
Thycotic customers come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of experience. Some are new to PAM. Perhaps they recently inherited the program. Or maybe they’re building a PAM strategy from scratch. Our pro services team supports them at every stage of their journey. Some want more hands-on control. They prefer writing their own scripts, building…
You snag a seat at your local café and open your laptop. Maybe you’re on the patio, grateful for the heater. The scent of coffee powers up your brain. The low hum of people chatting is welcome, after months of isolation. The logon page appears as you search for the Wi-Fi in your settings. Despite…
Lately we’ve been banging the drum that “every user is a privileged user,” meaning privileged users aren’t limited to system administrators but also include business users with access to applications and endpoints linked to critical business data and functions. The second verse to that refrain is that “every system is a privileged system.” Within your IT environment,…
Service accounts, by their nature, can take on a life of their own. They’re rarely tied to a human owner if managed at all, so service account sprawl takes over and organizations’ privileged account attack surfaces can expand almost beyond measure. And with almost all medium to large organizations unable to pull service accounts into…
The traditional “vault-and-forward” method for secrets management means a user or application authenticates to the vault and then gets access to the secrets they need. The fundamental problem is once those secrets are out of the vault, it is extremely difficult to ensure their safety. In the case of an application, the ways Secrets can…
IT service management providers have made strides replacing collections of legacy tools with a single unified IT service management platform. However, there are still many aspects of IT administration that must be done manually outside of such unified platforms. Service account management is one task that is commonly cumbersome to IT administrators and those in…
This moment in 2020 is a flashpoint in time. We hear calls for a number of changes to address the current political and cultural climate. As a security software company, our engineers have seen a lot of discussion around the use of terminology in technology that may be perceived as racist. Is it appropriate to…
I’ve been working in the identity and access management (IAM) field for more than 20 years. Unix and Linux user management has been a challenge throughout all those years. If you have a single Unix or Linux server and a manageable number of users, there’s no issue. But no one only has one server and…
Security models have struggled to match the evolution of Unix. Over its long history, Unix has evolved and changed in many different ways. What started in Bell Labs 40 years ago has spawned more than 150 variants of Unix in use today. Unlike the linear progression of Windows operating systems, in which most organizations use…
One of the most significant challenges today within endpoint security via application control is the sometimes tedious task of application categorization to create allowlists, denylists, and restrictlist. What is application control? Application control allows you to proactively manage and monitor all the applications running on your endpoints with policy-driven controls. Application control can be executed…