subject: Need For Privileged Identity Management Solutions [print this page] Every company that wishes to be successful in todays competitive market scenario must adopt appropriate risk management methods. Risk analysis is the key to balance unforeseen dangers and capitalize on opportunities. Hence, efficient risk management frameworks ensures a thorough risk analysis and improves consistency.
Managing unrestricted admin access is a kind of risk management issue faced by many today. The rise in network operation centers, huge data centers and application maintenance outsourcing is the source of this concern. Generally all these platforms need groups of administrators to maintain and handle multiple systems, applications and network devices using powerful access IDs, known as privileged IDs.
With Privileged IDs a person can do anything, for instance restart, install, and reconfigure new systems, shift logs and existing systems without any hassle. The point of concern here is that these IDs are known to administrative teams that can lead to accountability and regulatory non-compliance issues.
What can Privileged Identity Management do for you?
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) facilitates businesses by offering an easy and safe method to use safety measures than simply relying on the administrators. Simply put, PIM belongs to Identity and Access Management domain that concentrates on special needs of powerful accounts in an enterprise, within the IT infrastructure. It comprises provisioning and user account life cycle management, password vault, auditing and access management. PIM is mainly used for monitoring administrator activity in critical environments, for instance network equipments, production servers, databases and applications.
Advanced Privileged Identity Management Solutions
Today leading brands specializing in opensource security solutions have introduced PIM solutions. These companies undertake a Privileged Access and Activity Monitoring approach to build solutions that address diverse needs of industry sectors such as IT/ITES, telecom, and Banking. Services offered by them include:-
Planning Services
Executive Workshop and Business Requirement Analysis
PIM Strategy and Roadmap
Best fit solution identification
Proof of Concepts
Implementation Services
User Life Cycle Management
Shared ID Management
Session Management
Access Brokers and Single Sign On
Activity Monitoring(SIEM)
Sustenance Services
PIM Health Check
Post Implementation Support
Enhancements
Change Requests
Performance Optimization
Traditionally controlling distribution of passwords to privileged environments was considered sufficient. However, today auditors pay close attention to administrator activities in these environments. The core capability of an advanced PIM suite is to address these aspects. Hence, the privileged user logs in and is given access for that session based on certain company defined regulations. The idea is to eradicate account and password sprawl and allow the user access to only those rights that is needed to perform his task.
