Provide your IT administrators, outsourced IT staff, and third-party vendors with centralized, privileged remote access to critical systems without the need for passwords or VPNs.
The current hybrid work model that allows users to access confidential enterprise data and sensitive servers from both remote locations as well as within the corporate perimeter has shaken up many organizations' overall security strategies. Sophisticated phishing scams and cybercrimes have also seen a rise since the adoption of remote work. Lax remote access controls and common work habits, like personal browsing on work devices, using unmanaged personal devices to access the corporate network, and sharing sensitive devices with family members, put critical enterprise systems at risk and sabotage an organization’s cybersecurity posture.
Most organizations use VPNs to enable privileged remote access to sensitive systems from outside the corporate network. Without proper granular controls in place, VPNs increase the vulnerability to breaches and allow too much lateral movement. Traditional access provisioning methods are no longer sufficient for growing and dynamic privileged remote access needs. Organizations must adopt safeguards to provide employees with secure access anytime, irrespective of their device and location.
Considering the business challenges posed by a remote workforce, it’s important to incorporate an enterprise-grade remote access tool and best practices to secure access to critical enterprise systems and infrastructure.
With a robust privileged remote access tool, IT teams can:
A robust privileged remote access tool provides centralized protection against access misuse, and complete visibility into what systems users are connecting to and what actions they perform during the entire remote session. By fortifying privileged remote access with a Zero Trust, least privilege-based solution, organizations can make intelligent, automated decisions while granting privileged remote access.
ManageEngine Access Manager Plus is a privileged remote access solution that enables secure access to critical IT systems by tunneling the connections through an encrypted channel. Through robust authentication, granular controls, and session management capabilities, Access Manager Plus minimizes deliberate and unintentional access misuse risks while also letting enterprises choose and design a utilitarian privileged remote access strategy.
With Access Manager Plus, IT admins can:
Mandate multi-factor authentication to authenticate users for secure remote access, and impose access restrictions and privilege controls on employees and third-party vendors to prevent malicious users from gaining entry into the network.
Implement an access control workflow and mandate users to follow a request-approve-release workflow whenever they need access to a resource, and know who or what is requesting access, why, and from where.
Embrace least privilege access policies to ensure that employees and third parties are only granted minimum, just-in-time access required to perform their tasks and cut off access to critical resources once the specified time expires.
Establish a set of policies that allow admins to remotely monitor privileged sessions, confine remote users to the authorized activity, and terminate suspicious sessions instantly.
Require all remote connections to be brokered through an encrypted access pathway and let authorized users securely access privileged accounts through one-click connections without the need for supplying passwords.
Have a comprehensive auditing system in place that logs every single privileged action during a privileged remote session, and readily answer questions during investigative audits.