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But what if instead of scrupulously designing access policies and rigorously monitoring every privileged account’s activities to prevent a malicious user from misusing their privileges one could stop giving anyone privileged access at all? Why delegate access to a sensitive system when you can delegate a specific task? This approach would work best for helpdesk staff, external contractors or outsourced IT administrators – in other words, for anyone who must handle repetitive and mundane maintenance tasks across endpoints, servers, devices, and applications.
By providing out-of-the-box automation for common administrative workflows, such a Privileged Task Management solution would dramatically reduce the risk of privilege misuse or cyber-attack, since there are no longer any privileged sessions to manage and monitor. It would also provide substantial cost and time reduction for helpdesk calls, equipment maintenance and other IT tasks which can be performed more efficiently with automation.
In this KuppingerCole webinar, you will learn about:
In the first part of the webinar, Martin Kuppinger, founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, will look at different approaches towards restricting access of privileged users across heterogeneous environments. He will discuss the various points of time for restricting access, such as during authentication and at runtime, but also the level of granularity that can be achieved using various technical approaches.
In the second part, Andy Harris, Engineering Director at Osirium, will describe the Privileged Task Management approach in detail and explains what kinds of tasks lend themselves to delegation. Furthermore, he talks about how they can handle input parameters and, last but not least, how improving security and reducing administrative costs do not have to be mutually exclusive.
