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By Tyler Reese
Part 2 of 3 in our Rethinking Privileged Access series. Start with Part 1: The password was never the only problem. In Part 1, we drew the line between the vault-and-checkout model of legacy PAM and the session-and-Activities model of modern PAM with Netwrix Privilege Secure (NPS). One protects the password; the other eliminates the standing privilege behind it. That framing is a good starting point, but it understates the case. In Windows and Active Directory, the password is just the seed.
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By Dennis Chen
Service accounts, app integrations, and AI agents often have more access than any person, and they get reviewed last. That gives them one of the largest blast radiuses in the environment, meaning they can reach more if they're compromised. The Uber and Cloudflare breaches and the Salesloft Drift campaign against Salesforce customers show how attackers exploit these accounts. Check them for open, stale, orphaned, and privileged access, then cut access back to what they really use.
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By Netwrix Team
Unmanaged data stores let permissions drift while sensitive data accumulates unnoticed. They are repositories an organization doesn’t actively govern, leaving them without an owner, an access-review cadence, or a retention policy. Securing them means assigning ownership, correcting access, and maintaining continuous governance and visibility.
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By Netwrix Team
Most organizations have a removable media policy. Few enforce one, and that shortfall drives breach costs and compliance exposure. Closing it takes a default-deny baseline, an approved-device register, encryption on everything you allow, expiring exceptions, and audit evidence proving each clause works. Writing a removable media policy takes an afternoon, and most organizations already have one covering USB drives and other portable storage.
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By Dirk Schrader
AI agents are non-human identities. They hold credentials, carry permissions, and act on systems around the clock, usually with standing access nobody reviews. The Salesloft Drift breach reached more than 700 organizations through exactly that kind of over-scoped, non-expiring token, with no prompt injection involved. The controls already exist: inventory every agent, scope it to least privilege, expire its access, review it on a schedule, and detect when it's abused.
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By Dan Piazza
Insider risk is often framed as an external attacker problem, but a real blind spot sits closer to home: who inside your own security stack can open sensitive files they never needed to see. Classification tools that require broad scanning access often hand that same access to every admin who configures them, turning the tool meant to reduce exposure into another path to it. The people with the least oversight, your own admins, can end up with the most unchecked visibility into regulated data.
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By Tatiana Severina
Our 2026 Identity and Data Security Report put compromised identity ahead of misconfigured permissions as the leading route to unauthorized access, 41.8% against 33.9%. If identity is the way in, the controls around identity belong together, and that's the reasoning behind most of the consolidation we've seen over the past few years. But how is the work split up?
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By Netwrix Team
Operations require elevated access and organizations grant it on trust, so privileged user monitoring has to turn that trust into evidence. An authorization record shows only that the system permitted an action. Monitoring produces a reviewable account of which elevated rights each person used and when, which lets an auditor or investigator test activity without disrupting administration.
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By Valerie Callahan
Separation of duties, also called segregation of duties, is a control that splits a sensitive business process across more than one person so no single user can both execute and approve the same action. Organizations enforce it by mapping conflicting duties into a matrix, applying role-based access control and least privilege, requiring independent approval on high-risk transactions, and reviewing access on a set cadence.
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By Dave Miles
Most AD cleanup processes stop at the domain boundary, but hybrid audits don’t. Here’s what auditors actually check across Active Directory and Entra ID, and the gaps that trip up teams in their first review. Ask a few IT teams how they handle offboarding and you’ll hear the same answer: disable the account in Active Directory, close the ticket, and move on.
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By Netwrix
Your access, licensing, and policies have been running on a setting Microsoft is quietly retiring. If dynamic groups touch anything in your environment, this affects you, whether you've heard about it yet or not. Tyler Reese, VP Product Management, Identity at Netwrix, walks through what changes and what to do before it does. Aug 20, 11am ET.
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By Netwrix
One platform to discover, monitor, and remediate data and identity risks across your environment. More visibility. More control. Fast setup.
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By Netwrix
Security maturity isn't a single score. It's identity, access, data, and AI exposure, each moving at a different pace. Dirk Schrader, Field CISO (EMEA) and VP of Security Research at Netwrix, walks through what that actually means for how you assess your posture. Take the assessment maturity.netwrix.com.
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By Netwrix
Track critical files. Monitor configuration changes. Know exactly what changed, when, and why. Because visibility is the first step to control.
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By Netwrix
As access changes constantly and sensitive data moves faster than security teams can track, visibility matters more than ever. Helen R., Director of Engineering at Netwrix, explains why identity and data security can’t operate in silos anymore, especially in the age of AI. Have questions about identity governance, AI, or protecting sensitive data? Experts at Netwrix, including Helen, are helping organizations navigate these challenges every day.
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By Netwrix
What if one small configuration change exposed your entire environment and no one noticed? Most security incidents don’t start with malware. They start with misconfigurations.
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By Netwrix
Sensitive data sprawl, accumulated access, and unclear ownership continue to increase risk across modern environments. Farrah Gamboa, Senior Director of Product Management at Netwrix, explains why continuous visibility into sensitive data and access is critical to reducing exposure and strengthening security.
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By Netwrix
Sensitive data no longer lives in one place. It moves across file servers, SaaS apps, cloud platforms, and collaboration tools. That’s why discovering sensitive data once is not enough. In this video, Farrah Gamboa, Senior Director of Product Management at Netwrix, explains why data visibility must be continuous to keep data security manageable.
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By Netwrix
When technology gets in the way, people work around it. What does your identity experience enable? Michael Wetzel, CIO at Netwrix, explains why identity design matters more than ever.
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By Netwrix
PAWs reduce risk. Identity is the real control plane. If privileges live too long, architecture won’t save you. Data security starts with identity.
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By Netwrix
If you are just getting started with Office 365 or you want to master its administration, this guide is for you. The beginning features very easy tasks, including provisioning and de-provisioning of Office 365 user accounts. Then it offers guidelines on managing licenses and explains how to administer different applications using both the Office 365 admin console and PowerShell. Last, this Office 365 tutorial (.pdf) provides more advanced guidance, helping you set up a hybrid environment, secure your cloud-based email application with encryption and spam filtering, and more. After reading this guide, you'll also know how to troubleshoot Office 365 issues, ensuring a seamless experience for your business users.
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By Netwrix
Cybersecurity practitioners worldwide use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to strengthen their security program and improve their risk management and compliance processes. The framework is voluntary, but it offers proven best practices that are applicable to nearly any organisation. However, it can seem daunting at first because it includes so many components.
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By Netwrix
The simplest definition of Active Directory is that it is a directory service for Windows operating systems. But what does this actually mean? What is Active Directory used for? How can you manage it? Whether you are a new system administrator who wants to learn Active Directory basics, such as its structure, services, components and essential terminology, or a seasoned administrator looking to find new best practices and improve your skills even further, this eBook has something for you.
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By Netwrix
Safeguarding business-critical and regulated data like customer records, financial information and intellectual property is critical to the success of the entire organization. However, your goal should not be to build a fortress. Rather accept that your network will inevitably be breached from the outside and attacked from within, so you should build a layered defense strategy that helps you both minimize your attack surface and spot suspicious behavior in time to respond effectively.
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By Netwrix
If you are just getting started with Office 365 or you want to master its administration, this guide is for you. The beginning features very easy tasks, including provisioning and de-provisioning of Office 365 user accounts. Then it offers guidelines on managing licenses and explains how to administer different applications using both the Office 365 admin console and PowerShell. Last, this Office 365 tutorial (.pdf) provides more advanced guidance, helping you set up a hybrid environment, secure your cloud-based email application with encryption and spam filtering, and more. After reading this guide, you'll also know how to troubleshoot Office 365 issues, ensuring a seamless experience for your business users.
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By Netwrix
In today's digital world, the problem of data theft by departing employees goes far beyond stealing the names of a few customers or a product design sketch; it can mean the loss of gigabytes of critical corporate intelligence and legally protected information like customer cardholder data. Plus, ex-employees have even more avenues for using the data they steal - they can use it against their former employers, leak it to competitors, sell it to the highest bidder or simply publish it on the internet.
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By Netwrix
Although most IT pros are aware of the benefits that technology integrations promise, many of them are reluctant to take on integration projects. They know all too well that many vendor products simply aren't designed to be integrated with other systems; the lack of an application programming interface in particular is a huge red flag. Fortunately, there are vendors, such as ServiceNow and Netwrix, that enable organizations to reap the benefits of integration without having to invest lots of time and money.
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By Netwrix
It's hard to imagine an organization today that does not rely on file servers, SharePoint or Office 365 for storing data, including valuable and sensitive information such as intellectual property and personal data. This makes these systems particularly attractive targets for all sort of attackers, from external hackers to disgruntled employees. To protect data from both external and internal threats, businesses must regularly conduct thorough data security assessments as part of their broader cyber security assessments.
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By Netwrix
Compliance regulations are designed to provide a unified set of rules or guidelines to help IT organizations implement policies and measures that deliver the required levels of integrity, security, availability and accountability of data and operations. This white paper provides an overview of various types of IT compliance, explores their basic concepts and commonalities, and offers guidelines for implementation.
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