PAM

Privileged Access Management

What is PAM?

PAM (Privileged Access Management) solutions enable monitoring, auditing, and precise control over access to critical systems and applications, particularly in situations where users have elevated privileges, which increases the risk of misuse.

Traditional PAM solutions primarily focus on protecting IT administrator accounts. However, organizations striving for comprehensive system security should adopt modern tools that allow the implementation of a single, unified security policy covering IT administrators, office employees, and external vendors.

Key PAM Features

Credential storage and rotation
Providing an MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) layer
Session isolation and monitoring
Auditing and reporting of actions performed by users
Compliance with regulations (including GDPR, PCI DSS, and NIS2)

Why your company needs a PAM solution

Secure administrator access

Privileged accounts have elevated levels of access, and their compromise can give cybercriminals full control over an organization’s systems, data, and infrastructure. Proper protection and monitoring of administrator activities minimizes the risk of serious incidents such as data breaches, sabotage, or disruption of business operations.

Secure privileged remote access for employees

Securing access to an organization’s critical resources becomes particularly challenging in the case of remote employees. As the number of individuals accessing corporate systems from outside the office increases, so does the number of potential security gaps. Additionally, organizations must strike a balance between ensuring flexible access and maintaining a high level of security.

Privileged access management for IT vendors

External vendors often require privileged access to an organization’s critical systems, which poses significant risk due to limited control over their local environments. Implementing PAM enables real-time monitoring and restriction of vendor access, providing full visibility into activities as well as compliance with regulations and security best practices.

Privileged access management for OT vendors

The OT sector includes industrial systems that automatically monitor and control physical processes, communicating through specialized protocols that often lack integrity and confidentiality mechanisms. A key challenge is also outdated and difficult-to-manage authentication, which increases the risk of incidents that may lead to real threats to people and infrastructure.

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PAM in the context of NIS2

The NIS2 Directive places strong emphasis on access control, risk management, and protecting critical systems from unauthorized use. Implementing PAM supports NIS2 compliance by limiting privileges, enforcing MFA, monitoring privileged account activity, and securing access for employees and vendors to organizational resources.

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FAQs

The biggest challenge is often changing the approach to privileged accounts within the organization — especially convincing administrators that using PAM does not hinder their work but actually improves it. This requires introducing new procedures, eliminating permanent access, and adopting a more controlled working model, which may initially be perceived as limiting flexibility. In practice, however, PAM automates many tasks, simplifies access, and enhances security, which is why proper team preparation and clear communication of the benefits are key.

SSH

PrivX by SSH is a privileged access management tool that eliminates the need for traditional passwords — and even SSH keys — by authenticating users with certificates instead. It enables secure access management for both on-premise and cloud environments, offering advanced session monitoring and auditing capabilities.

Delinea

Delinea PAM provides secure storage, management, and auditing of credentials used to access sensitive systems and applications. The tool includes features such as automatic password rotation, least-privilege access control, and monitoring of privileged user sessions.

Delinea works particularly well in large organizations, offering advanced integration capabilities across cloud and hybrid environments, enabling seamless access management within complex infrastructures.

Fudo

Fudo PAM focuses on monitoring, controlling, and auditing access to sensitive systems and applications. One of its key features is easy session recording, capturing the actions of privileged users to ensure full visibility and the ability to analyze activities. The solution also offers strong access control mechanisms aligned with the least-privilege principle. Fudo PAM can be implemented quickly (even within a single day) and requires minimal configuration.

Silverfort

Silverfort is a modern PAM and Identity Security solution distinguished by its ability to protect privileged access even in environments where agents or traditional MFA cannot be deployed — such as legacy systems, OT environments, or services based on NTLM and LDAP. The platform acts as an intermediary layer between the user and the service, enforcing Zero Trust policies and multi-factor authentication for administrators and external vendors.

Just-in-Time is a security strategy based on granting users temporary elevated privileges only for the time necessary to complete a specific task. Once the work is finished or a defined period expires, access is automatically revoked, eliminating the risk of permanently active administrative privileges. A good example of this approach is Delinea’s solutions, which enable precise access assignment and immediate revocation after the operation is completed, significantly reducing the risk of misuse and privileged account compromise.

PAM enforces the principle of least privilege by ensuring that users, applications, and processes have only the minimum level of access required to perform their tasks. This approach reduces the risk of data breaches and insider threats.

In the Identity-First Security strategy, identity becomes the foundation for all decisions regarding access to organizational resources. Unlike traditional PAM, Identity-First Security is a more comprehensive approach that covers all identities — both human and machine (e.g., APIs, applications). This strategy enables control over system access for regular users as well as external vendors, allowing for comprehensive protection of organizational resources.

The Identity-First Security approach can be implemented using tools focused on identity and access management within an organization. These include not only PAM solutions, but also:

IAM (Identity Access Management),
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB),
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA),
Single Sign-On (SSO).

In summary, traditional PAM mainly focuses on controlling, auditing, and monitoring privileged access to sensitive systems. Modern PAM, based on an Identity-First Security strategy, extends to holistic identity management, thereby strengthening supply chain security and remote access protection.