{"id":6275,"date":"2019-04-02T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:42:10","slug":"privileged-people-and-powerful-systems-balancing-trust-with-thycotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/privileged-people-and-powerful-systems-balancing-trust-with-thycotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Privileged people and powerful systems: balancing trust with Thycotic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A phone call comes through to the IT Helpdesk at 6:20 pm on a Friday \nafternoon. The sole remaining technician takes the call. It\u2019s a \nfrustrated manager in the Finance Department who can\u2019t access several \ndocuments on the company\u2019s shared file store (lack of \u2018sufficient \nprivileges\u2019), and her boss needs some figures before the weekend. The \nmanager and IT technician alike are already looking at the exit with \nsome longing, so to get the manager access, the tech elevates her \naccount\u2019s status so she gets the information she needs. Job done, and \nhappy weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That type of well-meaning action \u2013 or a variation on it \u2013 is repeated  in businesses across the globe every day. In terms of cybersecurity,  however, each is a potentially disastrous situation, and one that <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2WGRLe7\">Thycotic<\/a> is helping to solve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/techhq.com\/2019\/04\/privileged-people-and-powerful-systems-balancing-trust-with-thycotic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Privileged people and powerful systems: balancing trust with Thycotic (opens in a new tab)\">Privileged people and powerful systems: balancing trust with Thycotic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phone call comes through to the IT Helpdesk at 6:20 pm on a Friday afternoon. The sole remaining technician takes the call. It\u2019s a frustrated manager in the Finance Department who can\u2019t access several documents on the company\u2019s shared file store (lack of \u2018sufficient privileges\u2019), and her boss needs some figures before the weekend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,1906],"tags":[1806],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-password-management","category-privileged-password-management","tag-thycotic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1Dd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}