No one wants a security breach to happen, but the media will be sure to pick it up when it does. By then, it is too late. Millions of dollars in fines or ransom notes later, and with a tarnished marketplace reputation, the company or government agency wishes they had paid more attention to their security protocols.
One way to achieve higher security is to instill a proper Privileged Access Management (PAM) initiative into the cybersecurity workflow. PAM is the process of determining who has access to what types of information as it creates an integrated view of risk, threats, and controls. PAM incorporates all-encompassing methodologies for how to use identities securely, how to enable logging and auditing for privileged identities for the quickest cyberattack response, and how to define what is privilege and what is not for an organization. In other words, PAM refers to a multi-dimensional cybersecurity strategy involving processes, technology, and people that aims to secure and monitor both human and non-human (machine)-privileged activities and identities throughout an organization’s IT landscape. For it to be successful, any such system has to be a part of the entity’s culture.