Case Studies Details

Hale Consulting Solutions LLC was engaged on this effort to assist to:

Identify Privileged Access Accounts

Using a combination of Active Directory reporting and scripts to scan for accounts with local privilege access on Windows and Linux Operating systems, we were able to identify and associate the majority of accounts with some form of elevated access.

These accounts were then categorized and prioritized based upon the types of access (system, application or database) and criticality of access (tier 0 through 3 systems & applications).

Implement a Privileged Access Management (PAM) Solution

In parallel with the identification of privileged access accounts, we worked with the client to implement an enterprise PAM solution that was able to support the following requirements:

• Credential management for privileged accounts
• Credential vaulting and access control for privileged accounts
• Session establishment, management, monitoring and auditing for interactive privileged access

Integrate PAM into IT Operations

The final stage of the implementation of privileged access management was the development, training and enforcement of the policies and procedures to integrate PAM into IT Operations.

Policies and procedures had to be developed that met the requirements for least access and secure privileged access while be as lease impactful to daily operations as possible.

Additionally, all resources who utilized privileged accounts had to be trained on the procedures for using the PAM solution and the impact to their workload evaluated for revision to service level agreements and other impacted operational metrics.