Hitachi ID Bravura Privilege

Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms reduce the risks created by uncontrolled privileged access, which frequently enables successful cyber-attacks through abuse of shared credentials, unauthorized elevation, credential theft, and misuse of third-party privileges. Privileged accounts are a prime target for criminals because they offer efficient entry for ransomware and data theft, making PAM central to defending against malware, phishing, and data exfiltration. The use case has expanded beyond traditional administrators to organization-wide, task-based access across legacy and multi-cloud infrastructures, with a major driver being the rapid growth of machine identities needing privileged access.

This evolution is occurring alongside growing interest in Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and an emerging “Dynamic Entitlement Resource and Access Management (DREAM)” paradigm, where future ultra-hybrid environments blend multiple clouds, on-premises legacy networks, partner networks, and sometimes mainframes. These conditions pressure existing security frameworks and demand rapid, policy-driven access to dynamic resources wherever they reside.

Hitachi ID Bravura Privilege is positioned as the PAM component within the broader Hitachi ID Bravura Identity suite, collectively branded as the Bravura Security Fabric. Bravura Privilege includes identity, password, and access management modules (with built-in 2FA and federated access), plus Bravura Discover for privileged account discovery and risk assessment. Recent improvements emphasize a modernized UI, simplified workflows, enhanced dashboards, a “recent” button for faster session/request review, multiple access brokering methods, a web gateway proxying RDP/SSH/VNC/Telnet, and a Web Session Manager with full session recording and termination that prevents credential interception.

The platform extends governance via integrated IGA features (RBAC, certifications, separation of duties, onboarding/offboarding), strengthens vaulting with Large Secret Support (files up to 5MB plus keys/certs), offers compliance-aware session redaction and dual authorization for viewing, and stands out with strong disaster recovery and active-active high availability with real-time replication. Integrations now exceed 140, including Kubernetes and DevOps-relevant tooling, while challenges remain around PEDM, some remote privileged access elements, cloud connectors, and further CIEM-oriented development for DREAM.

• Most successful cyber-attacks involve misuse of privileged accounts.
• PAM must address abuse of shared credentials, misuse of elevated privileges by unauthorized users, theft of privileged credentials, and abuse on third-party systems.
• Criminals increasingly use privileged accounts to mount ransomware attacks and steal valuable data.
• Privilege management use cases now extend across entire organizations, including task-based access across legacy and multi-cloud infrastructures.
• Hitachi ID Bravura Privilege includes three core modules: an identity manager, a password manager, and an access manager.
• Two-factor authentication and federated access are built into the password manager.
• Bravura Discover is designed to discover privileged accounts, groups, entitlements, and metadata to uncover hidden vulnerabilities.
• The platform can be deployed on-premises, in a private cloud, or as a single-tenant public cloud SaaS solution.
• The total number of integrations for Bravura Privilege surpasses 140.
• The enhanced vault supports storing files up to 5MB and associating them with passwords, certificates, regular passwords, and SSH keys.

• “Criminals are actively targeting privileged accounts as the best way to get inside an organization”
• “Therefore, PAM is an essential component in protecting organizations against cyber-attacks, malware distribution, phishing, and data exfiltration.”
• “The biggest change has been the increase in the number of machine identities that require privileged access”
• “Buyers are increasingly aware that a well configured and up to date PAM platform can be an integral part of any such architecture design and policies.”
• “This Dynamic Entitlement Resource and Access Management (DREAM) paradigm is what the next iteration of PAM platforms… must be engineered to fit”
• “These ultra-hybrid networks will test existing identity and security frameworks to their limit”
• “Hitachi ID Bravura Privilege has been redesigned to present a much more modern interface with easier login and navigation”
• “A highlight of the interface is the ‘recent’ button”
• “A strength is the disaster recovery features – better than most PAM vendors and not something that you would normally expect”
• “It feels like Hitachi ID is getting the extra support and capabilities it needed to compete with the leaders”