Is your company ready for a scenario where a trusted vendor becomes your biggest threat? Unfortunately, your trusted business partner could unintentio

Unfortunately, your trusted business partner could unintentionally expose your company to enormous danger. Today, we’ll talk about managing third-party collaboration to avoid a disaster that could, at worst, lead to the closure of your business.

In today’s newsletter, we will discuss what PAM is and how it can protect your company from third-party risks.

What is PAM?

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a system for managing privileged access that helps organizations secure, control, and monitor access to critical systems and data. Privileged access means that a user has elevated permissions allowing them to perform administrative operations and system configurations. In the context of third-party collaboration, PAM is a crucial tool for managing external vendors' access to internal company resources.

Key functions of PAM:

• Access Control: Restricts access to only those resources necessary for performing specific tasks.
• Activity Monitoring: Logs and analyzes the actions of privileged users to prevent misuse.
• Security and Compliance: Helps meet legal and industry standards for data security.
• Session Management: Tracks and controls the sessions of privileged users in real time.

How does PAM work?

Imagine managing a large company with numerous external vendors and partners. Each of these partners needs access to your systems to perform their tasks. PAM allows you to manage this access securely and controlled.

Real-life example:

The easiest way to explain this is with an example. Imagine you live in a gated community. You order a pizza, and the delivery person, Adam, needs to enter the community to deliver your order. You let him in through the gate, but instead of going directly to the specified address, Adam decides to explore the community, checking which doors are open and what interesting things he can find. This is exactly like an uncontrolled third party who has access to your systems without proper safeguards.

PAM acts like a security guard in the community. Such a system supervises the delivery person from the moment he enters, leads him directly to the specified address, and then escorts him out, closing the gate behind him. Thanks to PAM, third parties have access only to the systems and resources necessary to perform their tasks, and their activity is monitored to prevent any misuse.

Fudo Enterprise - next-generation intelligent PAM system

Fudo Enterprise is an intelligent PAM system that not only monitors and controls access but also uses advanced AI technologies to profile user activity. This way, Adam the "pizza delivery guy" does not move around the community alone. From the very gate, he is observed and led to the right place by one of the guards who also uses advanced AI models.

How does AI in Fudo Enterprise work?

Imagine the AI system working like a set of intelligent cameras monitoring Adam’s movements from the very entrance. These cameras analyze his walking style, gestures, facial features, creating a unique profile. If the next day, instead of Adam, his friend Tomek tries to impersonate him, wearing Adam’s clothes, glasses, and cap, AI will immediately detect the anomaly and not let the impostor into the community. Additionally, it will alert the guard about the attempted fraud.

AI profiling in Fudo Enterprise includes:

• Mouse Biometric Model: AI analyzes mouse movements and clicks, extracting over 700 unique features related to device usage.
• Keyboard Biometric Model: AI analyzes typing dynamics on the keyboard, extracting over 100 unique features.
• Semantic-Behavioral Model for SSH Protocol: AI analyzes keyboard input, identifying individual user preferences. The model learns from training data, recognizing unique behavior patterns of users and adapting to them.

Quick and seamless implementation

Fudo Enterprise offers quick and seamless implementation and immediate effect – installation and deployment take 24 hours. It is an agentless system, which means it does not require additional software installation on endpoint devices, significantly simplifying deployment in high-security environments.

User-friendly and convenient

The system is intuitive and convenient for the user, does not require changes in team work habits, which is an additional advantage, but at the same time relieves security administrators, allowing for the optimization of the team’s work and redirecting part of the time and energy to more important and interesting projects from a business development perspective.

Monitoring user efficiency

Fudo Enterprise supports administrators in monitoring user efficiency, allowing for productivity analysis and ensuring return on investment (ROI). Session analysis details user activity over a given period, identifying low-activity sessions and helping to take appropriate actions.

Comprehensive protection

In the face of increasing third-party threats, Fudo Enterprise offers comprehensive protection, combining user-friendliness with advanced security management tools. In our future articles, we will discuss how to implement Fudo Enterprise and why it is one of the best solutions on the market.

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