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Privileged Access Management

Privileged access management can become very complex if we let all the different technologies involved overwhelm us too soon.

But at its heart PAM has one simple task: to ensure that access to secrets is as secure as possible and only for those people authorised to see them.

Guide
Guide
Privileged Access Management: Nearly Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Your guide to why Privileged Access matters to your business. Learn about the basics to get started with PAM.
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KC Open Select
KC Open Select
Privileged Access Management
Create a shortlist of solutions tailored to privileged access management your needs and compare them directly. View solution detailed ratings, demo videos, analyst interviews and contact vendors...
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Master Class
Master Class
Identity & Access Management (IAM) Essentials
In this KC Master Class you will get a deep understanding of the terms and concepts of Identity and Access Management (IAM). Our analysts will teach common use cases, the various types of...
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Master Class
Master Class
PAM for the 2020s
Attend this KC Master Class to learn how to protect privileged accounts of your company. Based on many years of experience, KuppingerCole Analysts will deliver practical knowledge on password...
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Webinar
Webinar
The Future of Identity Security: PAM+CIEM+ITDR
Digital transformation is creating huge opportunities for business, but it is also introducing new vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cyber attackers by massively and rapidly expanding the...
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Blog
Blog
The Latest Twitter “Hack” Raises Inconvenient Questions
It looks like the whole world is currently talking (at least, tweeting) about the latest large-scale Twitter hack. High profile accounts of the likes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and...
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Advisory Note
Advisory Note
Identity Authentication Standards
Authentication is a core component of Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions and central to the security and management of modern organizations. For many years, the industry has been...
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Webinar Recording
Webinar Recording
Understanding the Privileged Access Management (PAM) Market
Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions are critical cybersecurity controls that address the security risks associated with the use of privileged access in organizations and companies. To...
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Managing Privileged Access in Complex IT Environments for Business Benefit
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Managing Privileged Access in Complex IT Environments for Business Benefit
Ensuring that only authorized individuals can access IT systems and data is at the core of cybersecurity, especially as most successful cyber-attacks are enabled by the abuse of stolen credentials....
A New Pamocracy is Growing Inside Your Organization
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A New Pamocracy is Growing Inside Your Organization
OK everybody is doing it right now, so I asked the analyst’s new best friend, Chat GPT, to define Privileged Access Management. Here is what it said: “Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a...
Identity Fabrics: Where Do You Stand? Where Should You Go?
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Identity Fabrics: Where Do You Stand? Where Should You Go?
The term and concept of Identity Fabrics has become popular in recent years. We observe widespread adoption of the concept as the foundation for further evolving IAM (Identity & Access Management)...
PAM in a Post-Pandemic Digital World
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PAM in a Post-Pandemic Digital World
Business IT and the way people work is changing. Trends towards digital transformation and remote working have only been accelerated by the global Covid pandemic. Therefore, the ways organizations...
DREAM: A New Entitlement Management Model for Modern IT 
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DREAM: A New Entitlement Management Model for Modern IT 
KuppingerCole has defined a model for this new paradigm of Dynamic Resource Entitlement and Access Management (DREAM). The DREAM model envisages common service development, delivery, and...
Securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
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Securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
Cybersecurity has become essential for every modern business, but has historically focused on securing information technology (IT) used by the administrative side of the business, rather than...
Privileged Access Management
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Privileged Access Management
Credential theft is the most popular way cyber criminals use to access corporate environments, but real power comes from compromising privileged credentials, which is why Privileged Access...
Remote Working
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Remote Working
In recent years remote working has become increasingly common to enable people to remain productive while away from the office. However, the Covid 19 pandemic resulted in an almost overnight need...
EIC Speaker Spotlight: Chris Owen on Identity Management
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EIC Speaker Spotlight: Chris Owen on Identity Management
Chris Owen, Director of Product Management at Savyint is to deliver a presentation on Worlds Collide: The Importance of Convergence in IAM on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 8:30 pm at EIC...
PAM Is Changing and You Need to Know Why
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PAM Is Changing and You Need to Know Why
What is left to say about PAM that has not already been said? Well in my opinion, quite a lot – as I hope you find out when you join me at the forthcoming KCLive Event, Operationalizing...
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