Implementing an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution is a complex undertaking that involves significant investment in time and resources. As a result, project leaders are laser-focused on extending IAM’s footprint to accomplish three goals:
With nearly 80% of Identity and Access Management deployments ending in failure, these goals are why organizations reach out to STEALTHbits to help them with their IAM solutions. First, we assist them with cleaning up their Active Directories so they have the right access model in place. Second, we help them extend Identity and Access Management beyond applications into unstructured data to achieve a 100% security footprint with only minimal investment.
For some years now, we’ve been working with partners to add a third piece: Privileged Access Management (PAM). As STEALTHbits Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jonathan Sander advises, “…a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy requires three prongs: IAM, DAG, and PAM.” Forrester estimates that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials so PAM is a critical third leg of your cybersecurity stool.
Our customers who have adopted a 3-pronged IAM, DAG, and PAM cybersecurity strategy with STEALTHbits and partners like Thycotic are seeing these benefits:
For example, STEALTHbits’ Active Directory Permissions Analyzer feeds PAM solutions insight on privileged identities three layers down: 1) root/admin, 2) security principals like domain admins and non-human accounts like application and service accounts, and 3) accounts with elevated rights or access to sensitive data that may be candidates for greater control. Our DAG solution can use a PAM vault, in turn, to securely check-out passwords for doing file scans and other analyses.
To learn more about the requirements you need for a successful 3-pronged IAM, DAG, and PAM cybersecurity strategy, please register for our webinar featuring Thycotic’s Chief Security Scientist Joseph Carson, CISSP and STEALTHbits’ CTO Jonathan Sander.
Tuula Fai is the Senior Marketing Director of StealthAUDIT at STEALTHbits. For the past 20 years, she has worked in a variety of roles within the software industry, starting as a developer and implementation engineer before moving into product marketing and digital campaigns. Having worked in both customer service and human resources, she is passionate about safeguarding customer and employee data as part of overall security initiatives. She graduated Summa cum Laude from Georgetown with an MBA in marketing and IT, and has won two technology marketing awards. You can find her running and writing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
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