Privileged Account Discovery
Automatically detect, onboard, and centralize privileged accounts.
Unmanaged privileged accounts that fly under your radar pose a greater risk than active ones for many reasons
Lack of monitoring
As undiscovered accounts are not monitored, there’s a risk that malicious actors can exploit them without being detected.
Vulnerable credentials
The credentials of unmanaged privileged accounts may be weak, reused, or stored insecurely, making those accounts easy targets for attackers.
No accountability
Overlooked privileged accounts often lack attribution, making it hard to tie specific actions back to a user.
Legal risks
Unmanaged accounts may fall outside the scope of the security measures required by GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS, which may lead to legal penalties and fines.
How account discovery works
Syteca’s account discovery feature can bring all privileged accounts within your IT environment under your control
Step 1
Set up
Сreate discovery rules
Step 2
Scan
Syteca scans your network
Step 3
Review
View a list of all privileged accounts discovered
Step 4
Onboard
Onboard discovered accounts with a single click
Step 5
Control
Set up scheduled scanning and get email notifications
Discover and secure every privileged account
Minimize the risks associated with unmanaged privileges
while maximizing operational efficiency.
Set up automatic scanning of your network for privileged accounts.
Customize discovery rules to scan multiple domains, organizational units, or user groups on a flexible schedule.
View all scan results in one place. See the current statuses of all privileged accounts at a glance.
Onboard each revealed account separately or use the bulk onboarding option to set up multiple accounts at once.
Choose between auto-generated or manual passwords for discovered accounts, with the possibility to set up automatic password rotation.
Receive email notifications about newly detected privileged accounts after each scan.
Manage who can access your account discovery data. Track all AD activities with comprehensive audit logs.
Boost security, oversight, and compliance efforts with Syteca account discovery
Uncover and onboard all privileged accounts within your cybersecurity perimeter. Eliminate security blind spots, strengthen your defenses against unauthorized access, and meet industry regulations like GDPR and HIPAA with ease.
Cut down on manual tasks with automated account discovery and management. Relieve your IT team of repetitive administrative work, allowing them to focus on strategic tasks that drive your business forward — all while reducing operational costs.
Achieve 360-degree visibility of all privileged accounts throughout your entire infrastructure. With a centralized view of privileged accounts, you can ensure accountability and maintain complete control over all access points within your network.
Stop cyber threats by automatically identifying and managing forgotten or hidden accounts. Secure all potential entry points, minimize your attack surface, and reduce the risk of data breaches and other incidents.
Strengthen your overall access management by continuously identifying accounts with excessive privileges. Adjust permissions according to users’ roles and minimize the risk of privilege abuse.
Scale confidently while minimizing vulnerabilities and ensuring complete oversight of all critical accounts. Manage privileged access rights across domains, organizational units, or user groups as your organization grows.
Account discovery powers Syteca PAM
Account discovery complements the rest of Syteca’s advanced PAM capabilities.
Syteca PAM empowers you with robust, enterprise-grade features for full control over privileged accounts.
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FAQ
A privileged account is any account with elevated permissions to access the organization’s systems, data, and administrative functions that are usually inaccessible to standard users. Examples of privileged accounts include administrator, root, and service accounts.
Account discovery is the process of identifying all user accounts within an organization’s IT environment and including them in the centralized account management pool. Privileged account discovery solutions are focused specifically on finding and managing all accounts with elevated access.
Privileged accounts are often prime targets for cyberattacks due to their elevated access permissions. If any of these accounts fly under your radar, you may not respond to the malicious activity conducted under these accounts quickly enough. This may eventually lead to data breaches, service disruptions, and loss of sensitive information.
Automated privileged account discovery helps organizations perform regular audits to identify all privileged accounts on schedule, thus, improving accuracy and reducing your IT admin’s workload. Syteca’s account discovery feature continuously scans your network for privileged accounts, instantly detecting and notifying you about any new accounts with elevated access.
We recommend you regularly discover privileged accounts to keep pace with changes in your personnel, permissions, and IT infrastructure. You may run monthly, weekly, or even daily privileged account discovery scans depending on the risk level and updates of your access management processes.
Absolutely. By providing a clear record of all privileged accounts, a privileged account discovery tool helps organizations meet regulatory requirements and pass audits successfully. For example, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and ISO 27001 require organizations to identify and document all privileged accounts within their environments.
By combining the account discovery feature with powerful PAM and UAM functionality, Syteca can help you meet the requirements of these and other critical cybersecurity standards, laws, and regulations.