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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com March 2019 - Edition 33 According to the Insider Threat Report: 2018 over half of organizations have confirmed an insid- er attack within the last 12 months. The majority of these are attributed to too many users with excessive access privileges. SolarWinds Access Rights Manager Competes in 2019 The objective of access control is to reduce the risk of unautho- rized access to files, data, and systems. Access control tasks can be burden- some, resulting in insecure accounts, errors, and a lack of audit documenta- tion - but they don’t have to be. Access control is therefore an im- portant component of an orga- nization’s security policy and ef- fective management is required to achieve compliance. SolarWinds® Access Rights Manag- er (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easi- ly provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to sys- tems, data, and files so they can 59