PAM & IAM

Privileged Access Management
PAM or privileged access management is an essential security project for getting better control over user access, processes, and systems across the IT platform, thereby ensuring decreased cyber risk. PAM basically helps the companies by condensing their attack area and prevents or remediates the damage from third parties as well as insider negligence.

PAM is essential for mitigating certain privilege-based risks and challenges and also offers certain other benefits-
• Condensed attack surface
• Decreased malware
• Improved productivity
• Easily attainable compliance
Hence, every organization must establish and enforce a comprehensive privilege management policy and identify and collate all the privileged accounts as well as credentials.

Identity and Access Management
IAM or identity and access management is a framework that ensures users have an appropriate access to files, databases, and systems and helps monitor and manage these identities. IAM solutions manage the organization’s resources with its user management, access control, single sign on, provisioning, and governance capabilities. Without proper documentation and monitoring of these activities, an organization can be left exposed by the provisioned users. Hence, getting control over these rights, permissions, and user access to address IT efficiency, compliance, or security threats remains the central driving factors of an IAM solution.
PAM and IAM together help create an intricate control over all kinds of credentials. While the IAM controls ensure authentication of identities so that the right user can gain access at the right time, PAM ensures a more detailed and minute visibility and control over the privileged identities and activities.