What is privileged account management, and why does it matter?

Privileged account management is the discipline of controlling, monitoring, and auditing accounts with elevated access, such as system administrators, IT staff, executives, and service accounts with broad permissions. These accounts are high-value targets because compromising one can give an attacker deep, broad access to your environment. Best practices include limiting the number of privileged accounts, requiring MFA for all privileged logins, logging all privileged activity and using separate credentials for administrative tasks. G6 implements and manages these controls as part of our user security program.