The traditional process of aggregating data to understand privileged access is often labor-intensive, complicated, time-consuming, and expensive, frequently yielding questionable results. NorthStar Privilege Tracking automates this by leveraging data that already exists within an organization's deployed tools and applications. It provides comprehensive visibility into all user privileges and entitlements across various business and IT platforms, enabling organizations to effectively identify risks, spot issues, and make informed decisions to improve their overall security posture. Unlike cumbersome manual methods, NorthStar offers continuous monitoring through automated processes that refresh data, allowing for real-time tracking of who has access to what, and how those privileges change over time. This capability is crucial for validating that remediation actions are taking place in a timely manner and for identifying any new privileges that appear in the environment. NorthStar stands out in the market by providing unified reporting across all levels of access in a single repository. Whether it's server privilege, file share access, application entitlements, or even physical badge access to a facility, all privileges—both physical and virtual—can be tracked and reported on from a single pane of glass. When used in conjunction with the Asset Tracking module, it provides valuable information on each resource and can automatically generate new exposure metrics, such as the number of elevated accounts on a system or the existence of an account without corresponding approval. While Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions typically define what *should* be in place, NorthStar focuses on what is *truly* in place, making it a perfect complement to existing IAM systems. By tracking people, their associated user accounts, where those accounts have privileged access, and what they are associated with in near real-time, NorthStar's reporting and visualizations deliver actionable information. This empowers organizations to efficiently manage the complexities of user access, mitigate insider threats, and meet compliance requirements. Furthermore, its MASTER record feature consolidates a person's Login IDs, Groups, and Entitlements from multiple sources into a single view, significantly easing the burden of User Access Reviews.

Features & Benefits

• Automated Privilege Aggregation & Analysis
  • Automates the complex process of aggregating and analyzing privileges across diverse business and IT platforms by leveraging existing data.
• Continuous Privilege Monitoring
  • Provides automated data refresh and tracking of privilege changes over time, enabling validation of remediation and identification of new privileges.
• Unified Reporting & Single Pane of Glass
  • Offers unique unified reporting across all levels of access, including server, file share, application, and physical access, consolidated into a single repository.
• IAM Complement & Actionable Insights
  • Complements existing Identity and Access Management solutions by focusing on actual access, delivering near real-time actionable information for user access management, insider threat mitigation, and compliance.
• Consolidated Master Records
  • Aggregates Login IDs, Groups, and Entitlements from multiple sources into a single, comprehensive MASTER record view for each person, simplifying User Access Reviews.