4 posts tagged with "security"

A recording you cannot trust is not evidence. It may show activity, but it cannot answer the harder questions: was this the recording from this session, has it changed, who has viewed it, and did its handling follow the rules? That is why protecting a recording is more than placing a file in storage. It is an engineering chain that begins at controlled capture and continues through encryption, integrity verification, access decisions, retention, and audit history. This article explains how VaultPAM builds that chain so a recording can be used as accountable evidence rather than treated as an unverified artifact.

Session recording exists to answer the questions that matter after privileged access: who connected, what did they reach, when did it happen, and what happened during the session? That is accountability and investigation, not surveillance. When an incident, access review, or audit raises a question, a login event alone is rarely enough. The organization needs a record it can locate, inspect, and connect to the decision that allowed the access.

Most enterprise security incidents that involve privileged access share a common root cause: the compromised account had access it did not need, to systems it had not touched in weeks, with credentials that had been valid for months. The attacker did not escalate privileges — the privileges were already there, standing, waiting. This is the standing privilege problem, and it is the specific gap that just-in-time access is designed to close.

RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) appears in the initial access phase of nearly every major ransomware incident. Exposed port 3389, weak credentials, no MFA — attackers know the playbook. Your next penetration test will find these issues if you have not already addressed them. This checklist tells you exactly what to fix and how.