• Privileged Access Management is an important and vital security solution that helps protect one of the most important assets in an organization.

Software vendors can simply enable and empower their solutions by integrating into the world’s most popular, friendly, easy-to-use and most valuable Privileged Access Management solution available.

Organizations and governments around the world have been experiencing the serious impact of cyber-attacks that steal data, disrupt operations and bring big corporations to their knees with destructive ransomware. One common technique used in major cyber-attacks is the theft and abuse of credentials, passwords and privileged access allowing cyber criminals to move around networks and systems undetected.

The difference between a simple perimeter breach and a cyber catastrophe is a privileged account.

Many companies focus on getting employees onboarded and productive as quickly as possible. So they invest heavily in Identity Provisioning solutions that help in creating the accounts—on premise or in the cloud—that an employee needs to perform their job. However, hackers have confirmed that companies allow way too much access which results in criminal hackers being able to quickly elevate to privileged access. This gives them FULL ACCESS to the entire infrastructure and enables them to easily hide their activities and tracks.

PRIVILEGED ACCOUNTS exist to enable IT professionals to manage applications, software, and server hardware, and they can be human or non-human.

Privileged accounts provide administrative or specialized levels of access based on higher levels of permissions that are shared. Some privileged accounts are also application accounts used to run services requiring specific permissions. In many cases, user accounts can also have elevated or administrative privileges attached to them. Privileged accounts must be correctly managed to minimize the risk of a security breach.

When a privileged account gets compromised or stolen it gives the cyber criminal the ability to bypass almost all the traditional IT security controls that many organizations rely on to protect their most valuable assets and keep the business running, like firewalls or antivirus. The cyber criminal can then impersonate a trusted employee or system and carry out malicious activity, remaining undetected for a long time.

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