5 REASONS TO PRIORITIZE PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT

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Remote and hybrid work models, increased adoption of cloud services and heavy investments in DevOps allow for cost savings and improves an organization’s operational efficiencies but creates significant cybersecurity debt.

The proliferation of identities can become an attack vector, especially if a compromised identity enables attackers to move laterally and steal critical assets.

Privileged access management (PAM) presents a barrier for cyberattacks. Prioritize PAM in your organization. Here’s why.

1.      Reduce Credential Theft

Reduce the risk of credential theft by automatically discovering and onboarding privileged accounts and credentials with central management in the vault. Rotating credentials are key to PAM and make it extremely challenging to steal passwords through brute-force or social engineering attacks. Reduce the risk of credential theft by automatically discovering and onboarding privileged accounts and credentials with central management in the vault. Rotating credentials are key to PAM and make it extremely challenging to steal passwords through brute-force or social engineering attacks.

Eliminate unnecessary privileges and strategically remove excessive permissions for workloads that do not need standing access by implementing just-in-time (JIT) permission elevation, allowing users to access privileged accounts only when needed.

2.      Prevent Ransomware, Malware

Prevent the spread of malware and ransomware with privilege controls by removing local administrator rights from end-user workstations and use multi-factor authentication to validate access attempts.

3.     Threat Detection and Response

Improve threat detection by correlating user behavior analytics across an administrator's access to both web apps and privileged accounts with Identity Security Intelligence. Configure alerts and manual or automatic remediation and leverage integration with security information and event management (SIEM) systems and other security operation center (SOC) tools.

4.    Secrets Management

Improve DevSecOps with secrets management to avoid application secrets from being compromised.

5.   Audit and Compliance

Satisfy audit and compliance requirements by adopting PAM and related controls to strengthen the security posture.

Establish secure, isolated remote sessions and record all activity during that privileged session to maintain compliance.



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