Enhancing Privileged Access Regulatory Compliance: The Three Focus Points
Managing enterprise privileged accounts across diverse user groups —from internal teams to external vendors and remote workers—has become increasingly complex.
Numerous privileged user accounts with missing systematic access policies create gaps in the security posture and impact effective regulatory compliance.
When different teams within an enterprise adopt varied technologies for managing work, building a toughened network architecture gets challenging.
Addressing these challenges must start with securing enterprise privileged user accounts. Here are the three priorities for enhancing privileged user access control and achieving regulatory compliance.
1. Consolidate Technologies for Managing Privileges
Enterprises must consolidate technologies to manage privileged access across user personas, such as internal teams, external vendors, remote workers, etc.
Organizations can implement a unified view and standardized security measures by adopting a holistic platform with multi-tenant support. This consolidation:
- Simplifies administration, reduces complexity and enhances the security posture by providing consistent access controls and governance mechanisms.
- Enables secure access provisioning aligned with business needs while meeting stringent compliance requirements across various user groups.
2. Identify Reporting Requirements and User Needs Early On
Early identification of reporting requirements and user needs is critical during technology refresh cycles. By focusing on user requirements from the outset, enterprises can align their IT strategies closer to business objectives.
Understanding user needs helps define clear use cases and ensures that the unified solution addresses specific operational challenges. This proactive approach enhances user productivity and operational efficiency. It also encourages informed decision-making by providing comprehensive insights into access patterns, usage trends, and compliance status.
3. Improve Productivity and Efficiency with a Single Stack Security Product Deployment
Deploying a single-stack security product across the organization significantly improves productivity and efficiency.
- A unified platform offers a centralized view of security operations and governance, streamlining management and reducing administrative overhead.
- It facilitates consistent policies, controls, and reporting mechanisms accessible through a standard interface, enhancing transparency and auditability.
- This approach simplifies compliance audits and strengthens security by eliminating silos.
- It also reduces the risk of configuration errors or gaps between multiple systems.
- Enabling secure access and governance within a unified framework allows enterprises to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and high availability.
Bridging the Gap with Sectona
Sectona’s Unified Privileged, Remote Access & Endpoint Privilege Management offerings help organizations enhance security, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
Sectona provides a unified platform designed to meet the complex security challenges faced by modern enterprises.
The robust solution consolidates Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Governance (PAG), Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), and advanced account analytics into a cohesive system. This integration enhances security and optimizes operational efficiency by simplifying IT management.
Whether securing developer environments with precise access controls or enabling seamless remote user access, Sectona ensures comprehensive protection without the complexity of traditional security setups.
Explore other features of Sectona’s Privileged Access Management, and feel free to talk with our access security team for specific questions or to take a demo of the PAM tool.
Related reading: Take a look at our blog on “Re-Imagining Privilege Management Delivery and Adoption for the Modern Workforce.”
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