Privileged Access Analytics: Monitoring Your Most Dangerous Accounts
Privileged accounts control critical systems, access sensitive data, and make configuration changes affecting security posture. These powerful accounts require intensive monitoring because compromised privileged access enables attackers to accomplish objectives that regular account compromises can't achieve. Traditional monitoring focuses on failed login attempts and unusual access times. However, sophisticated attacks using compromised privileged credentials operate during normal business hours, access expected systems, and perform activities that appear legitimate without behavioural context. Why Privileged Access Needs Special Monitoring Privileged accounts rarely generate suspicious alerts when compromised. Attackers using stolen administrator credentials perform activities that ...










