Requirement Gathering, Current State Analysis And Future State Recommendations?
Virtual Workshops on PAM will introduce the participants on the importance of Privileged Identity Management and how it forms a crucial part of the access control mechanism in an enterprise. We shall first look at what are Privileged IDs and why are they such a major issue. How do APTs leverage these IDs to penetrate deep into the network and exfiltrate corporate information assets out of the network. We then look at how Privileged identities can be automated to follow pre-determined or customized policies and requirements for an organization. The participant will get to know how does a PIM solution offers a central point of control for protecting target systems accessed by privileged users and accounts.
Current State Analysis And Future State Recommendations
Current Situation Analysis, The Gap Analysis, is very important in terms of preventing unauthorized access. You must be sure that the right user can access the right resource, at the right time, in the right place, for the right reason, and that you have the ability to monitor, record and control this privileged account management 24/7. In order to carry out all these correctly, you must first analyze the current situation correctly and develop your first plan properly.
Discover and settle
Continuous discovery of the privileged accounts
IdentitySkills synchronizes privileged account information of users to AD/LDAP directories, thanks to its Active Directory Integration. Thus, the whole directory is kept up-to-date.
Preventing credential disclosure
IdentitySkills can provide controlled access to an IT network without any credential disclosure. Credentials can be securely transferred to RDP/SSH/Network Device connections of the target devices via IdentitySkills.
Removing old passwords
IdentitySkills automatically changes all privileged account credentials and passwords for these accounts at regular intervals. IdentitySkills may regularly request a change of the passwords in the following account types:
Windows Server Accounts
Active Directory Accounts
Linux Accounts
Network Device Accounts
Ensuring reliability and accountability
You must ensure that the users use privileged accounts only for legitimate business purposes. IdentitySkills provides the best implementation of the principle of least privilege, with the following two features.
MFA Authentication for privileged access
Multi-level administrative approval for privileged access
Vendor Comparison
With your shortlist in hand, examine and compare the capabilities of each PAM vendor’s software. Keep in mind vendors that offer both PAM on-premise and PAM in the cloud solutions give you the option for how best to deploy your own solution. Just be sure the vendor’s cloud offering is as robust and full-featured as its on-premise product. IdentitySkills PAM software basics are providing you with the ability to:
Discover privileged accounts on systems, devices, and applications for subsequent management.
Automatically randomize, manage and vault passwords and other credentials for administrative, service, and application accounts.
Control access to privileged accounts, including shared and “break glass” (emergency access) accounts.
Isolate, monitor, record, and audit privileged access sessions, commands, and actions.
PAM Deployment
PAM can be deployed as part of your infrastructure in the form of a dedicated suite of tools, letting you customise your access protocols as needed. Depending on your unique needs, your implementation process can involve the installation and setup of any of the following:
Admin Multifactor Identification (MFA)
End-to-End auditing and access logs
Custom automated provisioning tools to grant ad-hoc access
Dedicated Password vault to allow for secure storage
Other bespoke functionality such as session tracking, ticket issuance, application access control and time logging to allow for data capture and increased control on user entitlements
