Critical Questions To Ask Your Privileged Identity Management Solution Provider

Technology management professionals with administrator privileges have the responsibility to ensure that their critical business technology is secure, available, and achieving performance expectations. However, those same privileges enable a tech pro with malicious intent to wreak havoc in their technology ecosystem and it also makes administrator credentials a prized target of cybercriminals. Thus, privileged identity management (PIM) solutions have long been an important security control for security and risk (S&R) leaders. As businesses continue to adopt digital technology, S&R leaders see their importance increasing but they also have new PIM requirements. They expect PIM solutions to help: 1) mitigate security risk in cloud environments; 2) reduce insider threats; 3) identify and mitigate unusual behaviors of privileged users; and 4) expand the scope of traditional identity and access management (IAM) from business applications to privileged access. This report explains these new PIM demands and requirements and helps S&R leaders ask the right questions from their PIM vendors.