Overview Be it on-prem or hybrid set-up, organizations continuously face multiple demands from multiple end-users. Once the number of end-users proliferates, the risk of unwanted access magnifies. To manage, control and monitor end-users, endpoint security solutions work as both restrictive and reliable security measures to build a ring-fence around the endpoint privileges. It has been observed that endpoint privilege abuse is the reason behind many IT incidents such as – Data breach Insider-attacks Cyber-espionage Application abuse Social Engineering ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (E ..read more

Overview Endpoints are primary targets of an increasingly sophisticated set of attacks. This is due to expansion of attack surface created by ever-increasing number of endpoints. It is not just the numbers, end-users working from remote locations also multiply risks. Today, endpoint security has taken a different avenue as per technology trends. Endpoint security has been there for decades, but transformation in usage of devices and evolution of new threat patterns have triggered the development of new endpoint security techniques. New service providers have emerged with novel approaches to de ..read more

Brief Background Many organizations manage their IT operations not just with their internal end-users, but also with external users such as third-party vendors, partners, contractors, technicians, or other external IT staff. Quite often the organizations do not have a choice but to allow the external users to access critical systems for essential business functions that include remote privileged operations. Such scenarios are quite predominant in the post-pandemic era and thus security concerns have proliferated. Who is accessing the business-critical database? Why is the user accessing it? W ..read more

Overview  Today, we are experiencing a growing assortment of applications, systems, APIs, and data that is scattered across IT networks in distributed IT infrastructure and multi-cloud environments. This assortment of critical information is constantly at risk from unauthorized privileged access through employees, third parties, and customers. A single unprecedented incident, such as the compromise of privileged identity through any “trusted identity,” is enough to shake the foundation of enterprise IT infrastructure. The Zero Trust model, in this context, has become a reliable IT securit ..read more

Overview  Implementing privileged access management solution (PAM) strengthens the foundation for robust identity and access management framework. It offers important mechanisms such as authentication (MFA), authorization, and audits – key security components to safeguard the privileged accounts, confidential information and comply with the regulations. However, weaknesses in the management of key processes could lead to security blind spots, resulting in accidental or intentional breaches. In this blog we have discussed three common mistakes that can impact enterprises’ privileged access ..read more

Overview Being the flagship product of ARCON, Privileged Access Management (PAM) is evolving continuously in terms of new features and functionalities. Recently ARCON | PAM has introduced ServiceNow feature that allows the administrators to raise and track IT service requests. It is a new step to build credential vault (either internal or external) for the JAR files. The Use Case In a distributed IT environment, organizations take the help of JAR files which is a package file used to aggregate many JAVA class files and associated metadata and resources into one file for smooth distribution. Th ..read more

The Context The privileged access attack vector is very large, and it is extremely crucial for risk leaders to architect the privileged access management (PAM) in such a way that ensures minimum chances of exploitation.  Privileged Session Monitoring, one of the critical functionalities in privileged access management, manages privileged user sessions. It provides tight controls for any privileged users or a third-party requiring access to critical systems.  Isolation, monitoring, and recording are the key purposes of session monitoring and if any organization’s PAM initiative does n ..read more

The Context Privileged accounts are the ‘keys’ to enterprises’ highly sensitive and confidential information. These accounts are the crown jewels. Is it safe to keep the ‘keys’ accessible 24 hours a day to these crown jewels? Not really; however, organizations frequently make the mistake of allowing ‘always on’ privileged access to critical systems. As a result, the security of ‘crown jewels’ could be vulnerable to compromised insiders and third parties.  The objective behind creating privileges is to speed up any IT infrastructure and administrative tasks through Segregation of Duties (S ..read more

Overview Information security vulnerabilities have increased drastically due to alterations in work culture (organizations switching to hybrid setups) and the rapid digitalization of business processes—both for IT operations and IT administration. However, to allocate critical IT tasks and fasten day-to-day IT tasks, the number of end-users is growing exponentially. Endpoint privilege management, in this regard, remains a largely unattended area. Unmonitored and ungoverned endpoints invariably lead to misuse of endpoints, resulting in data breaches and data exfiltration. In this blog, ARCON h ..read more

About modern IT set-up The number of digital identities is proliferating ceaselessly in every IT setup. The influence of hybrid work environments, the advent of cloud computing, and exponential growth in business automation processes have led to a drastic change in IT environments, which now require lots of users with both human and non-human identities to perform different IT tasks.  Every end-user has an individual identity and obtains access to the organization’s IT resources to perform their administrative and operational tasks. However, how do organizations respond when it comes to ..read more