8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
ARM (formerly 8MAN) is a user access rights solution that will continue to scale as your IT infrastructure grows
Key Features
- Identify and resolve high-risk access changes
- Minimize and monitor for insider threats
- Detect changes to improve compliance
- Quickly identify who has access to what
- Manage account provisioning
- Monitor group memberships
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Key Features
Features Overview
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Different name, same great product.
Enhance security
SolarWinds ARM access management system (formerly 8MAN software) can help mitigate insider threats with automated management, analysis, and enforcement.
Demonstrate compliance standards
Like 8MAN, Access Rights Manager can create and send reports to support regulatory compliance and audits.
User permissions management
Use templatized user provisioning and deprovisioning to help simplify user authentication and permissions management.
Support productivity
A popular feature in 8MAN, ARM also includes a self-service portal that allows data owners to delegate access to their owned resources.
Powerful and intuitive
8MAN, now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, is built to simplify threat protection for companies of all sizes.
Features Overview
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Different name, same great product.
Enhance security
SolarWinds ARM access management system (formerly 8MAN software) can help mitigate insider threats with automated management, analysis, and enforcement.
Demonstrate compliance standards
Like 8MAN, Access Rights Manager can create and send reports to support regulatory compliance and audits.
User permissions management
Use templatized user provisioning and deprovisioning to help simplify user authentication and permissions management.
Support productivity
A popular feature in 8MAN, ARM also includes a self-service portal that allows data owners to delegate access to their owned resources.
Powerful and intuitive
8MAN, now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, is built to simplify threat protection for companies of all sizes.
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When did 8MAN become SolarWinds Access Rights Manager?
When did 8MAN become SolarWinds Access Rights Manager?
8MAN Acquisition Timeline
In September 2018, SolarWinds announced a signed agreement to acquire 8MAN with plans to add the 8MAN products to its IT Security Management portfolio in Q4 2018. The 8MAN Access Rights Management solution was re-launched as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager in January 2019.
Why did SolarWinds acquire 8MAN?
Why did SolarWinds acquire 8MAN?
Why 8MAN
8MAN built and provided a solution designed to help IT operations and security admins improve their security by managing user access, helping to demonstrate compliance, and automating more time-consuming tasks like user provisioning and deprovisioning since 2009. By acquiring 8MAN and re-launching as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, SolarWinds is able to bring to market a powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use product designed to solve problems the way IT pros want them solved.
Will ARM provide the same visibility into access rights as 8MAN software?
Will ARM provide the same visibility into access rights as 8MAN software?
Same 8MAN Reporting Features
SolarWinds ARM, previously known as 8MAN access rights management, will also feature the ability to create and deliver customizable Active Directory reports designed to show detailed user access monitoring, particularly for users who have access to critical and sensitive data, to help support compliance requirements driven by GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, and other mandates.
Does ARM also focus on data loss prevention strategy for SharePoint?
Does ARM also focus on data loss prevention strategy for SharePoint?
Same 8MAN Permissions Management
SharePoint houses some of an organization’s most valuable assets and verifying the appropriate level of access isn’t easy to do.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Management and will continue to help simplify SharePoint permissions management by detailing who has access to what and monitoring when they accessed this data.
Can ARM help reduce the time it takes to report and audit user access rights like 8MAN?
Can ARM help reduce the time it takes to report and audit user access rights like 8MAN?
Same 8MAN Access Rights Features
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager includes the same core access rights features as 8MAN that can monitor suspicious account activity, including lockouts or unauthorized access attempts, and deliver custom Active Directory reports to help satisfy compliance requirements.
Can I automate user account provisioning and deprovisioning in ARM the same way I did with 8MAN?
Can I automate user account provisioning and deprovisioning in ARM the same way I did with 8MAN?
Same 8MAN automation
ARM (formerly 8MAN) is also built to standardize user credentials with role-specific templates, helping enable IT teams to create secure accounts at scale. Additionally, our self-service permissions portal delegates rights management to data owners for greater convenience.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
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