CyberArk P-Cloud (CyberArk Privilege Cloud) Deployment

This post summarizs the steps to deploy your P-Cloud.

Interface

Once you subscribed P-Cloud, you will get an activation email to activate your account. 

Your account will looks like cludadminjnetsec@cyberark.cloud.1234

Your email will be used as MFA to authenticate your access to your p-cloud environment.

P-cloud url : https://<company name>.cyberark.cloud

After logged in, it will look like this:

Connector Server 

1 CyberArk Identity Connector Service

Creates a secure Websocket Tunnel between the Identity tenant and the on premise LDAPS system

LDAPS , Radius

2 CyberArk Password Manager

All password management and rotation capabilities

3 CyberArk Privileged Session Manager

4 CyberArk Privilege Cloud Secure tunnel Service

SIEM and HTML5 Gateway integration

The Vault and Its Clients

Pre-implementation

 1 Server Sizing

• Separate CPM and PSM if needed
• PSM and CPM will have different size requirements 
• PSM (1-10, 11-50, 51-100) sessions
• CPM (<1000, 1000-20000,20000-100000, 100000+ ) managed passwords

2 Minimum Server requirements

• 8 Cores, 8GB RAM
• Windows Server 2016 or 2019
• Domain Joined (for full PSM features)
• All connector servers need to be deployed into an OU that has GPO inheritance disabled

3 Design Consideration for Architecture

• Components : PSM, CPM, Identity Connector (2 for resilience ), Secure Tunnel (2)
• PSM best practice for HA
• CPM Active /DR best practice
• AAM  - separate VM
• PSM for Unix - Separate

4  LDAP Requiremetns

• Domain Joined
• LDAPS
• Read permissions on the deleted objects container
• Domain admin
• Delegate read permissions to a service account
• https://docs.cyberark.com/Product-Doc/OnlineHelp/Idaptive/Latest/en/Content/CoreServices/Connector/Add-AD.htm?tocpath=Setup%7CAdd%20Users%7CAdd%20users%20from%20an%20external%20directory%20service%7C_____1#Userandpermissionrequirements

5  RDS 

• RDS license server
• RDS Cal on your connector server
• Windows 2019 Per-User CAL if Connector Server OS is 2019
• Per-device CAL
• RDS should not be installed prior to the implementation

6  Firewall

7  Verify Prerequisites

- Troubleshooting flag

• script to validate required network traffic and local settings: https://cyberark-customers.force.com/s/article/Privilege-Cloud-How-to-run-the-PSMCheck
• Privilege Cloud Checklist: https://cyberark-customers.force.com/s/article/Privilege-Cloud-Remote-Access-PreImplementation-Checklist
• Remtoe Access for Privilege Cloud: https://cyberark-customers.force.com/s/article/Privilege-Cloud-PreImplementation-Checklist

Identity Installation

 CyberArk Identity Connector

• installeruser 
• reset passowrd. and password will expire 24 hours
• No MFA

References