Privileged accounts have access to the most valuable corporate information, which is why they are often targeted by attackers. As a result, organizations face the need to manage privileged access in a secure and effective manner.
Many compliance regulations have strong security control recommendations for privileged user management. To meet these requirements and prevent devastating data breaches from happening, organizations implement various Privileged Access Management (PAM) practices in their security routine. But how to choose the right PAM solution and what features to look for?
See: Managing Insider Threats with Internal Monitoring
According to Gartner’s 2019 Best Practices for Privileged Account Management, a quality PAM solution should be based on four pillars:
Provide full visibility of all privileged accountsGovern and control privileged access
Monitor and audit privileged activity
Automate and integrate PAM tools
In this overview, we list the most critical features that can help you secure privileged access to your company’s sensitive data according to these four pillars.
1. Continuous discovery of privileged accounts
You can’t protect something you are unaware of. So discovering every single privileged account in your network is a must. Look for privileged access management solutions that allow discovering all kinds of privileged accounts used by both human users and applications.
Once you have full visibility of all the privileged accounts present in your network, you can easily get rid of needless admin accounts and specify which accounts or particular users can access what critical assets. To go even further, you may harden the system by eliminating all default admin accoun ..
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