Are Your Automated Workloads a Security Nightmare Waiting to Happen?

Hackers don’t discriminate. If they can’t impersonate a user to commit their acts, they could impersonate a job. That batch job you run every night at 2 AM with Task Scheduler or Cron? That one that has a plaintext password in the source code? Someone could wreak havoc if they had access to run that job on their terms. Even worse, they could steal credentials from that job and use them to access other systems!

Which begs the question, how do you get the efficiency of workload automation without creating new security loopholes?

To find out, attend this webinar where experts from Helpsystems will show you how to lock down critical batch processes and ensure that they can’t be executed or modified by the wrong people. You’ll learn how to:

• Safely store the sensitive data (i.e. credentials, connection strings, and passwords) needed to execute jobs and give specific limited rights to the users who create, schedule, and monitor critical workloads.
• Leverage service accounts that grant access for specific tasks/processes. (Eliminate the need for the ‘super admin’ role – a hacker’s dream!)
• Consolidate job definitions in a secure repository rather than leaving them scattered across various servers, many of which lack enterprise security.
  

Speakers

Tim Shaw
Support engineer
HelpSystems

Tim assists customers with HelpSystems' products in the automation and security space, providing pre and post-sales support and professional services. He collaborates on proof-of-concept trials, implementation and product support.

With many years of experience in the information technology industry and during his career, he's been a systems designer, developer, integrator, systems administrator, consultant and trainer.

Tim works on our JAMS Scheduler (Workload Automation and job scheduling), Automate (Robotic Process Automation) and GoAnywhere, our Managed File Transfer solution.

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