Reduce Risk Through a Just-in-Time Approach to Privileged Access Management

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Reduce Risk Through a Just-in-Time Approach to Privileged Access Management
Although sensational headlines about devastating ransomware attacks might suggest that organizations should focus on external threats, the fact is, the biggest security threat comes from trusted insiders with privileged access Indeed,  42% of data breaches start with credential abuse.

The key to reducing your risk is effective privileged access management (PAM). PAM has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. Traditional approaches are complex and costly to implement, and their vault-centric approach does nothing to remove or limit your attack surface area.

The best way to reduce security risks without impacting business efficiency is a modern PAM strategy called zero standing privilege (ZSP). With ZSP, administrators are granted just enough privilege to complete a specific task, for only as long as needed to complete that task. This just-in-time (JIT) approach dramatically reduces the risk of powerful accounts being exploited by internal or outside threats.

To help organizations effectively implement this strategy, Gartner offers the research “Reduce Risk Through a Just-in-Time Approach to Privileged Access Management.” It provides a model for mapping out an organization’s privilege use and explains how ZSP helps reduce the attack surface area.

If you are in the process of evaluating PAM products, be sure to look closely at the Netwrix privileged access management solution. It replaces standing privilege with just-in-time accounts that have just enough privilege to complete the task at hand and that are removed immediately afterward. As a result, there are no user accounts with privilege for hackers to compromise or account owners to accidentally or deliberately misuse.

Disclaimer

Gartner, “Reduce Risk Through a Just-in-Time Approach to Privileged Access Management,” 7 March 2022, James Hoover, Felix Gaehtgens, Abhyuday Data, Michael Kelley.

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