Vendor users come and go and the privileges a vendor user needs one week may not be needed the next. Trying to manage the carousel of transient vendor users can make IT teams’ heads spin and leave holes in your network security.
Don’t give your vendors network credentials or try to manage them. Only give them limited, non-network access to what they need to get their job done. Alone, PAM isn’t the right choice to manage vendors, but when it teams up with secure remote access designed specifically for vendor users, it offers a robust solution and efficient platform.
Secure Remote Access Connection Checklist
Are you confident that your company’s remote access connection’s built to provide secure remote access? Use this checklist to determine if your remote access connection is safe enough to protect your business from a third-party data breach.
Allows access for vendors without providing network credentials
No
Yes
Yes
Provides multi-factor authentication of vendor users without another tool to be implemented with your vendor users
No
Yes
Yes
Automates the vendor and vendor user management process
No
Yes
Yes
Validates employment status of vendor users
No
Yes
Yes
Audits and records privileged sessions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Provides granular access controls and scheduling
Yes
Yes
Yes
Manages, rotates and injects privileged credentials securely
Yes
Limited
Yes
Provides granular command filtering and canned scripts/commands
Yes
No
Yes
Best Practices When Combining PAM & Secure Remote Access
Whether you already have a PAM solution and are looking to provide additional security and efficiency around your vendor management program, or are simply tired of using insecure and burdensome access methods such as desktop sharing or VPN, add secure remote access and PAM together to make your privileged vendor access struggle a problem of the past.