When IGA Meets PAM: Extending Identity Governance to Highly Privileged Accounts

Hackers, thieves and cyber attackers never sit idle. They constantly evolve their technology and approaches to breach security perimeters, gaining access to highly sensitive and lucrative information. Now more than ever, they are targeting users inside your organization using malware, social engineering and a host of other tactics to compromise credentials and gain entry.
To protect mission-critical systems and applications, many organizations implement both Privileged Account Management (PAM) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) systems, yet do so separately and in isolation. Let’s consider an example: Alex, is a system engineer who is responsible for ensuring his company’s website and database is maintained and available. To do maintenance work, he gains access to the database and webserver through the company’s PAM solution; checking credentials in and out of the PAM vault. In addition, he also has access to other non-privileged systems and applications (including Office365, email, and HR system) which is managed by the IGA solution. While this setup may be commonplace in today’s organization, it is a situation where PAM and IGA are managed in separate silos with no integration or communication between the two systems.

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