Enterprise Password Management Closes The #1 Hole In Your Attack Surface

In addition to users, systems such as databases, applications and networks all require a robust enterprise password management solution to authenticate and exchange information. These accounts aren’t tied to a unique human identity, which means you can’t rely on Identity and Access Management tools to manage them. When no individual is held accountable for password protection the risks of a breach increase exponentially.

• Service accounts run application services such as Windows Services, scheduled tasks, batch jobs, and Application Pools within IIS. Changing passwords for service accounts is tricky because applications are dependent on credentials for daily operations.
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• Application accounts access and share sensitive information with databases and other applications. They include database logins, certificates for software signing, embedded build script passwords, configuration files, and application services used during software development. Default privileged credentials or SSH keys are often embedded in clear text or hard-coded in applications and can be easily exploited.
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• System administrator accounts manage databases and can be difficult to secure and rotate because credentials are often shared among a group of IT administrators who need instant access. Managing Windows administrator accounts is particularly difficult in a virtualized environment as machines are rapidly deployed.
• Domain administrator accounts manage servers and control Active Directory users. They also include local domain accounts at the workstation level which are included by default and allow everyday users excess privileges.
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• Root accounts manage Unix/Linux platforms and can be challenging to synchronize and map to Active Directory in order to ensure accountability.
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• Networking accounts represent a full-access pass to critical infrastructure such as firewalls, routers and switches. When these accounts are breached you may never recover.
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It’s impossible to manage enterprise passwords manually. Consumer password protection tools don’t have the right capabilities and can’t scale. Old-school enterprise password management tools are complex, expensive to manage and slow down your systems. The more complex the tool the higher the risk of failure.

Privileged Account Management (PAM) is an automated solution for corporate password management that eliminates the drudgery and increases your control. With PAM you can rotate passwords without spending hundreds of hours manually changing them, and simultaneously update credentials used for services and applications without downtime. Modern PAM tools have built-in capabilities for workflow and reporting that give you maximum control and flexibility.