27.0 Discovering Privileged Accounts

An enterprise can have a system infrastructure with a wide range of operating systems such as UNIX, Linux, and Windows. There can be several privileged accounts in these systems that would have been created and left unattended for a long time. These privileged accounts that are not tracked are a risk to the enterprise. It is necessary to discover these privileged accounts and put it to best use or minimize them. Privileged Account Sniffer enables you to identify and analyze the privileged accounts in an enterprise.

Privileged Account Sniffer is an independent tool, which you can run on any computer to discover the privileged accounts in the configured target systems. The discovery results are generated as an easy-to-read excel report which contains the privileged accounts and the respective system details. These reports can be further filtered using the options available in the tool.

Using the reports generated by Privileged Account Sniffer you can:

  • Manage and utilize the existing privileged accounts effectively.

  • Identify the stale and expired accounts and eliminate them to mitigate the misuse of privileged accounts.

The report generated by Privileged Account Sniffer contains the system details and its credentials. Hence, it is recommended to store these files securely.