Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Privileged Access Management (PAM) focuses specifically on controlling, monitoring, and auditing accounts with elevated privileges — administrator accounts, service accounts, and root accounts that have broad access to systems and data. Because privileged accounts can do the most damage if compromised, they require extra security measures.

PAM solutions typically include privileged credential vaulting (storing admin passwords securely), just-in-time access (granting privileges only when needed and automatically revoking them), session recording (capturing what administrators do), and behavioral analytics to detect misuse of privileged accounts.