Privileged Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Organizations

© Morey J. Haber and Brad Hibbert 2018

Morey J. Haber and Brad HibbertPrivileged Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3048-0_11

11. PAM Architecture

Morey J. Haber¹  and Brad Hibbert²

(1)

Heathrow, Florida, USA

(2)

Carp, Ontario, Canada

 

Privileged Access Management (PAM) provides an automated password and session management solution that provides secure access control, auditing, alerting, and recording for any privileged account. The technology is designed to manage a local or domain shared administrator account; a user’s personal admin account; service, operating system, network device, database (A2DB), and application (A2A) accounts; and even SSH keys, cloud, and social media. By improving the accountability and control over privileged ...