Among those failing to reach even a basic level of maturity:
“The 2019 State of Privileged Access Management Maturity Report is a wakeup call for organizations worldwide to immediately assess their PAM practices with a goal of moving beyond dangerous habits to implementing a PAM Lifecycle Model, which is outlined in our report,” said Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic.
Thycotic introduced the free, online PAM Maturity Model assessment survey in Q4 2018 to help organizations determine progress along their journey to lower privileged account risk, increase business agility and improve operational efficiency. The PAM Maturity assessment consisted of 11 questions that determined how far an organization has progressed through the four phases of PAM maturity.
As the basis of understanding the results of the PAM Maturity report, the four phases of Thycotic’s PAM Maturity Model assessment consisted of the following:
“Lack of visibility into how many unprotected privileged accounts exist in an organization and where they are located is an enormous risk for organizations,” said Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. “Because privileged accounts such as local admin and service accounts exist everywhere in multiple places throughout an organization, trying to manually discover and manage them is virtually impossible. Your first step should be automating privileged account discovery on a continuous basis so that you can see what you need to protect and what security controls should be in place.”