Muhammad Bin Naeem

Title:​ Privileged Access Management Keyword​: None Word Count:​ None Instructions:​ I'd like the style to be similar to the patch management one you just did. Describe what it is, why it's important, and how Infraguard helps Client:​ Tobias Abdon - InfraGuard What is Privileged Access Management Privileged Access Management consists of strategies and solutions devised to secure, control, manage, and monitor privileged access of users, processes, accounts, and systems. The level of access provided by privileged accounts represents a major security threat to any organization. Privileged access management reduces this threat by: ● Taking the credentials of privileged accounts. ● Placing the credentials inside a secure repository. ● Isolating the use of privileged accounts. ● Only allowing access after authentication. ● Keeping a log of all authentications and accesses. Privileged Access Management centralizes all the privileged credentials in one place, ensuring a high standard of security, monitoring, and control over the use of these credentials. Using InfraGuard ensures this level of security, control of who is accessing assets, regulating actions that can be performed after access, and logging all actions. Importance of Privileged Access Management Accounts with privileged access are everywhere including: ● Network Devices ● Databases ● Applications ● On-Prem Servers and Cloud ● DevOps Pipelines In the case of a cyber-attack or security breach, privileged accounts are prime targets. These accounts, in the hands of an attacker, can result in a full-blown catastrophe. The most common privileged risks and threats arise by negligence in the following: ● Lack of awareness among privileged users ● Over Provisioning ● Shared Account Passwords ● Embedded Credentials ● Decentralized Credential Management A single compromised account with privileged access can become a grim reaper for an entire organization. With such huge risks involved, the importance of Privileged Access Management becomes more apparent than ever. Challenges of Managing Privileged Access In today’s world, Zero-trust is need of the hour. Regulating and mitigating threats before they arise is critical. In the case of Privileged Access Management, it is not easy to create solutions, devise strategies, and implement policies to mitigate all possible threats. Privileged Access Management is difficult. It is hard to integrate into an existing system, complicated to enforce, and has a cumbersome auditing process. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The major challenges any organization faces while implementing Privliliege Access Management are: ● Available options are complex to implement and costly to consider. ● Even in large enterprises, sharing SSH keys/passwords is still common practice due to a lack of centralized key/password management system and set patterns. ● Operational & Security teams are misaligned. Roles and policies for users are not being created and used. ● With Cloud’s on-demand nature, it rapidly becomes difficult to keep track of logs of instances (and actions were taken). ● For Managed Services Providers, different clients often have different access requirements making it difficult to centralize. InfraGuard’s Privileged Access Management InfraGuard has rethought the way systems are accessed, by removing the need for SSH/RDP keys completely. It also provides simplicity with security, granular policy-based roles, logs, and audits. Privileged access management is core to what InfraGuard does. With InfraGuard you can: ● View and control the assets to which your team has access. ● Allow you to change or delete access and level of control in two clicks. ● Teams can execute scripts, rotate keys, and perform bulk operations without sharing keys. ● Implement Access management from a simple dashboard without complicating existing systems. ● Create automated and centralized password and key management policies. ● Prevent insider threats by creating and enforcing simple user roles with pre-built policies. Allow only necessary access. ● Access only when required - rest all actions, perform from InfraGuard’s controlled dashboard. ● Create and implement a key rotation policy to safeguard against unauthorized access. ● Advanced access management features like server lockdown to isolate from all remote connections. ● Superfast auditing with data segregation by-servers and by-users ● MFA, SAML, SSO implemented systems. InfraGuard ensures enterprises stay safe and secure while simplifying operations to reduce error rates.