The combat strategy
The IT divisions of manufacturing organizations should follow a multi-pronged strategy to combat ransomware and cyberattacks. It starts with adopting basic security practices such as vulnerability monitoring and timely patching, safeguarding identities, enforcing MFA at all levels, tightening internal controls, and monitoring all access and activities.
How does Securden help manufacturing organizations?
With a suite of solutions for identity management, remote privileged access management, and endpoint privilege management, Securden helps the IT divisions of manufacturing organizations reduce the attack surface and implement internal controls and effective monitoring.
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Consolidate, organize and manage identities, credentials
With automation and industry 4.0 at full throttle, the sheer number of identities, credentials, digital certificates, and keys to manage to establish smooth workflows becomes a challenge. The distributed nature of manufacturing assets adds to further complexity. Securden helps consolidate all types of identities in a central vault and establishing controls on who can access what.
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Enforce and automate password management best practices
Assets with default or weak passwords, and reused/recycled passwords that remain unchanged for a prolonged time are all vulnerable to thefts and attacks. Usage of strong, unique passwords, locking them down in an encrypted vault and rotating frequently is a must. Not just passwords but also SSH keys, Devops secrets, certificates and other identities spread across the organization need to be managed well. Securden helps you in automating password security best practices.
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Secure and automate RPA / Machine-to-Machine communication
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is sweeping the manufacturing industry. Bots deliver unprecedented precision and scalability in executing mundane tasks, thus boosting productivity. However, bots require privileged access for machine-to-machine communication and carry out various operations. Hard coding privileged credentials in robotic software applications is an open invitation to hackers. Securden helps in highly secure, automated, programmatic access of credentials for such non-human communication through a rich set of APIs.
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Controlled and monitored remote access to third-parties
The maintenance or administration of various assets requires technicians, partners and third-party experts to access and log in to the systems remotely. Sharing administrative credentials and granting standing privileges to third parties are common in many organizations. Securden helps eliminate all security risks in granting access to third-parties. You can achieve controlled and monitored remote access to third parties and track all their activities.
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Just-in-time and just-enough access
When internal staff and external contractors need privileged access to critical IT assets, Securden helps ensure just-in-time access with just-enough privileges.
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Track all activities with audit trails and session recordings
Tracking all activities related to privileged access across the organization, including field units, is critical to prevent cyberattacks. Securden captures every single activity as audit trails, offers actionable reports and sends real-time alerts besides recording entire privileged sessions that could be played back wherever required.
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Manage privileges on workstations, control application usage
Enduser machines are often the weakest link in enterprise security. When local admin privileges are granted, users tend to deploy unapproved software or click random links inviting malware. Eliminating local admin rights, on the other hand, results in productivity issues. Securden Unified PAM helps eliminate local admin privileges on workstations and establish policy-based controls on applications/processes usage.
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Demonstrate compliance
Manufacturing organizations are required not just to follow security standards but also to demonstrate compliance with various industry/international regulations. Most regulations lay stress on privileged access management. Securden helps you generate audit-ready reports on privileged access scenario.
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