How to Keep Privileged Accounts Safe and Share Them Securely?
It’s a matter of fact: Every IT team needs to use large numbers of user identities and passwords for managing servers, network devices, databases, etc. It is very simple if the organization is small and you are the only systems administrator. But it becomes difficult as soon as two or more people start to work with these accounts. Privileged accounts, such as that of the domain administrator or service account, allow very powerful, usually unlimited access to system and data, and if they are not properly secured and maintained, they represent a very high risk to an organization’s security.
How many servers and devices are accessible under your “favorite” password, such as “Qwerty123” or just left in a factory-default state forever? Is it secure? Obviously not… Of course, you can utilize many passwords, writing them down on a whiteboard in your server room or storing them in shared spreadsheets. But how would you force all members of your team to use these tools? Bet on it; someone will change accounts without updating a spreadsheet anyway, and this will happen...
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