Hackers who have access to login details for your business can cause major problems. Whether they have acquired usernames and passwords through phishing attacks, other data breaches or from insider threats, compromised accounts can be one of the biggest vulnerabilities for any business.
But not all accounts are equal. There will always be a few, such as admin accounts, that provide especially high levels of access, so protecting these from threats must be a top priority for any cyber security strategy. To do this, an effective PAM plan is essential.
Privileged access management, or PAM, covers all the processes and protections you put in place for accounts that can access your most sensitive and mission-critical systems. This includes access to domain admins, services, applications and root accounts that are likely to be highly valuable targets for hackers.
With access to these systems, criminals or malicious insiders could do huge amounts of damage. Therefore, it's vital that privileged accounts are held to the highest possible standards in order to protect systems and data from threats - both those from outside the business and from malicious insiders.