Cybersecurity
Privileged access management
Privileged accounts are the keys to everything. We help you find them, reduce how many exist, and put the remaining ones behind approval, time limits and logging.
The problem this service solves
Teams often buy a vault and then discover that nobody knows how many privileged accounts exist. Service accounts have passwords embedded in scripts. Shared admin credentials sit in spreadsheets. A tool cannot fix what has not been found.
We start with discovery, decide which accounts can be eliminated, which can become time-limited, and which truly need vaulting, then implement in phases starting with the highest risk.
What is in scope
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Discovery
Find privileged accounts across Active Directory, servers, databases, network devices and cloud platforms.
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Access model
Decide who needs which privileges, for how long, and with what approval.
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Vaulting and rotation
Credential vaulting, automatic rotation and removal of shared passwords.
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Just-in-time access
Time-bound elevation via PIM, PAM products or cloud-native services.
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Session management
Recording and monitoring for the highest-risk sessions.
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Secrets for applications
Replace embedded credentials with secret managers and workload identities.
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Break-glass
Emergency accounts with strict monitoring and testing.
How the work runs
Discover
Know what exists.
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Account discovery
Inventory privileged accounts and who uses them.
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Risk ranking
Identify the highest-risk accounts and systems.
Design
Decide the model.
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Access model and product fit
Define roles, approval and tooling, and compare products against needs.
Implement
Roll out in phases.
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Pilot
Onboard a small set of accounts and systems.
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Expand
Add platforms in order of risk.
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Operate
Document procedures, break-glass and review cycles.
What you receive
- Privileged account inventory
- Access model and policy
- Product fit analysis
- Implementation plan and configuration
- Break-glass procedure
- Operations runbooks
Tooling and technique
These are platforms we work with. We are not a reseller and do not receive commission.
Standards we map to
Mapping findings to a framework is not the same as certification against it.
Before we start
What we need from you
- Directory and platform access for discovery
- Executive sponsor
- Current PAM product or shortlist
What this service is not
- A product resale
- A one-day vaulting setup with no discovery
What changes afterwards
- Fewer standing privileges
- Service and admin credentials rotate automatically
- Privileged sessions are accountable
Questions people ask
Do we need a PAM product?
Not always. For small environments, Entra PIM, cloud-native access features and disciplined processes can cover a lot. We help you decide.
What do you do about service accounts?
Find them, assign owners, remove unused ones, restrict their rights, rotate secrets and move to managed identities where the platform supports it.
Related
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Identity governance
Joiner-mover-leaver processes, access reviews, role design and entitlement cleanup for workforce and application access.
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Active Directory security
Find attack paths to domain control: delegation, ACLs, Kerberos, certificate services, legacy protocols and tiering.
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Zero trust architecture
Plan and implement zero trust principles: strong identity, device health, segmentation, least privilege and continuous verification.
Need to understand your security exposure?
Speak with a security expert
Talk through your environment and goals. We reply to scope the work before anything is tested.
Speak with a security expertPlan an assessment
Answer a few questions and get a structured preliminary scope you can send us.
Use the plannerUnder attack right now?
Call the US office and tell us what you are seeing. Do not wait for a form reply.
Incident response