{"id":4715,"date":"2020-01-17T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2020-01-17T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:38:18","slug":"how-can-you-ensure-privileged-account-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/how-can-you-ensure-privileged-account-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Ensure Privileged Account Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4581\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod.jpg\" alt=\"How Can You Ensure Privileged Account Security?\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/09\/Hacker-New-Image-Mod-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How can your business ensure consistent and widespread privileged account security in your IT infrastructure? Why does it matter to your overall cybersecurity policies and platforms?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Privilege account security might prove the most essential component of business cybersecurity, regardless of the business\u2019 size. After all, each privileged account possesses unique power within your enterprise\u2019s network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"iam-inject\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-privilieged-access-management-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2020\/01\/PAM_BG_SB_800.gif\" alt=\"Download Link to Privileged Access Management Buyer's Guide\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, they can access the back ends of critical systems and authorizes the development or configuration of new systems. Moreover, some privileged accounts can create or destroy other users\u2019 accounts or even elevate credentials to privileged status.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Therefore, hackers prioritize subverting or stealing privileged users\u2019 credentials above any other targets. If any threat actor gets their hands on one of your privileged credentials, they could not only steal your sensitive data\u2014they could disrupt your workflows severely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet while enterprise IT infrastructures grow in complexity, plenty of businesses still try to manage their privileged account security. In fact, some of them still use spreadsheets to try to keep track of their superusers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thankfully, <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-privilieged-access-management-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privileged access management (PAM)<\/a> can help your organization maintain your privileged access security. Here\u2019s how:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>How Can You Ensure Privileged Account Security (Through PAM)?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Discover Your Privileged Accounts\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s examine a few critical questions for your business\u2019 IT security, regardless of its size:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who in your enterprise possesses a privileged account?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What kinds of access do these privileged accounts actually have?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where do you store your privileged accounts?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can you see how your privileged users act and interact on your network?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, these are far from idle questions. With the advent of both cloud and mobile devices, visibility over superusers becomes both more critical and more difficult; each new location creates a potential hiding spot for new credentials. Additionally, you need to consider whether third-parties may hold privileged access in your network. Don\u2019t forget: applications and databases can also possess privileged accounts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Enforce the Principle of Least Privilege<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-privilieged-access-management-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PAM solutions<\/a> help your business enforce common rules and policies regarding the creation, maintenance, and destruction of new accounts. For all of these processes, privileged access management can enforce the Principle of Least Privilege.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Principle of Least Privilege states that users can only have the permissions necessary for their immediate job positions. If they need permissions beyond their job roles, then they should only receive temporary permissions which the solution revokes automatically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This prevents privileged accounts from becoming bloated and thus prime targets for theft or internal abuse.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Maintaining Strong, Consistent Authentication Policies<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, PAM solutions help to rotate passwords on a regular basis automatically; this helps your organization stay in compliance. Additionally, this helps to change service account passwords and default passwords, avoiding potential pitfalls. The more diverse the passwords you use, the less likely hackers can find a weak one to exploit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, almost all PAM solutions deploy multifactor authentication. Privileged account security depends on a diversity of authentication steps to secure each user; the more obstacles between the access request and the granting of access, the less likely hackers can get through. In fact, multifactor authentication can deter hackers from bothering to target your business in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, PAM solutions centralize privileged accounts in a vault and monitor and record their activities through session monitoring. These solutions help maintain visibility over your most sensitive users even as the infrastructure expands and becomes complex.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, you need PAM to help your privileged account security efforts. To learn more, be sure to check our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/get-a-free-privilieged-access-management-solutions-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privileged Access Management Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can your business ensure consistent and widespread privileged account security in your IT infrastructure? Why does it matter to your overall cybersecurity policies and platforms?\u00a0 Privilege account security might prove the most essential component of business cybersecurity, regardless of the business\u2019 size. After all, each privileged account possesses unique power within your enterprise\u2019s network.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[142,125,16,112,76,70,145,124,123,1094,90,1323,25],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Can You Ensure Privileged Account Security?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How can your business ensure consistent and widespread privileged account security in your IT infrastructure? 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