Sound Familiar?
Why Admin Access Is Your Biggest Exposure
The domain admin password is in a spreadsheet, shared by four engineers and a former contractor. It hasn’t changed in two years. Privileged access management exists for this exact situation, because one stolen admin account can switch off almost every defense you have.
Why Now
When Privileged Access Becomes the Priority
An admin leaves on bad terms They knew several shared passwords. Now someone has to find and change every one of them, quickly.
An audit asks who changed a critical setting The log shows the shared admin account. Nobody can say which person used it.
An insurer asks about privileged access controls The renewal questionnaire asks how admin accounts are protected. The truthful answer is not well enough.
What Changes
What’s Different Afterwards
Where to Start
How We’d Secure Privileged Access
Start with the free review
We find every admin and service account, see how it’s used and rank the risks each one carries.
What you’ll have: A full list of privileged accounts and risks
Remove standing rights
We help move admins to time-limited access and personal accounts, starting with the most powerful roles.
What you’ll have: Fewer always-on admin accounts
Vault and watch the rest
We help put credentials in a vault and record sessions on critical systems.
What you’ll have: Admin activity you can trace and trust
Want the full method? See Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Your First Step
Start with a Free Privileged Access Review
We’ll find your privileged accounts, see how they’re used and show you where admin access is most exposed. You get a ranked plan to tighten it, and it’s yours to keep.
Book a Privileged Access Review
- We walk you through the findings on a call.
- Then it’s your decision, with no obligation to go further.
Scope
- Admin, service and emergency accounts
- Critical systems and how admins reach them
You Provide
- Admin read access to identity systems
- A list of critical systems
- Time with your infrastructure lead
You Receive
- All privileged accounts found and ranked
- Shared and standing access to remove
- A phased plan for tighter control
Cost and Timing
- Free, with a fixed scope
- Timing depends on your estate, so talk to us
Try This First
Quick Privileged Access Management Checks
Admin access is easier to assess than most people expect. Start with these five checks.
Count your global or domain administrators
List everyone with top-level admin rights. In most organizations, a handful is plenty.
Find shared admin accounts
Look for admin logins used by more than one person. Each one is a traceability gap.
Check whether Entra PIM is available to you
Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management offers time-limited admin roles, but some licenses include it without it being switched on.
Search for passwords in scripts
Ask engineers where service account passwords are kept. Files and spreadsheets are common answers.
Confirm MFA on every admin account
Admin accounts without multi-factor authentication should be the first thing you fix.
Why Signisys
Why Take Our Advice on This
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens after the review?
We walk you through what we found on a call. You can act on it with your own team, or ask us to help with the bigger changes. Either way, it’s your decision and there’s no obligation.
Won’t time-limited access slow our engineers down?
Slightly, at first. Requesting access takes seconds once it’s set up, and most teams adjust within a few weeks. The trade is worth it, because a stolen admin account becomes far less dangerous.
Do we need a dedicated privileged access management product?
It depends on how many systems and admins you have. Some organizations manage well with built-in features, while larger or more complex estates benefit from a dedicated vault. The review shows which fits you.
What about emergency access if the identity system is down?
Keep a small number of emergency accounts, stored securely, protected with strong authentication and monitored. They’re used only when normal access fails, and every use is reviewed afterwards by someone other than the user.
Does this cover service accounts used by applications?
Yes. Service accounts often have broad rights and passwords that never change. Good privileged access management finds them, reduces their rights to what each application needs and stores their credentials safely in a vault.
Where should we start if everything feels risky?
With the most powerful accounts: global and domain administrators. Remove shared logins, add multi-factor authentication and cut the number of people with that level of access. Then work outward to other admin roles.
Take Control of Admin Access
A free review finds every privileged account and shows how to reduce the risk each one carries.
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Business Outcome
Strengthen Cybersecurity and Reduce Business Risk
Solution
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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