Administrator accounts open every door in your IT environment, which makes them the first thing an intruder looks for. VOWTECH designs, deploys and supports privileged access management and privileged identity management for organisations in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and across the UAE, so powerful access is granted deliberately, briefly and on the record.
In many organisations a handful of accounts can reset any password, read any mailbox and delete any backup. Those accounts are often shared between engineers, used for everyday work, protected by passwords that never change and known to suppliers who finished their project long ago. One stolen credential of that kind turns a minor incident into a serious one.
Privileged access management (PAM) deals with the accounts and sessions: credentials are stored in a vault, rotated automatically and checked out when needed, with sessions to servers and network devices brokered and recorded. Privileged identity management (PIM) deals with roles: nobody holds administrator rights permanently, and elevation is requested, approved and time-limited.
The two approaches complement each other, and the right mix depends on whether your estate is mainly on-premises, mainly cloud such as Microsoft 365, or both. VOWTECH assesses what you have, recommends a proportionate solution and carries out the configuration and onboarding.
Both reduce the damage a compromised administrator account can cause. They simply start from different ends.
Controls the credentials themselves. Administrator, root, service and device passwords live in an encrypted vault, and engineers connect through the PAM platform without ever seeing the password.
Controls who holds which role and for how long. Users are eligible for a privileged role but must activate it, with justification, approval and MFA, for a limited period.
The layer that makes privileged activity visible. Every request, approval, checkout and session is logged, giving you a reliable answer to the question of who did what, and when.
The building blocks of a working privileged access programme.
We locate privileged accounts across directories, servers, databases, network devices and cloud tenants, including dormant, shared and service accounts that have been forgotten.
Privileged passwords and keys are moved into a vault with rotation policies, so credentials change regularly and immediately after each use where required.
Permanent administrator membership is replaced with eligible roles that are activated on demand, approved where appropriate and expire automatically.
Multi-factor authentication is enforced on every privileged action, and roles are redesigned around least privilege so each administrator has only the rights the job requires.
Remote sessions to critical systems are routed through a gateway that records activity and can terminate a session. Logs can be forwarded to your SIEM solution.
Scheduled reviews confirm that each privileged role is still needed. Reports show who holds access, who approved it and how it was used.
Introduced in stages so administrators are never locked out of the systems they look after.
Privileged accounts, current practices and the systems that matter most are identified.
Roles, approval rules, rotation schedules and emergency access procedures are defined.
The solution is deployed for a small group of systems and administrators and refined.
Remaining accounts and systems are onboarded in waves, and administrators are trained.
Alerts, reports and periodic access reviews keep the controls effective over time.
Ordinary account security is not enough for accounts that can override everything else.
Ransomware operators typically seek administrator rights before acting. Removing standing privileges slows them down.
Actions are tied to a named individual, which supports accountability and makes investigations possible.
Vendors receive time-limited, recorded access to the system they support instead of a permanent password.
VOWTECH is based in Abu Dhabi and supports the platform, the directory and the servers behind it.
Collect and correlate privileged activity logs with the rest of your security events.
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Learn moreOngoing administration, patching and monitoring of the servers privileged accounts control.
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Learn moreUnderstand where privileged access sits among your wider organisational risks.
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Learn moreTell us about your servers, cloud tenants and IT team. We will find your privileged accounts and design controls that fit the way your administrators work.
