Once controls are in place, organizations need to track privileged activity and monitor it throughout the identity’s entire lifecycle to identify potential threats, remediate threats in real time, and ensure seamless audits. Attempting to do this manually can be error-prone, time consuming, and almost impossible to manage because access requirements change over time and new identities are consistently being provisioned. This is not an efficient or sustainable way to manage privileged identities, especially for large IT organizations with complex hybrid environments.
Many organizations turn to regular attestation or access certifications as part of their internal identity governance strategy, but those are usually manual processes for IT as well. And it’s likely that they aren’t tracking and recording all privileged activity.
Organizations need a way to catch the misuse of privilege and stop it immediately—not waiting until an audit or incident occurs before the investigation begins. Every organization must have a strategy to keep up with privileged access to minimize the risk of network incidents, failed internal and external audits, non-compliance fines, and the added risk of a breach.
All of these challenges could prompt a painful audit or provide an ideal opening for intruders to exploit. Organizations must have the ability to automate the identification of the over-privileged and revoke or adjust privileges when they are no longer needed.