CyberArk Ansible Security Automation Collection

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Collection

cyberark.pas

This collection is the CyberArk Ansible Security Automation project and can be found on ansible galaxy. This is aimed to enable the automation of securing privileged access by storing privileged accounts in the Enterprise Password Vault (EPV), controlling user's access to privileged accounts in EPV, and securely retreiving secrets using Application Access Manager (AAM). The collection includes support for Event-Driven Ansible by providing an event-source plugin for syslog and also guidance on how to use it.

The following modules will allow CyberArk administrators to automate the following tasks:

Requirements

• Ansible Core 2.13.x or above
• CyberArk Privileged Account Security Web Services SDK
• CyberArk AAM Central Credential Provider (Only required for cyberark_credential)

Role Variables

None.

Modules

cyberark_authentication

• Using the CyberArk Web Services SDK, authenticate and obtain an auth token to be passed as a variable in playbooks
• Logoff of an authenticated REST API session
  Playbooks and Module Info

cyberark_user

• Add a CyberArk User
• Delete a CyberArk User
• Update a CyberArk User's account parameters
  • Enable/Disable, change password, mark for change at next login, etc
    Playbooks and Module Info
    

cyberark_account

• Add Privileged Account to the EPV
• Delete account objects
• Modify account properties
• Rotatate privileged credentials
• Retrieve account password
  Playbooks and Module Info

cyberark_credential

• Using AAM Central Credential Provider (CCP), to securely retreive secrets and account properties from EPV to be registered for use in playbooks
  Playbooks and Module Info

Roles

aimprovider

• Install agent-based Credential Provider (AIM) on Linux hosts Playbooks and Module Info

Python3

• The modules will work with either python2 or python3.

Author Information

• CyberArk Business Development Technical Team
  • @enunez-cyberark
  • @cyberark-bizdev