Management of risks — both reputation and financial — is one of the most important business tasks. Confidential information and internal regulations of any company is a higher priority target of business intelligence and competition. Protection of such data is a matter of confidence and high responsibility. Therefore, not all users of business information systems have privileged accounts.
Why monitoring privileged account activity is critical
In 2024–2025, monitoring privileged account behavior has become even more critical. According to IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, compromised credentials remain the leading cause of breaches, while incidents involving privileged accounts result in higher financial and reputational impact than standard user compromises.
Financial and industrial organizations increasingly face insider-driven risks, where misuse of legitimate access is harder to detect than external attacks.
How to audit privileged user actions in real environments
However, the proper assignment of privileged users does not guarantee protection from data leakage or illegal actions of employees or other interested individuals. Information security stipulates for not only regulation of access to important data, but also an audit of user actions.
Detecting misuse of privileged accounts requires more than basic access controls. Organizations must analyze how, when, and why privileged access is used.
Typical warning signs include off-hours activity, concurrent sessions from different locations, repeated access to sensitive systems outside an employee’s role, or unexpected administrative actions during routine sessions. These indicators often point to compromised credentials or internal misuse.
Using session recording to investigate privileged access
The basis of Axidian Privilege is controlling the privileged user actions. The said system provides for solution of the following tasks:
- provision of screen recording (video recording of privileged user actions on a computer);
- provision for session text recording (record of all launched processes and keyboard input);
- storage of user action records in archive with indication of user account and server where the action took place (including RDP sessions).
Control of privileged user actions cannot be provided for via information system administrator account only. For this, you need a fully functional system with an opportunity to track all the operations performed. It can be implemented, for example, via event log and recording of privileged sessions.
Axidian Privilege supports this approach through full session recording and audit of privileged access. By capturing RDP and SSH sessions as video, text logs, and screenshots, security teams can reconstruct events, attribute actions to specific users, and investigate incidents with clear evidence. Integration with SIEM systems allows organizations to correlate privileged session data with security events and respond faster to suspicious activity.
Session recorder module of Axidian Privilege makes it possible to track who used privileged access, how and what for. This is possible due to that the Axidian Privilege is a web application working on Internet Information Services (IIS) server. Therefore, you can set up access parameters either locally or remotely.
The administrator console allows for general management of access to critical data for an employee (access level, accounts) and user action audit.
Only complete system of controlling of the user actions allows the business owners to find out what privileged accounts are used for by employees and how.
This, in turn, provides internal protection from reputation and financial risks for the company. For more details about Axidian Privilege please visit our website.
