PAM-DEF Exam Preparation Material | CyberArk Defender – PAM

Explanation:
Dual control is a feature of CyberArk Defender PAM that enables authorized Safe owners to either grant or deny requests to access accounts. This feature adds an additional measure of protection, in that it enables you to see who wants to access the information in the Safe, when, and for what purpose. The Master Policy enables organizations to ensure that passwords can only be retrieved after permission or ‘confirmation’ has been granted from an authorized Safe Owner (s). This is known as Dual Control. The primary purpose of dual control is to prevent a single user from accessing a sensitive account without authorization, which could lead to fraud or misuse of privileges. By requiring confirmation from another authorized user, dual control ensures that there is a ‘collusion to commit’ fraud, meaning that at least two users are involved in the malicious activity and are accountable for it.
Reference: Dual Control - CyberArk
Dual Control - CyberArk
Dual control in V10 Interface - docs.cyberark.com

Explanation:
To view recordings or live monitor sessions, users must be part of the Auditors group or have the appropriate permissions in the relevant Account Safes and Recording Safes12. The other groups do not have the necessary permissions to access the recordings or monitor the sessions by default.
Reference: Monitor Active Sessions, Active Session Monitoring

Explanation:
The Master user is a predefined user that has complete control over the entire system and can manage a full recovery when necessary. To log in as the Master user, you need the following items: Master CD: This is a physical CD that contains the Private Recovery Key, which is a file named RecPrv.key. This key is used to decrypt the Vault data and authenticate the Master user. The Master CD must be inserted into the Vault server’s CD drive.
Master Password: This is a password that is set by the Master user during the initial installation of the Vault. It is used to log in to the Vault with the Master user name. The Master password can be reset by the Master user if needed.
Console access to the Vault server: This is a direct access to the Vault server machine, either physically or remotely. The Master user can only log in from the Vault server machine, not from any
other client machine.
Private Ark Client: This is a graphical user interface that allows the Master user to connect to the Vault and perform various tasks, such as recovering orphaned safes, activating predefined users, and managing network areas. The Private Ark Client must be installed on the Vault server machine and configured to use PrivateArk authentication method.
Reference: How to log in as the Master user, Predefined users and groups, Log in as Master from CyberArk PrivateArk Client

Explanation:
According to the web search results, all of the Privileged Session Management (PSM) solutions support live monitoring of active sessions. PSM, PSM for Windows, and PSM for SSH enable authorized users to monitor active sessions from their workstation and take part in controlling these sessions. Users can also suspend or terminate active sessions based on their group assignment. By default, active session monitoring is enabled at system level for all authorized users, and can be disabled at platform level. Active session monitoring can also be disabled at system level, but when it is disabled, it cannot be enabled at platform level. PSM can automatically suspend or terminate sessions when notified by PTA or a third party threat analytics tool1. Authorized users monitor or terminate an active session using the same connection method (RDP file or HTML5 Gateway) as the end user

Explanation:
The report that shows the accounts that are accessible to each user is the Entitlement report. According to the web page in the edge browser, the Entitlement report provides information about users’ entitlement rights in PAM - Self-Hosted regarding user, Safe, active platform, target machine, target account, etc. This report includes each user’s effective access control and authorization level on each account that the user has access to in PAM - Self-Hosted. The Entitlement report can be generated in PVWA or PrivateArk1.