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Web Service announced for PUM V2.3
4th March 2010
PERTH, Western Australia. March 4th, 2010: Perth software house, Applecross Technologies Pty Ltd. ("APTECH") today announced General Availability of a web service for V2.3 of its Privileged User Manager ® ("PUM") software. PUM provides users with the first, commercial-strength privileged account (super user) monitoring, management and auditing package for UNIX and Linux based systems that is available at no greater a cost than a supported version of an open source alternative.
PUM allows end user organizations to centrally manage, monitor and audit the use of super user accounts, providing an indelible audit trail of all activity. The new PUMService provides PUM users with a number of web service methods that provision the maintenance of PUM objects. The web methods available are those most likely to require external connectivity to common or shared data stored within the PUM database, such as user information and managed hosts. PUMService is a SOAP-based web service and is described in accordance with the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL).
PUMService also provides organizations with the option of extracting audit trail information from the encrypted data held on a PUM Audit Server.
Neil Chaney, CEO of Applecross Technologies said, "PUM has been taken up by very large end user organizations who need to support thousands of Managed Servers and hundreds of privileged users. The new PUMService gives those organizations a way of populating the PUM database in bulk on day one, and maintaining that information from an external data source over time."
Chaney went on to say, “In particular, we had a requirement from various end users to allow bulk update of the PUM database from various human resources packages. The new PUMService provides an interface to which that data can be presented.”
Chaney ended by saying, “PUM V2.3 was architected for large users of UNIX and Linux servers and PUMService makes it even easier for those organizations to implement and maintain PUM.”
The software is sold and supported worldwide by Applecross Technologies Pty Ltd., its strategic partner - Open Systems Management (“OSM”) in Europe and the Americas - and authorized resellers.
The software is offered on an annual subscription license basis only, and the annual fee includes the license, support and all upgrades. Pricing is set at US$1.00 per system per day, or US$365 per system per year. Discounts are provided for volume purchases.
About Applecross Technologies Pty Ltd.
Applecross Technologies (APTECH) - a privately held company, founded in 2005 and based out of Perth in Western Australia - develops and markets low cost, high quality security management software for UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. The software is supported worldwide out of offices in Perth, the UK and Seattle, WA, USA.
For further information, contact Neil Chaney:
Tel. +61 (0)8 9317 6855
Mailto:neil.chaney@applecrosstech.com