Safeguarding Your Organization from Attacks Via Your Third-Party Vendors
Summary
Safeguarding Your Organization from Attacks Via Your Third-Party Vendors May 2019 by Morey Haber, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Security Officer at BeyondTrust Realizing that most large organizations today have sophisticated security defenses, bad actors are beginning to target third-party vendors, as a means to gain access to an enterprises’ network. IT admins, insiders, and third-party vendors need privileged access to perform their roles, but this shouldn’t mean ceding control of the IT environment to them. As a consequence, organizations are faced with the dilemma of having to provide the needed access while also guarding against malware and bad actors entering through third-party connections. You can accomplish this by leveraging a privileged access management solution to restrict unapproved protocols and direct approved sessions to a predefined route. By layering on these seven steps, you can exert better control over third-party access to your environment and make significant progress toward reducing cyber risk.