Privileged Administrative Workstations (PAWs)

  • A hardened workstation for performing sensitive tasks like administration of domain controllers, cloud infrastructure, sensitive business functions etc.
  • Can provide protection from phishing attacks, OS vulnerabilities, credential replay attacks.
  • Admin Jump servers to be accessed only from a PAW, multiple strategies
    • Separate privilege and hardware for administrative and normal tasks.
    • Having a VM on a PAW for user tasks.