Privileged Threats & the Top-6 Privileged Access Security Priorities

Privileges facilitate essential operational functions across an enterprise, enabling users, applications, and system processes elevated rights to access specific resources and complete work-related tasks. Yet, the potential for misuse or abuse of privilege by insiders, malware, and external threat actors presents considerable cyber risk that is inadequately managed across many organizations. Forrester Research estimates that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials (passwords, tokens, keys, and certificates.). Consider for a moment all the places where...