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Modeling Privilege Access Sprawl for Zero Trust Security A privilege sprawl occurs when privileges, or special rights to a system, have been granted to too many people. It’s a best-case scenario for cyberattackers. When privilege sprawl gets out of hand, an organization’s attack surface grows and becomes a pain point …

In the first installment of this two-part blog series, I highlighted a blind spot in many incident response plans that allows attackers to regain a foothold even after they’ve been contained following a breach. In this final installment of the blog series, the focus will be on two key tactics …

It takes just a moment to see that your privileged access controls have been breached. But, after you realize that your IT systems are compromised, you face an incident response process that could last many months. In this two-part blog series, we discuss that the key to effective remediation starts …

With summer behind us, I couldn’t be more thrilled than to announce the release of our v2.12 SecureONE platform update. With this month's release, Remediant leads the industry in providing Privileged Access Risk dashboards for executives and security practitioners. These dashboards help organizations to visualize, analyze, and reduce their privileged …

We at Remediant are thrilled to be included as an honorable mention in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management report. According to the report, “Gartner defines the privileged access management (PAM) market as a foundational security technology to protect accounts, credentials and operations that offer an elevated (“privileged”) …

Let’s be real. If you’ve worked in cybersecurity for more than a few minutes, you know that magical silver bullets just don’t exist for stopping breaches or lateral movement. We face a complex landscape. Holes and vulnerabilities—both known and unknown—riddle the ecosystems where we operate. We confront problems that are …

We’ve all watched those movies … the ones with the eye-rolling assumptions that film writers and directors sometimes make about IT security. They show hackers in a dark room, their faces dimly lit by their monitors. They type plain-English commands onto a dark computer screen, stare intently at their work, …

Privileged user accounts have elevated privileges such as Domain Administrator rights or root privileges. PAM solutions were developed to monitor and record privileged user account activity or sessions. They monitor this privileged access to network devices such as Windows, Linux and Macs. These PAM solutions help organizations meet audit and compliance …