Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide

© Jason Garbis and Jerry W. Chapman 2021

J. Garbis, J. W. ChapmanZero Trust Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6702-8_12

12. Privileged Access Management

Jason Garbis¹   and Jerry W. Chapman²

(1)

Boston, MA, USA

(2)

Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a sector of the IT security industry, with vendor offerings that control, manage, and report on how privileged users (system admins) access systems or resources, via a set of security functions and processes. PAM can be used to control access to any system, but is generally just applied to high-value resources such as domain controllers and production servers. Zero Trust security, of course, is based on the premise that it should be used to protect all systems, but high-value ...