Is your PAM solution failing to meet your needs?
Many organizations eagerly adopt a privileged access management (PAM) solution, only to find that it soon falls far short of expectations. For starters, PAM solutions can be incredibly complex to deploy, with multiple modules to install and configure, roles to define, and vaults to manage. Then, as soon as you manage to get the solution deployed, additional use cases start to pop up, and you have to figure out how to use the PAM tools to manage privileged access to things like network switches, database backups and security cameras.
Indeed, over time, the PAM solution can grow out of control — just managing the tool and its vault starts to take as much time as keeping your critical systems and infrastructure running!
Feeling stuck and helpless?
Despite the cost and frustration, many organizations cannot see a path that takes them away from their current PAM solution. After all, the solution is what enables administrators to access core systems and data. Without that access, essential business operations could be disrupted or even brought to a standstill. You might look longingly at a different PAM tool, but the time, expense and risk of switching seem prohibitive.
This is exactly where you PAM vendor wants you! When the cost of switching is high, vendors can simply expect your annual maintenance dollars, while providing little in the way of new features and capabilities.
But what if you could switch to a better PAM solution — without an expensive rip-and-replace exercise?
Netwrix offers a better PAM approach — and makes switching easy!
Enhance security while reducing complexity
Cost and complexity are two of the downsides of traditional PAM solutions. Another critical issue is that these tools don’t reduce your attack surface area; in fact, they may actually add to it. Every privileged account that exists in your IT ecosystem is a vulnerability, a potential vehicle for attackers to gain privileged access to your critical data and systems. Storing those powerful accounts in a vault does improve security, but the accounts still exist 24/7/365 and those standing privileges can be misused by internal users or taken over by attackers.
Netwrix Privilege Secure takes a modern approach that dramatically reduces your attack surface area: zero standing privileges. Instead of having to try to constantly guard dozens or hundreds of powerful accounts, you can eliminate most of them altogether. Instead, Netwrix Privilege Secure creates temporary accounts with exactly as much privilege as required for the task at hand and deletes them when the session is over. A simple approval workflow enables admins to request the access they need, and tracks the entire process, including all approvals and denials.
It’s kind of like Uber or Lyft: With Netwrix Privilege Secure, admins can request privileged access “rides” whenever they need them, without the organization having to maintain and secure a fleet of account “vehicles.”
Leverage your existing investments with Bring-Your-Own-Vault® (BYOV®) technology
Even better, it’s easy to gain all the advantages of Netwrix Privilege Secure because you can simply layer it on top of your current vault: You use your current PAM vault to manage the privileged accounts that need to be retained, such as built-in administrator and root accounts, while using Netwrix Privilege Secure to securely provision your admins with just-in-time accounts that provide just enough permissions to complete specific task. As a result, your attack surface area drops to nearly zero.
Gain flexibility with Netwrix Privilege Seure
Unlike other PAM vendors, Netwrix Privilege Secure gives you options:
- Want to use an existing vault that you spent lots of precious time and effort perfecting? Netwrix Privilege Secure can do that!
- Want to use our vault? Netwrix Privilege Secure provides a great one.
- Want to operate without a vault at all? Netwrix Privilege Secure makes it easy!
In short, Netwrix Privilege Secure enables you to manage privileged access your way, not ours.
