Amid the increasing sophistication of cyber threats and the potential risks associated with flaky access security, PAM challenges have become a significant concern for organisations worldwide.
Privileged accounts have extensive access rights and control over the organisation’s network, critical systems, and data, making them prime targets for cyber attackers. They will aim to gain unauthorised access to these accounts in order to steal finances, disrupt workflows and shut down the IT environment abruptly. To ensure that this unauthorised access doesn’t go unchecked and to effectively strengthen your access security framework and safeguard your valuable assets, you must have a PAM solution in place. Enter Sectona..
Sectona is a leading Privileged Access Management (PAM) company. With its flagship PAM solution, Sectona helps enterprises mitigate the risk of privileged account abuse while handling pam challenges effectively. Let’s dive deeper.
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The digital transformation is in full-force, with organisations either adopting a hybrid infrastructure or entirely migrating their workloads to the cloud. Needless to say, this cloud migration comes with its set of challenges and risks in ensuring access security and sensitive data protection.
Sectona PAM enables deep API integration with cloud providers, allowing you to quickly identify and categorise resources based on policy sets and facilitate faster onboarding of new users or system administrators.
Furthermore, you can leverage its dynamic grouping capabilities to ensure that users are granted access to the appropriate resources based on their roles and responsibilities while adhering to security policies.
There are quite a few pam challenges associated with the traditional approaches of remote access security using Windows jump servers, SSH bastion hosts, and VPNs.
Implementing and maintaining jump servers, bastion hosts, and VPNs may require significant network configuration changes, which can introduce complexity and potential points of failure. It can also create additional administrative overhead, especially in large and dynamic environments.
Moreover, VPNs typically provide persistent access to an entire network, granting users access to various resources and services within that network.
With Sectona PAM, you can go about RDP and SSH access without installing any agents or plugins. Also, instead of having persistent access, you can use its Just-in-time capabilities, wherein privileged access is granted on a temporary and as-needed basis.
This approach addresses common PAM challenges by reducing the attack surface and enforcing a stronger access security setup.
Use Sectona PAM to govern who has access to privileged accounts, what level of access they should have, and for what purposes. You can also ensure that your access security practices align with relevant regulations and industry standards.
Furthermore, Sectona PAM allows you to conduct regular reviews of privileged entitlements to validate the necessity of access and identify and eliminate any inappropriate or outdated permissions.
Hardcoded credentials within DevOps systems pose a huge risk to the access security framework of an organisation. Sectona PAM provides secure storage and dynamic retrieval of credentials; instead of hardcoding these credentials directly in the code or configuration files, it lets applications and processes fetch credentials stored within a vault (encrypted and protected from unauthorised access) on a need-basis. It allows the developers/operations personnel to temporarily access privileged resources without having permanent administrative rights, reducing the risk of privilege misuse.
Now, enhance your access security framework by using Sectona PAM’s features of real-time session recording as well as post-activity recorded session logs of all privileged activities for an enhanced audit. But that’s not all.
Aside from allowing monitoring of sessions, Sectona PAM’s Advanced Threat Analytics provides a Risk Scoring feature that analyses each session against 30+ varied yet focused parameters that are common modes of privileged account attacks.
The risk scoring level is set with four different categories ranging from low to critical, the configuration values of which can be adjusted according to the requirement. This score gives us an insight into the criticality of risks during each session, thereby enabling us to identify and prioritise any anomalous activities persistent or posing as a threat and act on them accordingly.
Organisations worldwide trust Sectona’s integrated and easy-to-use components to secure dynamic remote workforce access across a multitude of setups, such as on-premises or cloud workloads, endpoints, and machine-to-machine communication.
Take a step toward fulfilling your access security objectives by scheduling a no-commitment call with one of our product specialists. Discuss your needs and requirements and sit back as we figure out a way to align them with what our PAM has to offer. Request a demo today to overcome your PAM challenges effectively.