Protect critical assets
Reduce insider threats
Ensure compliance
Minimize breach risk
PAM solutions provide a targeted way to manage, monitor, and control access to your most sensitive and high-risk environments.
Why is PAM needed?
Privileged Access Management is a specialized area within the larger field of Identity and Access Management (IAM). It tackles critical risks associated with unmanaged privileged accounts. Below are some of the key risks PAM addresses:
Over-Provisioning: Privileged accounts frequently have more access than needed, expanding the attack surface.
Manual management and shared credentials: Managing privileges manually and shared credentials results in inconsistent enforcement of security policies and makes it difficult to track actions.
PAM centralizes control, mitigates risks, and ensures careful management and monitoring of privileged access.
SOME KEY FEATURES IN PAM SOLUTIONS
Real-time monitoring and recording of privileged sessions helps organizations keep track of actions taken by users with elevated privileges and ensures accountability. If any suspicious activity occurs, these logs can be reviewed to identify potential security breaches.
Just-in-time access provisions privileges only when necessary and for a limited time. This ensures that users are granted elevated permissions only for specific tasks and only for as long as required, reducing the risk of misuse or unauthorized access over time.
Endpoint Privilege Management regulates local administrative access on endpoints (like laptops and servers), stopping users from logging in with excessive privileges on their devices. By lowering the privileges at the endpoint level, organizations can reduce the risk of malware or attacks exploiting admin rights.
PAM ensures that credentials such as passwords and tokens are automatically updated and rotated. It reduces the risk of older or compromised information being used for unauthorized access. Automatic rotation eliminates manual tasks and reduces the risk of errors while improving safety.
USE AREAS AND BENEFITS
Strengthen security
PAM reduces your attack surface by limiting extended access rights to only those people who really need it. By applying the principle of least privilege, PAM reduces the number of access points that malicious actors can exploit.
Additionally, PAM helps prevent malware from gaining a foothold or spreading within your network by restricting the privileges that malware can exploit. With PAM, you can significantly reduce the likelihood and impact of security incidents.
Boost efficiency
PAM simplifies access management and automates privilege controls, reducing IT friction and operational complexity. Key factors to enhance efficiency include:
- Automated privilege management: PAM reduces the workload of IT teams by automating access control and rotation of credentials such as passwords, tokens and certificates.
- Improved system performance: PAM ensures that users have only the essential permissions, preventing unnecessary privileges from causing issues or conflicts between systems.
- Reduced risk of downtime:PAM minimizes the likelihood of errors that could result in system crashes by restricting users' permissions to only what is essential for their tasks.
Ensure compliance
PAM helps ensure compliance by recording detailed audit trails of all activities by users with extended privileges. This makes it easy to comply with regulations such as NIS2.
By implementing clear and consistent access policies for privileged accounts, PAM makes system administration less complex. It also makes it easier for organizations to demonstrate compliance with regulations and standards during security audits.
Securing identities with privileged access to systems, data, applications, and other sensitive resources is crucial to maintaining organizational security.
Zero Trust Security and PAM
In a Zero Trust security model, the core principle is "never trust, always verify." No user or device, whether inside or outside the network, is automatically trusted.
PAM plays a crucial role in Zero Trust by tightly managing and monitoring privileged access. By enforcing least privilege and verifying every access request, PAM ensures that even users with elevated permissions must constantly prove their identity and intent before accessing critical systems, in line with Zero Trust principles.
Secure your privileged accounts with a tailored PAM solution
We specialize in helping organizations find the right PAM solutions that are tailored to their unique needs. Our team works with you to design and deploy a PAM framework that integrates seamlessly with your existing identity and access management infrastructure.