Published: 22 November 2022
PAM tools provide significant cybersecurity value, but implementation presents many challenges and potential pitfalls. SRM leaders responsible for IAM should plan for success by focusing on culture, discovery, least privilege, visibility and operational efficiency.
Implementing privileged access management (PAM) tools is a difficult process under the best circumstances, but resistance from the user community and technical challenges delay or stall many PAM implementations.
A failure to account for the risk of privileged accounts is theroot cause of nearly every impactful breach. Managing the risk for the existence of privileged accounts is a top cybersecurity requirement.
Most organizations consistently struggle to achieve the principle of least privilege across all privileged use cases.
Visibility is a challenge for many organizations; for both on-premises and cloud, it’s not just enough to see who has access and when, but
Analysts:
Michael Kelley, Felix Gaehtgens, James Hoover, Abhyuday Data
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