What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?
PAM refers to the set of governance, processes, and technology controls that manage elevated or (‘privileged’) permissions within an IT environment. Authorized users have access to the privileged information required to execute privileged commands and control user access permissions providing users with the least amount of privileges to perform their job.
PAM can be visualized by imagining an office that has restricted areas (e.g., a server room) with limited employee access. An organization can control access to these restricted areas using a pass card, for example. The same concept applies to enterprise PAM solutions. In this case, the employees are privileged users, the pass card is the privileged credentials, and the restricted areas are your systems and assets.
Why KeyData for PAM
Today’s complex businesses require a PAM solution that delivers a frictionless front-end experience for end users and tightly controlled access and security, while allowing for scalability in the future.
KeyData and our carefully chosen PAM vendor partnerships will help you stay several steps ahead of the hackers and protect your most sensitive assets from internal threats. KeyData’s team of experts can help you find a PAM solution based on your unique use cases with complete end-to-end implementation services to help you make the most out of your PAM solution deployment.
Methodology
KeyData looks at Privileged Access Management (PAM) holistically from a governance, process, and technology perspective to control elevated access and permissions across the organization. We center our approach on the Least Privilege and Need-to-Use principles to ensure that only the minimum required privileges are used when performing authorized privileged activities.
The KeyData difference and the holistic benefits you gain:
Policies, standards, and procedures
Monitoring and reporting
PAM strategy and roadmap
Accountability, roles and responsibilities
PAM training and awareness
PAM operating model and resources hiring
Asset and Account inventorying
Account provisioning, and decommissioning
Privileged access request & fulfillment
Privileged credential retrieval accounts & users
Privileged activity monitoring, reporting & alerting
Password storage and retrieval
Password management (e.g., automated rotation)
On-demand access elevation
Privileged session proxy
Activity logging, monitoring and alerting
Solution integrations (e.g ITSM and PAM integration)