Companies are aware of the value of all types of data to optimize their processes and benefit their business. Customers, employees, and suppliers are leaving a data trail necessary to know how to store, process, and protect to obtain accurate information to discover new business opportunities, optimize operations, and save costs, making investments profitable.

The channels of access to this data are increasing. It is no longer only necessary to pay attention to the endpoint devices that people use (mobile phones, tablets, laptops, PCs) and the machines themselves interacting with each other through automated processes and the IoT.

What Is Privileged Access Management?

Implementing solutions for identity and access management makes it difficult for cyberattacks to succeed. The privileged access strategy defines the capabilities of users, whether human or not when entering corporate IT applications and infrastructure. The theft of privileged credentials is the main objective of practically 100% of today’s most advanced cyberattacks. If they succeed, they obtain the key to virtually ‘walk’ through the systems they want.

In companies, there are multiple accounts with privileges: IT administrator accounts to configure systems and applications; network domain management accounts from which to administer systems and servers; user accounts to access their work programs; developer accounts. The challenge is how to control and monitor all of them at the same time to protect them from increasingly sophisticated threats. This is where PAM comes in.

What Does PAM Mean?

PAM (Privileged Access Management) is a solution for managing privileged access. Allows you to provide highly delimited privileges for the user profiles that you define. With PAM management, companies can centralize access management by monitoring them to protect critical IT resources, avoid security vulnerabilities, and comply with GDPR and sector-specific regulations.

PAM’s control over accesses and privileged identities allows proactively detecting a cyber threat and solving the identified incident. By granting delimited access levels to the work tasks of each profile in the case of humans or the implementation of specific processes in the case of machines, it is easy to identify abuses of privileges automatically.

The management of PAM privileged access is a key piece within the cybersecurity strategy of companies, which includes the IAM solutions and the MDM (Mobile Device Management).

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We Have Increased Our Dependence On Technology

The reported cases of coronavirus in the world cover more than 150 countries and the obligation of confinement lead individuals and companies to have a greater dependence on communications by digital means. The Internet has become almost the only channel for interaction and as a means of work.
We have increased our dependence on technology, companies, both in the private and public sectors, continue their work to encourage teleworking, and communications between people are practically reduced to calls and videoconferences, chats, and messages on social networks. Similarly, a good part of the services and information offered by different government organizations are accessible by online means.
In this context, as novel as it is unusual, an attack by cybercriminals that would limit users and companies from accessing their devices, their data, or simply the Internet, would be devastating because it would lead to a stoppage of operations.
And putting ourselves in the worst-case scenario, such an attack could cause infrastructure failures that can affect even cities, paralyzing, for example, the function of health care systems or public services in general.

Threats That Exploit Fear And Uncertainty

Cybercriminals seek human recklessness to enter systems. When a crisis is prolonged excessively, as it is currently happening, people often make mistakes that they would not have made under normal circumstances.
It is estimated that 98% of attacks are due to the use of social engineering methods, and the creativity of cyber criminals increases day by day to access passwords and personal or special interest data. To do this, current topics are used to tempt users and make them make mistakes when clicking on a link or opening an attached message in an email.
We have lived the cases of phishing and malware distribution impersonating the Chinese Ministry of Health or the impersonation campaign to the World Health Organization (WHO) in which a donation was requested to be made in the form of Bitcoins, to contribute to the investigation of a cure against COVID-19.
The extortion cases even affect hospitals, with the record of an attack on a hospital in the Czech Republic, as well as messages addressed to elderly people with threats of contagion if a certain amount of money is not transferred.
And scams via the web proliferate over the purchase of virus test kits, fraudulent pages aimed at collecting donations for research into a vaccine, or portals that offer and sell all kinds of products in the Darknet markets.

Cybersecurity Recklessness Soars

On the other hand, it is not a conscious thing, but being online for more time leads us to behave in a more risky way. For example, it is not uncommon to search for free access to undesirable web pages or to search for software without official licensing, thus opening a door to possible attacks and the installation of malware.
Let’s not forget that there can also be hidden risks in the usual tasks related to credit cards or in the installation of specialized applications.
Normally it is dangerous to click on unreliable links, but during the pandemic, this action can be destructive and have a very high economic cost for whoever performs it or for the organization in which they work.

Awareness And Caution, The Best Safety Tips

• COVID-19 has forced us to change our daily habits and routines, but it also requires a change in our online behavior:
• In the current situation, wherein many cases employee-owned domestic devices are used to remotely access company networks, it is particularly relevant that our homes are cybersecurity.
• You have to be especially careful to whom we give your personal information. It is convenient to take our time to check what we are reading, what they ask us, and where we are going to access it.
• Last but not least, the best way to act is to look at everything with a magnifying glass and trust only those companies, people, or institutions with credible creditworthiness, as well as national or local government agencies.
• To help protect everyone, the Basque Cybersecurity Center has created a specific section on the related risks and threats related to the coronavirus and an awareness kit with tips, specific infographics, and a series of documents that help prevent exposure to cyber threats.

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