Protect your most critical data – Privileged Access Management
The Protect your most critical data - Privileged Access Management
What is privileged access management?
Privileged access management (PAM) is used to control the use of systems and data to protect resources from threats. Combining people, processes, and technology, privileged access management provides visibility into what privileged users (e.g., IT and security administrators, human resources (HR) professionals, and executives) do while accessing restricted resources.
What are privileges and how are they created?
In terms of enterprise IT, privilege describes the rights granted to an identity, account, or process within a computing system or network that are above the normal access granted. Privileged access management is used to provide authorized users with elevated access and the ability to perform a number of restricted functions, such as:
- Access sensitive data or resources
- Configure networks or systems
- Load device drivers
- Open or close ports
- Override, or bypass, certain security restraints
- Provision and configure accounts and cloud instances
- Shut down or restart systems
What are privileged accounts and what types are there?
A privileged account, also referred to as an administrative account, is a login credential (i.e., username and password) that grants access to a server, firewall, cloud service or storage, or another admin account. Privileged access management is used to administer these accounts to ensure that the users requiring access have the requisite privileges. The types are:
- Application administrator accounts
- Domain administrator accounts
- Domain service accounts
- Emergency accounts
- Local administrator accounts
- Service accounts
- Superuser accounts
Why privileged access management is important?
Тhere are three main reasons:
Minimize attack surfaces
Privileged access management can protect against internal and external threats by limiting privileges for people, systems, and applications, thereby reducing exploitation opportunities.
Improves visibility
With privileged access management, security teams have a real-time view of users’ access to every application, device, network, and server, including session times. This makes it possible to identify attempts to access unauthorized areas quickly. Privileged access management can also be used to set up alerts when users are not following their typical behavior and flag possible compromised credentials.
Integrated access
Privileged access management provides a single dashboard for managing access to enterprise systems, including applications, databases, devices, servers, and workstations. This dashboard can also be used to generate a report that aggregates access data from multiple sources
So how can a PAM Solution help you?
Typically, a PAM solution has two modules:
1. Privileged Passwords Module
This module stores the passwords of the users and can be used as a vault. Sample functions include automatic asset discovery, central administration of user and rights as well as detailed login and reporting about every user, account and asset
2. Privileged Sessions Modul
This module monitors sessions, records them and is able to replay them at a later moment. It has also a list of allowed commands and detailed report of all sessions
Conclusion
A PAM component is a critical system in modern Identity Management. It offers significant protection for your critical assets. Need advice on how to use and utilize such a system?
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