Your Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity Management (IdM) should work hand in hand to secure your users’ access and identities – regular users and privileged users alike. But traditional solutions struggle to achieve that.
Let’s look at what organizations need to understand about PAM and IdM and how you can bridge and future-proof your PAM and IdM.
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PIM, PAM, IAM – you need all three of them
Not all digital identities are created equal
Enter the Zero Trust, borderless future
Enter the Zero Trust future with SSH Communications Security and Microsoft
PIM, PAM, IAM – you need all three of them
Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity and Access Management (IAM) - all three are closely connected, and you need all three of them to effectively manage and secure your digital identities, users, and access.
Let’s quickly review what PIM, PAM, and IAM focus on:
- PIM – management of root user identities and authorizations
- PAM – management of root user access to critical resources and auditing
- IAM – management of basic user identities, authorizations, and access to resources
Learn more about PIM and the differences between PIM, PAM, and IAM in this article >>>
Not all digital identities are created equal
Think about this: Your typical user probably needs access to regular office tools, like your CRM or M365. They don’t need access to any of your critical assets.
The identity verification process should correspond to this. A regular user needs to be verified with strong authentication methods, e.g. Microsoft Entra ID, but there’s usually no need to go beyond that.
These typical users form the majority of your users, up to 99,5% of them.
On the other hand, you have your privileged high-impact users – there’s only a small number of them (typically around 1 in 200 users), but the power and risks they carry are huge. Because they can access your critical data, databases, infrastructures, and networks.
Similarly, appropriate identity verification procedures should apply. In the case of your high-impact users, you need access controls that go beyond strong identity-based authentication.
Enter the Zero Trust, borderless future
Traditional solutions are not enough to bridge your PAM and IdM. They just can’t handle the security that you need to protect your critical assets. Nor can they offer effective and future-proof security controls for access and identities of your typical users as well as high-impact users.
The future of cybersecurity is borderless, passwordless, keyless, biometric, and Zero Trust.
This means that you need a future-proof cybersecurity model with no implicitly trusted users, connections, applications, servers, or devices. On top of that, you need an additional layer of security with passwordless, keyless, and biometric authentication.
Enter the Zero Trust future with SSH Communications Security and Microsoft
SSH Zero Trust Suite bolts your PAM onto your identity management. In other words, SSH Zero Trust Suite (PAM) is the perfect bolt-on for Microsoft Entra product family (IAM/IdM).
Like this, you can bridge your PAM and IdM and secure your regular as well as high-impact users within any environment, whether it's IT or OT, hybrid, cloud, or on-premises.
Learn more about the future of identity and access management - check out our combination solution of SSH Zero Trust Suite and Microsoft Entra >>>
