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Defender, Sentry, and Guardian certified CyberArk consultants ready to protect your most sensitive accounts.
CyberArk is the dominant platform in Privileged Access Management (PAM). Where identity governance tools like SailPoint ask "who should have access," CyberArk asks "when privileged users do access sensitive systems, how do we control, monitor, and audit every action they take?" The platform achieves this through three core mechanisms: credential vaulting (storing shared and service account passwords in an encrypted, access-controlled vault), session management (brokering and recording privileged sessions so no credential is exposed directly to the operator), and automated credential rotation (eliminating static passwords that sit unchanged for months or years).
This combination addresses one of the most persistent attack patterns in enterprise breaches: the lateral movement of a compromised privileged account. When credentials are vaulted and rotated, and every session is proxied and recorded, the blast radius of a compromised workstation shrinks dramatically.
The CyberArk portfolio has expanded significantly since the original Digital Vault product. Our consultants have hands-on experience across:
Vault migrations — upgrading from an aging self-hosted vault to either a newer self-hosted version or to Privilege Cloud. Migration scope includes re-platforming the vault server, re-creating safe structures and platform policies, migrating existing accounts and passwords, and updating CPM rotation policies. Our consultants know exactly which platform fields and policies require manual reconstruction versus which can be exported and re-imported.
Jenkins and CI/CD integration — development teams need a way to retrieve database credentials, API keys, and service account passwords from the vault at pipeline runtime without storing secrets in code. We staff engineers who configure the CyberArk Jenkins plugin, Conjur Summon, or REST API-based retrieval, and who advise on safe structure design that balances security boundaries with developer self-service.
PSM for SSH and RDP — many PAM programmes get vaulting right but underestimate the complexity of PSM deployment, particularly for SSH target servers. Our consultants configure PSM connection components, troubleshoot target platform profiles, and integrate with ticketing systems for just-in-time access workflows.
CyberArk's certification ladder provides meaningful signal about a consultant's genuine depth:
We require Defender as a baseline for all active bench CyberArk consultants and verify credentials before placement.
The two most common commercial models for CyberArk work are contract staffing — a specialist placed for a defined period to deliver a specific phase — and managed services, where we take ongoing responsibility for vault health, rotation policy maintenance, certification renewals, and new application onboarding. Clients at different programme maturity levels need different models, and we scope each engagement based on the client's internal PAM team capability.
CyberArk is an explicit control in several major compliance frameworks. PCI-DSS Requirement 7 and 8 mandate access controls and privileged account management; CyberArk vaulting and session management satisfy these requirements directly. SOX IT general controls require evidence that privileged access to financial systems is monitored and audited — CyberArk session recordings and vault audit trails support this. HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards require controls on access to systems containing PHI — a combination of CyberArk vaulting and EPM addresses workstation and server-level privileged access. See our healthcare industry page for detail on healthcare-specific PAM programme design.
PAM programmes rarely run in isolation. A mature identity programme integrates CyberArk with an IGA platform like SailPoint — so that access certifications include privileged accounts alongside standard entitlements — and with an access management layer like Okta — so that privileged users authenticate with strong MFA before checking out a vaulted credential. Our cross-platform bench means we can staff the full identity stack, not just the PAM layer in isolation. The SailPoint-CyberArk integration pattern, in particular, is one of the most requested multi-tool engagements we support.