access to swarms of data from different angles, according to Harris.

“Before privilege access, [IT team members] will know the passwords. They keep passwords in a password vault or something like this. So they own the passwords and the credentials. But when you come along with a product like Privileged Access Management, you’re taking over management of those credentials and you’re protecting those systems from a whole wide range of threats,” Harris concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Postgres Vision 2021. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Postgres Vision event. Neither EnterpriseDB Corp., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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