Sber switches to Russian decision to protect privileged employee accounts

2025: Transition to BI.Zone PAM

Sber abandoned the foreign PAM Privileged Access Management system in favor of the Russian solution. BI.ZONE PAM Sberbank announced this on February 7, 2025.

The key advantage of BI. ZONE PAM is the solution architecture, which allows you to scale the installation to the entire digital infrastructure. In addition, thanks to the functionality of the product for thousands of Sberbank IT specialists, the convenience of working with critical systems is improved. For example, now DevOps-, SRE engineers and administrators need less action to connect to a large number of infrastructure objects at once, and authentication processes have been improved.

The experts of the companies together developed a roadmap for development and implementation taking into account the needs of Sberbank, which made the transition to this solution phased and seamless. The migration of functions to the solution is carried out in accordance with the plan.

Шаблон:Quote 'author=said Karen Karapetyan, Director of the Department of Infrastructure Solutions of Sberbank.

{{quote 'author=noted Muslim Mejlumov, Director of Products and Technologies, BI.ZONE. | We appreciate that Sberbank has chosen the BI.ZONE solution for a task of this magnitude. According to a number of experts, this is the largest PAM installation in Europe. Our product proves that Russian technologies are capable of providing a high level of protection for large businesses, not inferior to the leaders of the global software market,}}

The BI. ZONE PAM platform help secure the infrastructure by securely storing privileged accounts, regularly rotating passwords, controlling users' elevated rights, monitoring their activity, and transferring data to SIEM. The solution has a mechanism for checking the grounds for gaining access to the IT infrastructure, which increases the reliability of changes made by employees. The product is certified by FSTEC of Russia, runs on Linux technology stack, and is also compatible with the main Russian Linux distributions.