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Conclusion: Privilege Is the Battlefield

Cybercrime has become a commodity due to Ransomware as a Service. Attackers only need your
admin passwords; they don't need to outsmart your firewalls. Your privileged accounts are often the
weakest link in the chain.

The directive is unambiguous for CEOs, CISOs, and CTOs

• Make PAM a primary resilience strategy investment.
• Require instant access to information about the use of privileged accounts.
• Consider each privileged credential as a possible weapon that ransomware organizations could
use.

Privilege is power in the RaaS era. If you don't protect it, attackers will use it as a weapon against your
company.

About the Author

Sandeep Dommari is a Senior Cybersecurity Architect and IAM Strategist
with over 18 years of experience designing secure access frameworks
across Fortune 100 enterprises. His work focuses on application security,
adaptive identity, and building secure-by-design architectures for critical
industries.

Sandeep can be reached online at [email protected]

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