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5 STEPS TO BEING PRIVILEGE READY IN
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Data breaches are never a matter of ‘if’
Humans make mistakes. These mistakes are often
reversible, forgivable and forgettable. But what about
when an innocent blunder enables an attacker to
gain a foothold on your network, exploit powerful
privileged accounts and take control of your
organisation’s data?
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People are an organisation’s most valuable resource.
But they can also be its greatest vulnerability,
especially when armed with weak credentials, all-too-
powerful privileged accounts and security ignorance
or hubris.
Most organisations focus ample security resources
on controlling and protecting the boundaries of their
networks, but many pay inadequate attention to
what’s happening on the inside. Once an outside
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threat makes it to the inside, these organisations are
ill-equipped to identify, impede, or stop it.
To combat today’s threats, organisations must be
able to monitor for suspicious behaviour, take the
destructive potential out of users’ hands and become
‘Privilege Ready’.
This whitepaper reveals strategies to help your
organisation get Privilege Ready by implementing
the proper privileged access management (PAM)
program. Being Privilege Ready will also help make
regulatory and security processes more repeatable
and automated.
Too much access for too many
The problem is simple: too many users have too much
access. In 2017, a BeyondTrust survey revealed that
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