Armadillo Managed Services announces strategic partnership with protected-networks

Armadillo Managed Services has announced its strategic partnership with protected-networks, provider of access rights management solution 8MAN.
Armadillo, a ‘Boutique Integrator’ of IT Security Solutions, comes with an extensive portfolio of complimentary offerings. These are designed to help companies ensure that their information is secure, available to the right people, accessible whenever and wherever it is required, whilst maintaining the Integrity of that information. Armadillo will now also offer protected-networks’ 8MAN – an intuitive access rights, manage solution that helps clients achieve a high level of comfort and confidence while managing user credentials and meeting auditing procedures.

8MAN with its simple user interface, intelligent features and comprehensive reporting tools is a breakthrough solution – changing the way how access rights are traditionally managed. It integrate various technologies, namely Windows files server, SharePoint, Exchange and Active Directory to give a consolidated overview of changing roles and permissions. Through 8MAN clients can extract actionable intelligence to guarantee that all users have only the necessary permissions and that there are no conflicting privileges assigned to anyone. Direct benefits of the solution can be witnessed during the auditing process, and significant cost and time saving.

Mark Newns, CEO at Armadillo, added: “8MAN is a natural fit for our portfolio. Security challenges around Active Directory continue to remain a big concern for our clients, which 8MAN aptly addresses. As budgets shrink, there is huge demand for IAM solutions that do more while curtailing costs and enhance productivity – 8MAN does just that. Also, by actively involving the business users in the process it makes data security everyone’s responsibility, which is undeniably the need of the hour. We are confident that with 8MAN we can offer great value to our customer base.”

Commenting on the development Stephan Brack, CEO protected-networks, said: “By collaborating with Armadillo, we ensure a strong representation for 8MAN in the UK. They have an unmatched insight into the changing business needs as well as deep understanding of the security domain. This partnership is an important step forward – enabling us to reach out to larger customer base who seek a new approach to access management.”