A close analysis of the cybersecurity attacks of the past shows that, in most cases, the head of the cyber kill chain is formed by some kind of privilege abuse. In fact, Forrester estimates that compromised privileged credentials play a role in at least 80 percent of data breaches. This is the reason privileged access management (PAM) has gained so much attention over the past few years. With securing and managing access to business-critical systems at its core, PAM aims to provide enterprises with a centralized, automated mechanism to regulate access to superuser accounts. PAM solutions ideally do this by facilitating end-to-end management of the privileged identities that grant access to these accounts. However, the scope of privileged access security is often misconceived and restricted to securing and managing root account passwords alone. Passwords, beyond a doubt, are noteworthy privileged access credentials. But the constant evolution of te...
