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What, Why and How PAM (Privilege Access Management) ?

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PAM - Privilege Access Management What is PAM? Why is PAM Important? How does PAM works? Benefits of PAM? How is IAM different from PAM? 1. What is PAM? It refers to system that securely manages the accounts of user who have elevated permissions to critical, corporate resources. These may be human administrators, devices, application and other types of users. Privileged user accounts are high value targets for cyber criminals, That's because thy have elevated permission in system, allowing them to access highly confidential information's and make administrative level changes to mission critical applications and systems. PAM is also sometime referred as Privileged account management or Privileged session management (PSM) PSM is actually a components of good PAM system 2. Why is PAM Important? Privilege accounts exist everywhere. There are many types of privileged accounts and thy can exists on-premised and in the cloud They differ from other accounts in that thy have elevated le...