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Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences · IAM, PAM & MFA
The Formula Never Leaves the Building
A pharmaceutical company brought privileged access, service accounts and MFA under one governed identity model.
4 hours
returned to the IT team each week
100%
of privileged and service accounts assigned an owner and review date
Recurring
access reviews replaced one-time cleanup
THE CHALLENGE
Why a stronger solution was needed
Administrative rights had accumulated across systems. Service accounts ran without named owners or review dates, and every workforce access change created manual work for a small IT team.
RAINBOW SECURE APPROACH
How the engagement was structured
Rainbow Secure built an account and privilege inventory, surfaced dormant and over-permissioned access, replaced accumulated rights with least-privilege equivalents, assigned ownership and review dates to service accounts, extended MFA and established joiner, mover, leaver and recurring recertification processes.
From problem to governed access
Review privileged credentials
Found dormant, shared and over-permissioned administrative access.
Govern service accounts
Assigned named ownership and scheduled review to every non-human account.
Roll out stronger authentication
Extended MFA across administrator, staff and cloud accounts.
Put governance in place
Added joiner, mover, leaver workflows and recurring recertification.
What was used, where and why
Rainbow Secure capability
Where it was used
How it helped
IAM inventory and lifecycle
Accounts, roles and workforce changes
Made access visible and established repeatable joiner, mover and leaver controls.
Privileged access management
Administrative rights
Replaced accumulated privilege with least-privilege access.
Service-account governance
Non-human identities
Assigned every service account a named owner and scheduled review.
MFA
Admin, staff and cloud accounts
Closed credential-only attack paths at authentication.
The business impact behind the technology
Research and intellectual property
Excess administrative access could expose proprietary pharmaceutical work.
Cloud and administrative systems
Accumulated privilege increases the impact of one compromised account.
Service accounts
Unowned non-human identities can remain active without review.
Risk connected to control
Threat or weakness
Control that addressed it
Stolen or reused passwords
MFA across admin, staff and cloud accounts
Standing privilege abuse
Least-privilege replacement of accumulated rights
Orphaned accounts
Inventory plus recurring recertification
Unowned service accounts
Named ownership and scheduled review
Former-employee access
Joiner, mover and leaver workflow
BUSINESS OUTCOME
What changed
Four hours were returned to the IT team each week. Every privileged and service account received an owner and review date, MFA closed credential-only attack paths, and recurring access reviews replaced a one-time cleanup.
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