Best Practices for Securing Privileged Accounts

This document describes the business problems which privileged access management systems are intended to address. It goes on to describe best practices for defining and enforcing policies regarding
discovering systems on which to secure access to sensitive accounts, updating and storing privileged passwords and enabling access to privileged accounts.

Privileged accounts include administrator accounts, embedded accounts used by one system to connect to
another and accounts used to run service programs.

Hitachi ID Privileged Access Manager is a security product that enables organizations to define and enforce
policies regarding access to privileged accounts on a variety of systems. It enables organizations to control what users and programs have access to what privileged accounts, to control when such access is allowed and how access is activated and deactivated. Access rights may be permanent or temporary. All access is logged and subject to audit reports.

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