{"id":6873,"date":"2022-05-09T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:12:01","slug":"what-is-privileged-access-management-pam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/what-is-privileged-access-management-pam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Privileged account management is the process of identifying, controlling and monitoring privileged accounts and their associated activity. Privileged accounts are typically high-level administrator accounts that have broad access rights across an organization\u2019s IT systems. Because of their elevated level of access, these accounts pose a significant risk if they were to fall into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During <a href=\"http:\/\/thecyphere.com\/services\/penetration-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">penetration testing assessments<\/a>, privileged abuse is one of the most critical reasons vertical privilege escalation attempts have been successful. This could be in the form of excessive privileges on a service account, stored credentials in an easy to decode, decrypt or text-readable format, password reuse, configuration files or a similar misconfiguration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our article on privileged access management covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Basics of Privileged accounts, privileged access<\/li><li>Risk and threats associated with privileged access<\/li><li>Basics and differences between PAM, IAM, Least privilege\u00a0<\/li><li>Why PAM solution is a helpful capability for a business, and the capabilities of a PAM solution\u00a0<\/li><li>Advantages and security controls of a PAM<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">securityboulevard.com<\/a> : <a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2022\/05\/what-is-privileged-access-management-pam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privileged account management is the process of identifying, controlling and monitoring privileged accounts and their associated activity. Privileged accounts are typically high-level administrator accounts that have broad access rights across an organization\u2019s IT systems. Because of their elevated level of access, these accounts pose a significant risk if they were to fall into the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1914],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-identity-manager-2","tag-pam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png?fit=141%2C124&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1MR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}