Date Published: September 2018
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Author(s)
Karen Waltermire (NIST), Tom Conroy (MITRE), Marisa Harriston (MITRE), Chinedum Irrechukwu (MITRE), Navaneeth Krishnan (MITRE), James Memole-Doodson (MITRE), Benjamin Nkrumah (MITRE), Harry Perper (MITRE), Susan Prince (MITRE), Devin Wynne (MITRE)
Announcement
Privileged accounts provide elevated, often unrestricted access to an organization's underlying information systems and technology, making them rich targets for both external and internal malicious actors. Often referred to as the "keys to the kingdom," these accounts have been used in successful attacks to gain access to corporate resources and critical systems (e.g. "crown jewels"), resulting in data breaches.
Complex organizations, including financial services companies, face challenges managing privileged accounts, which opens a significant risk to their business. If used improperly, these accounts can cause significant operational damage including data theft, espionage, sabotage, ransom, or bypassing important controls.
To address these challenges, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has developed a practice guide that provides practical guidance to financial services companies who are interested in implementing a privileged account management (PAM) solution.
This practice guide demonstrates PAM solutions that use commercially available products to appropriately secure and enforce organizational policies for privileged account use. The NCCoE developed a PAM reference design that outlines how monitoring, auditing, and authentication controls can combine to prevent unauthorized access to, and allow rapid detection of unapproved use, of privileged accounts. Our standards-based practice guide reference design can be used in whole or in part.
Privileged account management (PAM) is a domain within identity and access management (IdAM) that focuses on monitoring and controlling the use of privileged accounts. Privileged accounts include local and domain administrative accounts, emergency accounts, application management, and service accounts. These powerful accounts provide elevated, often nonrestricted, access to the underlying IT resources and technology, which is why external and internal malicious actors seek to gain access to them. Hence, it is critical to monitor, audit, control, and manage privileged account usage. Many organizations, including financial sector companies, face challenges in managing privileged accounts.
The goal of this project is to demonstrate a PAM capability that effectively protects, monitors, and manages privileged account access, including life-cycle management, authentication, authorization, auditing, and access controls.
Privileged account management (PAM) is a domain within identity and access management (IdAM) that focuses on monitoring and controlling the use of privileged accounts. Privileged accounts include local and domain administrative accounts, emergency accounts, application management, and service...
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Privileged account management (PAM) is a domain within identity and access management (IdAM) that focuses on monitoring and controlling the use of privileged accounts. Privileged accounts include local and domain administrative accounts, emergency accounts, application management, and service accounts. These powerful accounts provide elevated, often nonrestricted, access to the underlying IT resources and technology, which is why external and internal malicious actors seek to gain access to them. Hence, it is critical to monitor, audit, control, and manage privileged account usage. Many organizations, including financial sector companies, face challenges in managing privileged accounts.
The goal of this project is to demonstrate a PAM capability that effectively protects, monitors, and manages privileged account access, including life-cycle management, authentication, authorization, auditing, and access controls.
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Keywords
access control; auditing; authentication; authorization; life-cycle management; multifactor authentication; PAM; privileged account management; provisioning management
Control Families
Access Control; Configuration Management; Identification and Authentication; Program Management; Risk Assessment; System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity
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