Sometimes you need to experience something firsthand to understand the real difference. I had one of those experiences in the Alps just recently.
I had heard about the benefits of electric bikes before. I sort of understood that it is less effort to ride an e-bike. What I did not understand is that it really is a paradigm shift in the experience of riding a bike.
The first thing that hit me was acceleration. With an e-bike, you just pedal a few times with the boost on, and you’ve suddenly gained significant speed from a complete standstill.
The second thing was riding up rising slopes. On our way to the destination, we saw three young guys riding traditional bikes exerting huge effort just to keep some sort of momentum going on a steep hill. One of them was walking the bike. I was just cruising past these three gentlemen who were certainly more fit than I am.
The saying ‘as easy as riding a bike’ has never been truer. Sometimes it’s not the rider, it’s the bike.
Just like the e-bike, a modern privileged access management (PAM) solution should make accessing challenging IT or Operational Technology (OT) terrains effortless for people who are not experts in using these tools. Putting the user experience at the forefront and making sure that the engine that runs the PAM solution is modern and capable to adapt to different access landscapes is the way to achieve this.
Here's a short description of the truly modern privileged access experience.
A modern PAM may have the same framework as the old one, but the architecture is built to operate at cloud speed. It’s the same as with electric cars. The body is almost the same but the engine is entirely different. It’s because the e-car engine hasn’t been retrofitted from a combustion engine but designed completely anew to maximize the benefits of new technology.
So what’s under the hood of modern PAM software?
The traditional bike and e-bike look approximately the same. There’s also little difference with the way you operate the bike: brakes, gear, how you pedal, lights, etc. work as before.
It’s the same with traditional PAM and modern, hybrid PAM. You might understand the difference between passwordless & keyless PAM and vaulting PAM on a cognitive level, but if you haven’t experienced it, it might be hard to get a real sense of the difference.
But once you’ve had the experience, you don’t want to go back to vaulting, rotating, and managing passwords or keys anymore. Our customers say the same. Not a single one of them has ever gotten back to us and said “I wish I was still managing and rotating thousands of passwords like in the past”.
Learn why KuppingerCole Analysts recognized our PrivX Hybrid Privileged Access Management solution as a leader for dynamic, hybrid cloud environments in the following categories:
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