According to Business Insider, 80 percent of people give up on their new year resolutions within the first 30 days. It could be the same for your business and IT security goals too!
The secret to falling on the better side of the stats is to make a single resolution charted with clear plans to achieve it.
Since the onset of the pandemic, with the continuing shift to remote and hybrid working, security threats have been on a steady rise everywhere. Hence it is of utmost importance that businesses focus on security resolutions, and not just on growth and expansion. Lucky for you, this article outlines 5 easy steps to streamline your IAM and in turn achieve your security goals for the new year, with ADManager Plus.
These simple steps/guidelines will help you:
Tighten your organization's security by reducing the attack radius and potential vulnerabilities
Establish an organization wide standard for identity and access management
Fortify your organization against threats due to the sudden shift to WFH and remote work scenarios.
Ensure adherence to organizational and IT security policies, to name a few.
Take stock of all critical resources, people who have access to those resources, users who are active, inactive, have privileged access, all devices on the network and the users who can access it, etc. This would be helpful in performing a gap analysis to identify the weakness and security vulnerabilities in the existing IAM processes.
ADManager Plus provides 200+ reports on AD objects, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Exchange, File servers and more. These reports require no scripting and can be emailed, exported and delegated in a few clicks. Know more!
Ensure the permissions assigned are in accordance with the principle of least privileges and role-based access control (RBAC). Any residual access or permissions from the users' previous role, inappropriate and excessive access should be updated and stale, orphan, shadow admin accounts, etc. should be removed to prevent exploitation by attackers.
ADManager Plus' reactive user management templates can help you implement this without hassle as they are highly customizable and can also be granularly delegated based on your organization's need. You can find the steps to create a custom template, here.
Legacy IAM tools are designed for a full time work scenario. The sudden shift to WFH with most of the users working remotely opened doors to a number of attacks. According to a report by the FBI, there has been a jump in the number of reported cyber attacks by 3,000-4,000 per day since March 2020, almost a 400% increase. Moving forward, the IAM systems should be equipped enough to serve the new normal - a hybrid work scenario.
If you would like to know how ADManager Plus can help you with this, head here - Managing users in hybrid Active Directory.
The smartest way to deal with repetitive tasks is to automate them. Ensure you have a standard organization wide automated system for automating user and access provisioning with workflow approvals, and scheduled cleanup of stale accounts, etc. This would help prevent stale accounts from being exploited by potential attackers to gain access to the enterprise network or sensitive data.
ADManager Plus offers script-free automation option that is ideally suited for critical AD tasks that are repetitive and time - consuming. They are customizable, easy to use, integrates workflow approval with the automation, and more. You can also configure an automation for AD cleanup by following these steps!
Backing up your organization's AD data regularly will ensure you are able to get your organization back on track and continue all operations with the relevant level of access permissions and rights for every single user in your organization quickly, in the event of loss of AD data, which might be accidental, or a deliberate one to bring your operations to a halt.
ADManager Plus offers automated back up and restart free recovery, with options for granular and full restoration and restoring objects past their tombstone period. Know more.
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