Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a critical component of cybersecurity that focuses on involves controlling, monitoring, and securing access to privileged accounts within an organization's IT infrastructure. These accounts possess have elevated permissions and access rights, enabling them to perform sensitive tasks such as configuring systems, managing users, and accessing confidential sensitive data. Due to their powerful capabilities, privileged accounts are prime targets for unauthorized access and malicious activities, making their protection paramountProtecting these accounts is essential to prevent unauthorized access and potential security breaches.
EmpowerID’s Approach to PAM
In today's EmpowerID offers a PAM solution designed for multi-cloud era, organizations require a PAM solution that is both comprehensive and adaptable. EmpowerID addresses this need by offering a modern PAM platform that emphasizes the principle of and hybrid environments. The solution emphasizes the Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) . This approach ensures principle,ensuring that privileged access is granted only when necessary to the right identities, at the right time, authorized identities and for the right duration, across any workload. To cater to diverse organizational requirements, a specified duration. EmpowerID provides two distinct deployment models for PAM: Advanced PAM and Basic PAM.
Advanced PAM
EmpowerID's The Advanced PAM model is distinguished by its features an agentless and vaultless architecture. This approach simplifies , simplifying deployment and reduces management overhead by eliminating the need for agents and credential vaults, while still providing robust protection across cloud and on-premises environments. Advanced PAM This model leverages EmpowerID's modern microservices and Kubernetes-based architecture , delivering for scalability and flexibility in diverse IT landscapes.
A key advantage of Advanced PAM is its seamless integration integrates with Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Access Management (AM) systems . This integration enables to enable controlled privilege escalation, delegation management, and task-based automation, effectively extending PAM's . It extends PAM capabilities to include Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM). CIEM focuses , focusing on managing and securing access entitlements in cloud environments, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.
Key Features of Advanced PAM:
Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP): Eliminates permanent Grants privileged access , granting elevated permissions only when necessaryrequired, thereby minimizing the attack surfacereducing the risk associated with permanent privileged accounts.
Agentless and Vaultless Architecture: Simplifies deployment and management by removing Eliminates the need for installing agents or maintaining credential vaults, streamlining deployment.
Microservices and Kubernetes: Offers Utilizes containerization for scalability and resilience through a containerized architecture that adapts adaptability to changing workloads and environments.
Seamless Integration with IGA and AM Systems: Supports open standards for interoperability with major AM vendors and IGA vendorsplatforms, including platforms like Microsoft Azure, enhancing existing identity infrastructures.
Controlled Privilege Escalation and Delegation Management (CPEDM): Facilitates Allows temporary elevation of privileges and delegation of tasks , ensuring users have appropriate access when neededbased on defined policies.
Basic PAM
For organizations that prefer a traditional approach, EmpowerID's The Basic PAM model provides a securetraditional, vault-based solution for managing privileged credentials. This model includes a centralized vault where privileged credentials are securely stored and managed. Access to these credentials is governed by granular policies that define who can request access, the conditions under which for access is granted, and the duration of access, and password rotation schedules.Key . Password rotation can be automated upon check-in or according to a schedule.
Features of Basic PAM:
Secure Credential Vault: Provides a centralized repository with robust security controls Central repository for storing privileged credentials with security controls.
Granular Access Policies: Enables fine-tuned control over credential access Define access permissions, specifying which users can access which certain credentials and under what conditions.
Automated Password Management: Enhances security by automating password rotation upon check-in or according to a predefined schedule, reducing to reduce the risk of compromised credentials.
EmpowerID’s Converged Solution
EmpowerID's PAM solution is part of a broader, converged its Identity Fabric that seamlessly platform, which integrates Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Access Management (AM) functionalities. This comprehensive approach integration provides organizations with a unified and streamlined platform for managing identities and access across their entire IT landscapethe organization's IT environment.
By leveraging utilizing fine-grained IGA connectors and supporting integration with major vendors, EmpowerID delivers offers a complete and modular solution that addresses the full spectrum of various identity and access management needsrequirements. The convergence of Combining PAM, IGA, and AM into a single platform reduces aims to reduce complexity, improves improve security posture, and enhances operational efficiency.
Benefits of EmpowerID’s Converged Identity Fabric:
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Unified Identity Management: Simplifies administration by providing a single interface for managing all aspects of identity and access.
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Enhanced Security: Reduces risks by enforcing consistent policies and controls across all identity-related functions.
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Scalability and Flexibility: Adapts to organizational growth and changing technological landscapes, including multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
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enhance operational efficiency.