Overview of Privileged Access Management

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity that focuses on involves controlling, monitoring, and securing the access of to privileged accounts within an organization's IT infrastructure. These accounts have elevated permissions and access rights, making them critical to protect from unauthorized access and malicious activityenabling them to perform tasks such as configuring systems, managing users, and accessing sensitive data. Protecting these accounts is essential to prevent unauthorized access and potential security breaches.

EmpowerID’s Approach to PAM

EmpowerID offers a comprehensive and modern PAM solution tailored designed for the multi-cloud eraand hybrid environments. The platform emphasizes achieving zero-standing privilege by ensuring the right solution emphasizes the Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) principle, ensuring that privileged access is granted only when necessary to the right identities at the right time, across any workloadauthorized identities and for a specified duration. EmpowerID provides two distinct deployment models for PAM: Advanced PAM and Basic PAM.

Advanced PAM

The Advanced PAM model in EmpowerID is characterized by its features an agentless and vaultless architecture. This approach simplifies , simplifying deployment and management , while providing robust protection across cloud and on-premise premises environments. Advanced PAM This model leverages EmpowerID's modern microservices and Kubernetes architecture, enabling seamless integration -based architecture for scalability and flexibility.

Advanced PAM integrates with Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Access Management (AM) systems . This integration facilitates to enable controlled privilege escalation, delegation management, and task-based automation, extending PAM's . It extends PAM capabilities to include Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM), focusing on managing and securing access entitlements in cloud environments.

Key features Features of Advanced PAM include:

• Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP): Ensures no permanent privileged access, minimizing attack surfaces Grants privileged access only when required, reducing the risk associated with permanent privileged accounts.

• Agentless and Vaultless Architecture: Eliminates the need for installing agents or maintaining credential vaults, streamlining deployment.

• Microservices and Kubernetes: Provides scalability and flexibility in deploying PAM across diverse environments Utilizes containerization for scalability and adaptability to changing workloads.

• Integration with Major AM and IGA VendorsIGA and AM Systems: Supports open standards for seamless interoperability with major vendors and platforms like , including Microsoft Azure.

• Controlled Privilege Escalation and Delegation Management (CPEDM): Manages Allows temporary elevation of privileges and delegation of tasks based on defined policies.

Basic PAM

For traditional The Basic PAM use cases, EmpowerID offers a secure model provides a traditional, vault-based solution for managing privileged credentials. This model includes a centralized vault where credentials are securely stored and managed. Access to these credentials is governed by granular policies , which that define who can request access, the duration of conditions for access, and whether the credential's password should be rotated the duration. Password rotation can be automated upon check-in or on according to a schedule.

Key features Features of Basic PAM include:

• Secure Credential Vault: Centralized storage of Central repository for storing privileged credentials with strong security controls.

• Granular Access Policies: Fine-tuned control over who Define access permissions, specifying which users can access which certain credentials and under what conditions.

• Automated Password Management: Automated Enhances security by automating password rotation to enhance security and reduce the risk of compromised credentials.

EmpowerID’s Converged Solution

EmpowerID's PAM solution is part of a broader, converged its Identity Fabric that integrates PAM, IGA, and AM platform, which integrates Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Access Management (AM) functionalities. This comprehensive approach integration provides a unified and streamlined solution platform for managing identities and access across an the organization's entire IT landscapeenvironment.

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. Combining PAM, IGA, and AM into a single platform aims to reduce complexity, improve security, and enhance operational efficiency.