The premises and opinions of this white paper are based on historical and current research. Over the last 10 years, IDC customer and vendor surveys show that IT and senior management are becoming increasingly concerned about internal security, especially among highly privileged administrators.

This paper analyzes common vulnerabilities in protecting server resources and suggests a solution based on two key elements - server access management and auditing. Working together, server access management and auditing can improve regulatory compliance and data privacy, provide greater IT accountability, partition access to superuser and root accounts, assign more granular responsibilities to individual IT people, monitor activities, and correlate actions across multiple systems.