Imprivata Privileged Access Management Product Update 2.3.202011152244

November 15, 2020

PAM Update: Added the option to terminate sessions with no recent session events, added active-active multi-node deployment based on fractional primary key database replication

This update adds the option to terminate sessions with no recent session events and active-active multi-node deployment based on fractional primary key database replication.

Added the option to terminate sessions with no recent session events

In addition to regular session idle timeout, this update introduces the option to terminate active WEB or Native sessions based on the lack of recent session events such as keystrokes or clipboard transfers even in case of keep-alive packets maintaining session active.

The option enforces best security practices for remote sessions to remain as short as needed despite the convenience of maintaining long-running sessions to remote servers.

Added the option for active-active multi-node deployment based on fractional primary key database replication

The update enables cleaner activity separation between multiple nodes in High Availability deployments based on database replication with fractional primary keys.

In this configuration nodes in the high availability cluster are built on independently replicated databases generating even, odd or multiple primary keys separating data generated by specific nodes.

The update added indicator parameter xtam.replication.sequence of node sequence in multi-node High Availability setup.

The parameter is given in the form of sequence/total where the sequence (1, 2, 3, …) is the sequence of the node in the HA cluster and the total is the total number of nodes in the cluster.

Among other options, the node will only send notifications about events generated by this node to avoid duplication of alerts, schedule or execute jobs for the records created by the same node to avoid executing multiple jobs for the same record.