Thycotic

With competing demands, how do these leaders make real-world decisions about where and when to allocate finite resources in a way that best serves the interest of their organization, both now and in the future? Are decisions made on facts or fear? What kind of evaluation criteria are needed from vendors to help them make the most informed decisions?

Thycotic’s free, online PAM Maturity Assessment helps organizations determine progress along their journey to lower privileged access risk, increase business agility, and improve operational efficiency. Based on security industry best practices and deep experience with more than 10,000 PAM customers worldwide, the PAM Maturity Assessment asks questions that determine how far an organization has progressed through the four phases of PAM maturity described below.

The first stage of privilege management Most organizations with an office full of Windows computers launch their privilege management strategy using Microsoft’s Group Policy Objects (GPO). If you’ve been trying to get a handle on user access rights and want to manage privileges with centralized policies, GPO offers a good starting point. 

With up to 80% of breaches due to compromised credentials, Privileged Access Management (PAM) has become a fundamental security priority for organizations of all types. Yet, cyber threats are becoming more persistent and business and technical environments more complex and interdependent. Therefore, proactive enterprises and rapidly growing organizations are going beyond basic PAM security controls to fortify and expand their privilege protection programs.

Application control allows least privilege policies to be successful because users can continue using applications they need with no downtime or loss of productivity. Your security and IT operations teams must work together to create application control policies that match the needs of your organization. In an initial discovery phase, create a list of all applications in use and flag those that require privileged accounts. Once you have this list, you can create policies that cover all potential scenarios for trusted, untrusted, and unknown applications.