PREDI C TI VE I NTEL L I GE NC E
It’s essential to have a way to track who has
privileged access and control what they are
doing with that access.
Manually finding and tracking all the
privileged accounts in large enterprise
environments is virtually impossible.
And if you can’t find your privileged
accounts, you can’t secure them. But
just because you may not know where
all your privileged accounts reside,
doesn’t mean the bad guys can’t locate
them – and exploit them. So, finding your
privileged accounts is step one.
Securing them is step two. That involves
generating unique and cryptographically
complex credentials for each account –
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and continuously updating them. Manual
password change processes can’t
keep up with the scale required in
large organisations. credentials, that stolen credential is
time-limited and unique. So, it can’t be
leveraged to leapfrog between systems
and anonymously extract data.
But with automated PAM technology
you can change these credentials as
frequently as your policies require –
even every couple of hours. Once an automated PAM solution
finds your privileged accounts and
then secures them, the next step
is controlling access. Modern PAM
technology can ensure that only
authorised individuals have access to
your powerful privileged accounts and
only in a fully audited manner. There’s
no more mystery around who had
access to what and when. u
That effectively negates advanced
cyberattacks like zero days and
keeps intruders from nesting in your
environment. The reason being, even
when an intruder steals one of your
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