Employees come and go; they change roles and departments. As the user’s access needs changes, you should monitor and adjust privileges for user accounts.
Failing to revoke privileges once they are no longer necessary generates privilege creep. That makes the whole system vulnerable in case of an infection.
But tracking permissions for user accounts in the dynamic environment of a large company is time and resource consuming.
Automated privileged access management solutions, like Heimdal’s, increase visibility across the infrastructure.
It would only take a few settings and clicks to automatically revoke Brad’s access to Accounting’s database once he moved to HR, for example.
If Brad clicks on a phishing link and compromises his user account, there will be less damage. The potential attacker will only gain access to HR data, instead of HR and Accounting.
