Restricting Simultaneous Active Directory User Logins

Restricting Simultaneous Active Directory User Logins

  • Customer

    An emerging bank in Kuwait and the Gulf Cooperation Council

  • Industry

    Finance

  • Geography

    Kuwait

We needed a solution to restrict user sessions and UserLock ticks that very important box for us. Not only have we now enforced regulation but we have also shared the news about the roll-out with our staff to show that we are an organization that cares about security.

Lead Systems Administrator

  • Challenge: Failed regulatory requirements around the control of simultaneous user sessions for all employees.

  • Solution: With UserLock, IT administrators can set and enforce access rules that restrict from where, when and how long an authenticated Active Directory user may logon.

  • Result: By choosing UserLock, a leading Kuwait bank can now meet compliance policy on concurrent user sessions.

Central Bank of Kuwait’s compliance policy on concurrent user sessions

All banks located in Kuwait come under the umbrella of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) and so are required to meet all policies enforced by the organisation. One of the key IT security policies is to control concurrent user sessions across all employees who have access to the bank's system.

This means that banks need to restrict user sessions so that employees cannot log onto two devices at the same time.

The Challenge Failed regulatory requirements for multiple sessions

Following an audit by the CBK, it was discovered that the bank did not have a solution in place to restrict active directory concurrent sessions meaning AD users were able to have multiple sessions at any time and security could potentially be compromised.

The bank was forced to rapidly implement a solution that would enable it to restrict concurrent users across all employees in order to comply with CBK’s security policies.

The Solution Fast and simple to install, easy to manage

IS Decisions’ UserLock solution was recommended by one of the bank’s local consultants. After signing up for the free trial, the bank’s IT team was quickly able to familiarise themselves with the solution and its ability to satisfy CBK’s compliance mandate on concurrent user sessions.

The complete UserLock set up was done in a single day and the team was able to easily integrate it into the bank’s system. Once UserLock was up and running, it was an easy task to brief and train the wider operations team who are all now running it.

UserLock’s flexibility allows it to support multiple scenarios that the bank requires and when it needed to cover a specific technical scenario that was not supported, IS Decisions was able to quickly create a workaround to meet that requirement.

The Benefits A robust security solution for managing simultaneous sessions

With its implementation of UserLock, the bank now complies with CBK’s regulation regarding restricting concurrent sessions by users.

The IS Decisions’ professional support team helped the bank during and after the implementation ensuring that the roll-out and management of UserLock was successful and met every requirement.

The bank started using UserLock in the middle of 2016.

We needed a solution to restrict user sessions and UserLock ticks that very important box for us. The support team is really helpful and worked closely with us to ensure a successful implementation. Not only have we now enforced regulation but we have also shared the news about the roll-out with our staff to show that we are an organization that cares about security.

Lead Administrator
Systems Administration at the bank

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