Privileged IT access: monitoring guide
There are privileged IT accesses in every company. Therefore, the question arises: How do you protect sensitive company data from errors or employee manipulation?
One of IT's biggest challenges is to prevent privileged users from doing something in systems that they are not allowed to do. The activities of website visitors are subject to restrictions, to be sure. However, the same is not true for employees and certainly not for company system administrators. The freedom of users grows with their access rights: The higher their rights in IT systems, the greater the risks they pose to the company.
System administrators are the most powerful users in the IT environment. They run the entire IT infrastructure with sensitive data and critical business systems. For those new to the position of CIO, monitoring staff may be a headache. How do you protect sensitive corporate data from mistakes or employee tampering?
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