Privileged Account Discovery
Work through this checklist to discover and catalog privileged accounts across your estate. Track risk, notes, and PAM coverage — then export a prioritized onboarding plan.
Summary
0
Discovered (of 20 items)
0
Marked not applicable
0
Unmanaged privileged (gap)
20
Not yet classified
Risk breakdown (discovered items only)
Priority onboarding order
Unmanaged discovered accounts, highest risk first. Onboard these into your PAM program first.
Export
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Frequently Asked Questions
Privileged account discovery and how OnePAM helps
What is privileged account discovery?
Privileged account discovery is the process of systematically identifying accounts that can elevate access, change critical configuration, or bypass normal security controls — across servers, directories, cloud consoles, databases, network gear, and applications. It produces an inventory you can use for risk scoring, access reviews, and PAM onboarding rather than relying on informal knowledge or outdated spreadsheets.
Why do organizations need to discover privileged accounts?
Unknown or shared privileged credentials are a primary path for attackers and insider risk. Discovery reduces blind spots: you cannot vault, rotate, monitor, or attest to accounts you do not know exist. It also supports compliance evidence (who has admin rights, where keys live, which service accounts run jobs) and helps prioritize remediation when time and budget are limited.
What types of accounts are considered privileged?
Common examples include operating-system root and sudo-capable users, domain and enterprise administrators in Active Directory, cloud organization and subscription owners, database superusers and application connection strings with elevated rights, network device administrators, CI/CD and deployment credentials, API keys with admin scopes, and any non-personal account that can alter security posture or access sensitive data at scale.
How often should privileged account discovery be performed?
Run a full discovery at least annually and after major changes (mergers, cloud migrations, new AD trusts, large vendor onboarding). Supplement with continuous controls: automated scans, access reviews, and session telemetry from your PAM platform so new privileged accounts that appear between exercises are not invisible for months.
How does OnePAM help with privileged account management?
OnePAM centralizes privileged access behind identity-aware proxies with SSO and MFA, vaults and rotates credentials where appropriate, enforces least-privilege and RBAC, and records sessions across protocols like SSH, RDP, databases, and web consoles. That turns discovered accounts into governed, auditable access paths instead of scattered shared passwords and long-lived keys.