Privileged Access Management
Privileged Access Management is the discipline of governing, controlling, and monitoring elevated access to sensitive systems and functions.
- Acronym
- PAM
- Synonym
- PAM
Definition
Privileged Access Management, or PAM, is the set of processes and controls used to protect powerful accounts, secrets, sessions, and elevated operations across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments. It includes vaulting, rotation, least privilege, temporary elevation, approval, session oversight, and traceability for privileged actions.
Why it matters
PAM protects the most powerful and dangerous access paths in the enterprise environment.
The Ariovis perspective
Privileged security should begin by reducing standing privilege, governing accounts and automating grants and revocations. Vaults, bastions and session controls are reserved for the use cases that genuinely need them.
Common pitfalls
- A common pitfall is deploying PAM tools without addressing the operational processes and ownership around privileged access.
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