The Zero Trust Framework and Privileged Access Management (PAM)

3 THE COMPONENTS OF PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT

What Exactly Is PAM?

DOI: 10.1201/9781003470021-3

The technical definition of PAM is as follows:

Privileged access management (PAM) is the combination of tools and technology used to secure, control and monitor access to an organization’s critical information and resources. Subcategories of PAM include shared access password management, privileged session management, vendor privileged access management (VPAM) and application access management.

(Source: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/privileged-access-management-PAM)

So as you can see from the definition, PAM is all about securing the login credentials of individuals. But it is not just used for anybody. Rather, the concepts of ...