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This is a guide to the risks associated with admin rights and over-privileged users, and how to remove admin rights in order to reduce those risks. There are many options for removing administrator rights, however you must always consider business operation—removing admin rights should never jeopardize productivity. Why do organizations use admin rights in the…
It’s very easy for service accounts to fall off your radar. Virtually all organizations have some unknown service accounts and some have thousands. Why do service accounts get lost? An employee leaves and the account is simply abandoned. The account is used less and less until it becomes obsolete and forgotten. Default accounts are left…
In recent years the need for improved Identity and Access Management (IAM) has been growing. Businesses are enabling policies and technologies to authorize approved employees and 3rd party contractors’ access to the systems and applications required to perform their jobs. As companies move to the cloud, the already-challenging task of providing common and secure access…
You’ve set up policies. You’ve trained your team. You’ve vetted third parties. But, even the most proactive privilege security strategy can’t account for every situation and every type of risky behavior. Today many Thycotic customers rely on session recording and monitoring capabilities for added peace of mind. If any privileged user adds a backdoor account or makes an unauthorized configuration change,…
Compliance audits are a stressful, time-consuming effort for many companies. In the Lockdown blog, we often talk about the tools and processes customers use to prepare for both internal and external information security audits. This time we thought we’d turn the tables and speak directly to an auditor to hear his perspective. In this post, auditor…
Users are the biggest risk to information security. That’s why it’s so important to have a usable software product, especially in the cyber security space. Our goal is to give people the agility and control they need to reduce risk. Usability is our North Star. With this goal foremost in our minds, we’re building a growing team…
PowerShell and other scripting tools are part of an IT professional’s arsenal. They are incredibly powerful, a force multiplier which allows you to automate important or frequently used tasks. The same traits that make these tools a boon for IT pros also make them valuable to malicious actors who can use them to exponentially increase their…
Root accounts are the keys to powerful IT systems, the backbone of your entire infrastructure. They use privileged credentials to control shell access, file transfers, or batch jobs that communicate with other computers or apps, often accessed remotely, with local configuration. They can be the trickiest of all types of privileged accounts to secure, particularly…
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face a cyber security trifecta. Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting the most vulnerable businesses (not just the biggest fish). Sophisticated attackers quickly take advantage of newly revealed vulnerabilities. And, cyber security professionals are in short supply. Maybe SMBs aren’t aware that they can use the same types of security systems…
In today’s always-connected world it’s important to realize that, historically and traditionally, cybersecurity was the responsibility of the IT department. Any time a cyber incident or data breach occurred or security questions arose, these got deferred to IT for the answers. Failure to translate cyber risk into business risk has left many businesses clueless But…
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With 85% of breaches involving compromised endpoints, organizations are implementing a least privilege security posture and application control to minimize risks caused by cyberattacks and fraudulent users. Before getting started, you’ll need to design policies for different departments and users, keeping in mind how implementing least privilege will affect their productivity. Your IT Admins, for example, should have standard accounts without privileged network access for day-to-day tasks and be granted privileged access only occasionally as needed. Your business users will need access to applications with restricted privileges that do not interfere with getting their work done.
