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Managing your IT system security requires a detailed understanding of the users involved and their levels of access to resources. User account management is all about managing which users can access specific folders and files, which requires providing specific access credentials to users who need who privileged access.
In today’s IT landscape, the process of account management revolves around two credentialing tools: Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (AD). Both services allow central IT management to establish access tiers, set credentials for systems access, and create or delete user accounts.
User account management also refers to the processes made possible through automated software. With only native Active Directory controls, AD account management can be a time-consuming process. However, automated tools can help take security a step further, with streamlined options for effective and efficient credentials management. To improve security and efficiency, automated user access management can help you modify user accounts using preconfigured templates and automatically record reports for successful IT security audits—in addition to other access management services. Account management software allows you to maximize the security of your user access structure while automating as many capabilities as possible.
Best practices in account management help IT teams achieve underlying goals, such as streamlining IT operations, enabling effective business operations, and increasing security strength across the organization. The following best practices are just a few you can use for more successful user accounts management:
Principle of Least Privilege
Under this principle, users are only given the privileges essential to their work and nothing more. For instance, an admin might give a user view-only access rather than full edit permissions. This best practice helps minimize risk if an account breach occurs.
Data Ownership
To manage user credentials successfully, it can be helpful to delegate as many responsibilities as possible to end users. Users can act as their own account managers for lower-level account management duties, including sharing access for their owned assets. Data owner delegation can improve client satisfaction while reducing the workload for IT admins—which is precisely why management delegation is a best practice for Active Directory account management.
Ongoing Monitoring and Adjustments
Another best practice in user accounts management is to consistently monitor your existing access credentials for unusual groups, such as inactive groups, empty groups, and users who have been over-privileged to multiple groups. As the central account manager, you have the power to adjust account configurations as necessary and remove any inefficient or unsecured configurations.
User access control is important to helping ensure system security. Without a smart approach to user account management, your system can easily become compromised by a user who has access to top-secret data, or by a cyberattacker who gets ahold of overly permissive access credentials.
Access control can help you optimize security by restricting sensitive parts of your system to privileged groups and by keeping a close eye on every user who can access the data. If you detect an unusual or over-privileged account, access managers can quickly delete the account or reassign it to a new access group.
In addition, user access control software is designed to allow you to operate Active Directory and Azure AD in a more effective way. Without access control management, AD software can quickly become difficult to manage. With AD tools, you can establish centralized controls for safe, reliable management of your system’s user accounts.
User accounts management tools are designed to help streamline your Active Directory account management and make your account management as safe as possible. Ultimately, the goal of account management software is to protect the integrity of your system without any downtime when monitoring and reconfiguring user accounts in AD by leveraging visualizations, controls, and automation.
With account management software, you can adjust access criteria from a centralized dashboard, complete with visualizations of your system setup. User access management tools can also help you more easily visualize the structure of an access group, quickly change usernames and create new users, and operate an easy-to-understand account management regimen without the need to sift through lines of script.
Another major service of account access management software is its ability to produce automated reports. Many industry compliance standards require detailed reports on your users and their access credentials. Account management software can provide templates for specific audit report formats, so you can automatically generate security reports to demonstrate to auditors your AD system is compliant with the specific industry’s standards.
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is built to provide a centralized access management tool for efficient user account management. When you invest in ARM, you can gain access to a highly intuitive, visual tool that can allow you to quickly view and adjust user credentials.
With grouping visualization, ARM enables you to view your groups in tree format, so you can understand at a glance the structure of privileged access within your groups. To identify users who may have over-privileged access to multiple groups, ARM can allow you to filter users with data collected from their average Kerberos token size, establishing a standard measure for how many groups each user belongs to.
To demonstrate compliance during industry security audits, ARM provides an automated approach to Active Directory and Azure AD reporting. The reporting software allows you to report account management data within your industry-specific format for regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, and SOX.
Managing your user access credentials is a crucial aspect of your work as an IT admin. Without a comprehensive access management protocol, your users may be able to access sensitive information far above their necessary level of operations. To prevent internal security breaches, and to improve communication efficiency, user access management tools like ARM can play a major role in your approach to systems administration.
Other SolarWinds IT security tools:
Other features:
Managing your IT system security requires a detailed understanding of the users involved and their levels of access to resources. User account management is all about managing which users can access specific folders and files, which requires providing specific access credentials to users who need who privileged access.
In today’s IT landscape, the process of account management revolves around two credentialing tools: Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (AD). Both services allow central IT management to establish access tiers, set credentials for systems access, and create or delete user accounts.
User account management also refers to the processes made possible through automated software. With only native Active Directory controls, AD account management can be a time-consuming process. However, automated tools can help take security a step further, with streamlined options for effective and efficient credentials management. To improve security and efficiency, automated user access management can help you modify user accounts using preconfigured templates and automatically record reports for successful IT security audits—in addition to other access management services. Account management software allows you to maximize the security of your user access structure while automating as many capabilities as possible.
Best practices in account management help IT teams achieve underlying goals, such as streamlining IT operations, enabling effective business operations, and increasing security strength across the organization. The following best practices are just a few you can use for more successful user accounts management:
Principle of Least Privilege
Under this principle, users are only given the privileges essential to their work and nothing more. For instance, an admin might give a user view-only access rather than full edit permissions. This best practice helps minimize risk if an account breach occurs.
Data Ownership
To manage user credentials successfully, it can be helpful to delegate as many responsibilities as possible to end users. Users can act as their own account managers for lower-level account management duties, including sharing access for their owned assets. Data owner delegation can improve client satisfaction while reducing the workload for IT admins—which is precisely why management delegation is a best practice for Active Directory account management.
Ongoing Monitoring and Adjustments
Another best practice in user accounts management is to consistently monitor your existing access credentials for unusual groups, such as inactive groups, empty groups, and users who have been over-privileged to multiple groups. As the central account manager, you have the power to adjust account configurations as necessary and remove any inefficient or unsecured configurations.
User access control is important to helping ensure system security. Without a smart approach to user account management, your system can easily become compromised by a user who has access to top-secret data, or by a cyberattacker who gets ahold of overly permissive access credentials.
Access control can help you optimize security by restricting sensitive parts of your system to privileged groups and by keeping a close eye on every user who can access the data. If you detect an unusual or over-privileged account, access managers can quickly delete the account or reassign it to a new access group.
In addition, user access control software is designed to allow you to operate Active Directory and Azure AD in a more effective way. Without access control management, AD software can quickly become difficult to manage. With AD tools, you can establish centralized controls for safe, reliable management of your system’s user accounts.
User accounts management tools are designed to help streamline your Active Directory account management and make your account management as safe as possible. Ultimately, the goal of account management software is to protect the integrity of your system without any downtime when monitoring and reconfiguring user accounts in AD by leveraging visualizations, controls, and automation.
With account management software, you can adjust access criteria from a centralized dashboard, complete with visualizations of your system setup. User access management tools can also help you more easily visualize the structure of an access group, quickly change usernames and create new users, and operate an easy-to-understand account management regimen without the need to sift through lines of script.
Another major service of account access management software is its ability to produce automated reports. Many industry compliance standards require detailed reports on your users and their access credentials. Account management software can provide templates for specific audit report formats, so you can automatically generate security reports to demonstrate to auditors your AD system is compliant with the specific industry’s standards.
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is built to provide a centralized access management tool for efficient user account management. When you invest in ARM, you can gain access to a highly intuitive, visual tool that can allow you to quickly view and adjust user credentials.
With grouping visualization, ARM enables you to view your groups in tree format, so you can understand at a glance the structure of privileged access within your groups. To identify users who may have over-privileged access to multiple groups, ARM can allow you to filter users with data collected from their average Kerberos token size, establishing a standard measure for how many groups each user belongs to.
To demonstrate compliance during industry security audits, ARM provides an automated approach to Active Directory and Azure AD reporting. The reporting software allows you to report account management data within your industry-specific format for regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, and SOX.
Managing your user access credentials is a crucial aspect of your work as an IT admin. Without a comprehensive access management protocol, your users may be able to access sensitive information far above their necessary level of operations. To prevent internal security breaches, and to improve communication efficiency, user access management tools like ARM can play a major role in your approach to systems administration.
Other SolarWinds IT security tools:
Other features:
Access Rights Manager
Monitor and audit Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, and file server permissions.
Quickly manage and provision user access.
Generate custom management and audit reports.
