For protection and privacy reasons, we will not be disclosing the clients name. However, please note that this is a real case scenario
Company Z relied heavily on shared administrator accounts across servers, databases, and network devices. This created dangerous blind spots:
Risk of credential leakage or insider abuse.
Manual and incomplete privileged activity audits.
Compliance gaps flagged during reviews.
To strengthen access control, the bank sought a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution that enforced least privilege and improved audit readiness.
Key risks identified included:
Shared admin accounts with static password.
No central vault or automated password rotation.
No accountability - difficult to trace actions back to individual.
Audit gaps in access governance.
Ethnos Cyber guided Company Z through a structure PAM deployment with Safeguard:
Threat modelling workshops to identify high-risk entry points.
A full audit across servers, databases, and network devices.
Centralized vaulting andautomated rotation of privileged credentials.
Session management to monitor and record privileged activity.
Role-based access controls aligned with goverance standards.
Training workshops for IT/security teams to ensure long-term adoption.
Central vault & auto-rotation.
Recording & monitoring.
Detects abnormal user behavior.
Enforcing least privilege
Compliance-ready visibility.
Eliminated shared account risks across 500+ privileged users.
Reduced password reset cycle time from weeks to minutes. weeks to minutes.
Achieved full traceability of privileged actions.
Improved compliance posture for CBN, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 audits.
A security-first culture established across the workforce.
Recommendations/Next Steps
Extend PAM coverage to cloud environments (Azure).
Automate ticketing workflows for session approvals.
Quarterly privileged access reviews.
Expand to DevOps secrets and service accounts.
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“Before Safeguard, privileged access was a major blind spot. Now, we have visibility, control, and compliance confidence that was impossible with shared admin accounts.”