How To Handle Increasing Needs for Privileged Access as Your Organization Expands

The best way to handle increasing privileged access needs as your organization expands is to choose a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution that grows with you. PAM refers to managing and securing accounts with access to privileged information, including sensitive systems and data. IT administrators, HR staff and other employees with access to sensitive information should be managed with a PAM solution to protect your data and reduce the risk of cyber attacks.

Keep reading to learn about the challenges your growing organization may face in managing privileged access, why a scalable PAM solution is important and how KeeperPAM^® can help secure your organization’s growth.

Challenges in managing privileged access as your organization grows

Your growing organization can face many challenges when managing privileged access, including the following:

• Inconsistent access policies: As your organization grows, it may be difficult to maintain consistent access policies for its privileged accounts. If your teams are spread across multiple offices or global locations, your organization may find that access policies are inconsistent. These inconsistencies can lead to privilege creep, which is a gradual accumulation of network access levels beyond what someone needs to do their job. They can also lead to users having standing privileges, which are indefinite access to resources that they don’t need to have access to at all times
• Increased risk of insider threats: As your organization grows, managing a larger number of employees, contractors and third-party vendors inevitably increases the risk of insider threats. These threats may result from intentional malicious activity or simple carelessness and human error.
• Lack of visibility and auditing of privileged access: Tracking and auditing privileged access becomes more challenging as your organization grows if you don’t have full visibility into who has access to which systems and data. However, by using a scalable PAM solution, you can ensure privileged access remains secure and compliant with regulatory requirements, making it easier to investigate incidents following a security breach.
• Difficulty in scaling PAM solutions and infrastructure: Your IT infrastructure will become more complex as your organization grows. Your PAM solution must accommodate an increasing number of privileged users, devices and systems. Without a scalable PAM solution, your organization’s security and productivity may be hindered.

Why choosing a PAM solution that scales with you is important

For many reasons, it’s important to select a PAM solution that scales with your organization. These reasons include managing more privileged accounts, minimizing security threats, ensuring compliance and reducing administrative overhead.

Managing a growing number of privileged accounts

A modern PAM solution that scales with your organization should automate account provisioning, de-provisioning and auditing. This means the ideal PAM solution will create accounts and grant privileged access to the correct users when needed, remove access when it is no longer required and track who accessed sensitive information. The PAM solution will manage an increasing number of privileged accounts, ensuring access is granted only to those who need it.

Reducing the risk of insider and external threats

Your PAM solution should reduce the risks of both insider and external threats by following the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP), which ensures users have only the minimum access necessary to complete their tasks. This approach reduces the risks of suspicious activity going unnoticed, allowing for better session monitoring and real-time alert analysis. Your ideal PAM solution should also offer Just-In-Time (JIT) access to resources without exposing login credentials. This ensures that access can be provisioned on a time-limited basis and that the credentials will automatically rotate once that time expires.

Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards

Choose a PAM solution that automates reporting, provides centralized logging and ensures that privileged access to sensitive data and systems is controlled and auditable. Your PAM solution should monitor and report access permissions across your whole organization, regardless of where employees are located. Remote work is increasing the attack surface for cybercriminals, so it’s important to use a PAM solution that scales with your organization’s growth to maintain control over remote auditing, monitoring and reporting.

Enabling scalable access management across hybrid environments

Whether your systems are in the cloud, a hybrid environment or on-premises, your PAM solution should work smoothly across all spaces. It must also scale across hybrid environments to provide centralized access management without concerns about system integration.

Streamlining operational efficiency and reducing administrative overhead

A good PAM solution automates the manual processes typically involved in managing privileged accounts to reduce administrative overhead. Some of these automated processes include password rotation, access provisioning and auditing. By not having to spend time on these tasks, your IT teams can focus on higher-priority tasks, reducing the chances of human error compromising your organization’s security.

How KeeperPAM^® supports scalable and secure PAM for growing organizations

Although many PAM solutions are available, KeeperPAM supports scalable and secure PAM for your growing organization with its superior security features.

Scalable cloud-native architecture

KeeperPAM is a cloud-native PAM solution that sets itself apart from other PAM solutions originally built for on-prem environments. KeeperPAM offers your growing organization a scalable way to manage privileged access as the number of employees increases. Since KeeperPAM is a cloud-based system, it can grow easily with your organization for each user, device and system.

Centralized access management across hybrid environments

Your growing organization can benefit from KeeperPAM’s ability to centralize access management across hybrid environments. No matter where your sensitive resources are located, KeeperPAM ensures you can manage your systems in the cloud, on-prem or in a hybrid environment. With KeeperPAM, you can manage privileged access on a unified platform, so you don’t have to rely on separate tools. This improves your organization’s security by simplifying access management, even as you grow.

Zero-trust and zero-knowledge security

KeeperPAM is zero trust and zero knowledge. With zero-trust security, KeeperPAM constantly verifies users’ identities, meaning no one is automatically granted access to privileged information. KeeperPAM’s zero-knowledge encryption ensures that you are the only person who can access your sensitive information, including login credentials. Even Keeper’s employees cannot access anything stored in your Keeper Vault.

Streamlined privileged access with automation

KeeperPAM supports scalability by securing privileged access to sensitive information through automation. By eliminating the need for administrators to grant and remove access manually, KeeperPAM reduces human error and allows administrators to focus on monitoring privileged access to keep your organization secure. As your organization grows and adds new users, KeeperPAM automatically manages and adjusts privileged access according to your role-based policies, ensuring that authorized individuals can access systems and data securely.

Auditing, monitoring and compliance features

KeeperPAM helps your organization stay compliant with required regulations and industry standards through its auditing and monitoring capabilities. Within KeeperPAM, you can find detailed records of which privileged users accessed sensitive data or systems, what they did with that information and when their sessions occurred. This includes session recording and keystroke logging of privileged sessions, as well as logging events to any SIEM. By tracking privileged users’ activities, your organization can quickly identify suspicious activity and take action if necessary. KeeperPAM ensures that privileged accounts are monitored so every user acts appropriately with sensitive information and your organization remains compliant with security regulations.

Secure remote access for distributed teams

Having secure remote access for teams is a crucial feature of KeeperPAM that can help your expanding organization. With the rise in remote work, organizations must protect sensitive data no matter where an employee or vendor resides. KeeperPAM ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive data by enforcing PoLP and recording remote privileged user activities. Another key aspect of KeeperPAM is Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), which monitors, records and secures isolated browser sessions. These features are designed to help you control and track privileged account activity across your teams. Since KeeperPAM allows you to monitor which users access sensitive information on a unified platform, you can more easily ensure that any authorized user from any location has secure access as your organization grows.

Grow your organization securely with KeeperPAM

As your organization continues to grow, you need to prepare for your privileged access needs to grow with it. That’s why you should implement a PAM solution like KeeperPAM that scales with your growing organization. With its centralized platform, KeeperPAM will help your organization manage and monitor privileged accounts through enterprise password management, secrets management, connection management, zero-trust network access and remote browser isolation.

Request a demo of KeeperPAM today to protect your sensitive data and systems, no matter how large your organization becomes.