PAM focuses on securing and managing privileged accounts and access to critical systems and data. It includes technologies like privileged session management, password vaults, and just-in-time access.
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We can clearly recommend this technology. It has been used for longer period of time at many customers and it has proven to be stable and useful.
AD Bridging is a legacy technology that enables integration between Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and non-Windows systems such as Unix, Linux, and macOS through traditional enterprise directory protocols like Kerberos and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), so that users sign in to those hosts with their directory account and administrators control access through directory groups. While historically important for centralized identity management across heterogeneous environments, AD Bridging represents an increasingly outdated approach as modern identity management has evolved toward standards-based authentication using OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and certificate-based credentials.
Privileged Password Management (PPM) is the part of Privileged Access Management (PAM) that controls the passwords of administrator, service and shared accounts.
It keeps them in an encrypted vault, releases or injects them only to authorized users under policy, records every use, and changes them on the target system afterwards, so that no person needs to know a root or administrator password to do their work.
Privileged Secret Management is the secure storage, access control, and rotation of the credentials that applications, pipelines, and services use rather than people: cryptographic keys, API tokens, database credentials, and other secrets.
It replaces secrets hard-coded in source code and configuration files, which are copied widely and rarely rotated, with a managed store that releases them at runtime to authorized workloads and records each use.
Privileged Session Recording and Management captures, monitors, and controls the sessions in which administrators and other privileged users work on critical systems.
Routing those sessions through a proxy lets an organization watch them live, terminate them, and replay them later, which provides the accountability, forensic evidence, and compliance record that privileged access otherwise lacks.