Security News > 2020 > October > Preventing cybersecurity’s perfect storm

Modern cybersecurity professionals understand the advantage of controls like zero standing privilege, which authorizes no one and requires that each user request access and evaluation before granting privileged access.

Implementing the design concept of zero standing privilege is crucial to hardening against privilege escalation attacks, as it removes the administrator's vast amounts of standing power and access.

Reliable user behavior analytics, combined with risk-based privileged access management and machine learning supported log analysis, offers organizations better contextual identity information.

Understanding how their privileged access is leveraged and identifying access misuse before it takes root is vital to preventing a breach.

UEBA systems track all behavior linked back to an entity and identify anomalous behaviors such as spikes in access requests, requesting access to data that would typically not be allowed for that user's roles, or systematically accessing numerous items.

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