Privileged access management (PAM) solutions and techniques have been around for 20 years, from password vaults to proxy servers to dedicated administrative accounts. But most popular PAM products are overly complicated, based on antiquated architectures and saddled with years of code bloat. They also require a lot of time and effort to implement. Yet vendors still charge a king’s ransom for them.
But the most important problem with traditional PAM solutions is that they perpetuate the problem they are meant to solve, by maintaining dozens or hundreds of standing privileged access accounts that are a top target of cyber attackers. Indeed, in nearly every major breach in recent years — from the Snowden incident to the SolarWinds attack — attackers compromised privileged credentials.
Clearly, the expensive and complicated PAM solutions of the past are not sufficiently protecting privileged access. There has to be a better way. The good news is, there is!
The Better Way – Netwrix Privilege Secure
As a third-generation PAM solution, Netwrix Privilege Secure takes a wholly different approach. Instead of forcing you to try to protect a host of standing privileged accounts, it empowers you to eliminate nearly them. Instead, admins are granted just-in-time privileged access based on the specific task they need to perform. When they’re done, the privileges vanish, leaving no standing privileged account to be misused or compromised.
Here’s how this innovative solution is helping thousands of organizations around the world:
SECURE
Reduce the risk of data breaches resulting from privileged credential abuse.
- Minimize privileged accounts. Identify privileged accounts and reduce their number to the absolute minimum to dramatically reduce your attack surface area.
- Grant elevated privileges only as needed, for as long as needed. Provide admins with just enough privileged access to complete a particular task and then eliminate that access.
- Enhance admin accountability. Netwrix Privilege Secure provides approval workflows and logging and recording of each session.
COMPLY
Avoid audit findings and prove that privileged activity is not creating security threats.
- Pass audits with less effort. Avoid audit findings by identifying and removing unneeded privileges.
- Answer auditor’s questions with less effort. Netwrix Privilege Secure provides an easy-to-pull audit trail of all admin activity.
- Support investigations with video recording. Have reliable proof handy in case of investigation with the ability to record and play back privileged sessions.
ENABLE
Enhance security while also improving IT productivity and service uptime.
- Save time on privileged access management. Netwrix Privilege Secure enables you to manage all privileged activity in one place.
- Minimize service outages during password rotations. Quickly pause the update process and roll back the changes if there’s a problem.
- Bring your own vault. Use the tools you already have by integrating Netwrix Privilege Secure with your current password vault.
- Reduce adoption overhead. Keep using the tools you know, such as Remote Desktop Connection Manager, but make them more secure by integrating them with Netwrix Privilege Secure.
