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Privileged Access Management (PAM) Solution and Integration
IDENT1TY designs, integrates, and operates your privileged access management (PAM) architecture: credential vaulting, session recording, just-in-time access, and DevOps secrets protection, so your most exposed accounts are controlled and audit ready. As a vendor neutral integrator, we deploy the right PAM platform inside your environment.
What is Privileged Access Management?
Privileged access management (PAM) is the cybersecurity discipline that secures, controls, monitors, and records access to an organization’s most sensitive accounts, the administrator, root, and service accounts that can change systems or reach confidential data. It combines a secure credential vault, session controls, and least privilege enforcement so that powerful access is granted only when needed and always accounted for.
Privileged accounts are the highest value target in any environment. They make up a small share of all identities, often around 8%, yet they are involved in the large majority of serious breaches, because a single stolen admin credential gives an attacker a direct path to critical systems. PAM exists to close that path.
A modern PAM program rests on a recognizable set of capabilities: credential vaulting and rotation, privileged session monitoring and recording, just-in-time (JIT) access that removes standing privilege, and secrets management for DevOps and machine identities. The goal is zero standing privilege: no account holds more access than it needs, for longer than it needs it.
PAM vs IAM vs PIM: how they differ
These three acronyms overlap, but each secures a different part of identity.
IAM (identity and access management) is the broad category that manages all identities and their access, deciding who can sign in and to what, for the whole user population.
PAM (privileged access management) focuses specifically on the most powerful accounts, administrators, root, and service accounts, adding vaulting, session recording, and strict controls that ordinary user access does not require.
PIM (privileged identity management) is often used as a near synonym for PAM, but it leans toward governing which identities are eligible for privilege and for how long, while PAM leans toward securing and monitoring the privileged sessions themselves. In practice the two work together.
The simplest way to frame it: IAM governs everyone, PAM protects the powerful few, and PIM decides who is allowed to become powerful and when. Enterprises increasingly combine all three under a zero standing privilege model.
Why choose an PAM integrator over a single vendor
Most PAM vendors sell you a vault. But PAM projects rarely fail on the technology, they fail on deployment and follow-up: over-complex rollouts, ungoverned accounts left behind, and no discipline after go-live.
As a vendor neutral integrator, IDENT1TY delivers the part that determines success. We assess your privileged account estate, design the target architecture around your systems and constraints, integrate the right platform end to end, and operate it so controls hold long after deployment.
That means you get:
- A full analysis of your privileged accounts, assets, and use cases before any platform choice.
- End-to-end integration and hardening of PAM components, aligned with vendor best practices and your DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform).
- Ongoing operation: session review, just-in-time workflows, and audit ready evidence for DORA, NIS2, and sector regulators.
A pure vendor optimizes for its license. An integrator optimizes for privileged access you can actually control and prove.
Why most PAM projects fail?
Ungoverned privileged accounts
Open doors for attackers, regulatory non-compliance
Overly complex deployments
Blocked projects, impossible adoption, ROI never achieved
No post-project follow-up
Configuration drift, undetected incidents, growing risks
Privileged accounts: your most exposed attack surface
80% of breaches exploit poorly controlled admin accounts. Our approach drastically reduces this risk without slowing down your IT and DevOps teams.
Centralised secrets vault
Passwords, SSH keys, API tokens stored, rotated and delivered automatically. Zero plaintext secrets in your environments.
Recorded privileged sessions
Every admin session recorded with video replay and command indexing. Full auditability with no effort.
Just-in-time: on-demand access
Elevated rights granted for a limited time, on justified request. Permanent privileged access disappears.
DevOps pipeline protection
Native secrets management in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform and Kubernetes. Security integrates into your workflows, not against them.
What we do today
We support our clients in the design, deployment and industrialization of their PAM platforms, from initial scoping to go-live.
Scoping · Architecture · Go-live- Assessment of the current state, definition of scope and identification of the accounts, assets and privileged use cases
- Design of the target PAM architecture, tailored to the client's technical, business and security constraints
- Deployment, configuration and hardening of the PAM components in line with vendor best practices
- Change management, knowledge transfer and post-deployment support to ensure lasting adoption
We help organizations secure, control and automate the management of their sensitive secrets, passwords and technical accounts.
Vault · Rotation · Application secrets- Secure vaulting of privileged accounts, service accounts, technical accounts and application secrets
- Implementation of automatic rotation, complexity, expiration and password control policies
- Reduction of the risks tied to shared, unmanaged secrets or secrets stored in insecure locations
- Governance of secret access with traceability, approval, granular rights and separation of duties
We implement mechanisms to control, record and monitor sensitive sessions in order to strengthen operational security.
Recording · Traceability · MFA- Securing administrator access to servers, databases, network equipment, critical applications and cloud environments
- Recording, traceability and monitoring of privileged sessions for security, investigation and audit purposes
- Implementation of enhanced access controls: approval, MFA, contextual restrictions and conditional access policies
- Reduced exposure of sensitive accounts through session isolation and the limitation of direct access
We support enterprises in modernizing or migrating their existing PAM environments towards more robust and scalable platforms.
Audit · Migration · Continuity- Audit of the PAM platforms in place, identifying limitations, obsolescence, risks and technical dependencies
- Definition of a progressive, secure migration roadmap adapted to production constraints
- Migration of the existing configurations, accounts, policies, vaults, connectors and use cases
- Securing the transition to limit service interruptions and preserve business continuity
We integrate PAM solutions into the client's IT and security environment to create a coherent, industrialized chain of control.
SIEM · ITSM · IAM · Cloud- Integration with directories, IAM, IGA, MFA, ITSM, SIEM, CMDB, EDR and cloud platforms
- Implementation of connectors, workflows and automation to streamline day-to-day PAM operations
- Connection to the existing processes for access requests, approval, provisioning, incident and change management
- Alignment of PAM with hybrid, multi-cloud and international architectures, as well as with business-critical environments
We help our clients demonstrate effective control of privileged access and produce reliable, readable and actionable audit evidence.
DORA · ACPR · NIS2 · ISO 27001- Implementation of audit reports on access, sessions, passwords, exceptions and sensitive actions
- Alignment of PAM controls with regulatory requirements, internal policies and security standards
- Identification of gaps, unmanaged accounts, excessive access and risky practices
- Development of prioritized remediation plans to durably improve the PAM security posture
Our numbers talk for us
28
years of experience
+100
Active Certifications
76
Projects deployed in 2025
17
Countries covered
+40
IAM/PAM/IGA certified experts
Use cases
PAM deployment as part of a DORA compliance program
Control of privileged access in a heavily outsourced environment.
A private wealth-management bank heavily exposed to the DORA regulation, with significant outsourcing of its infrastructure.
Administrator accounts were shared between internal teams and contractors, with no central vault and no fine-grained session traceability. The regulator's expectations made this situation untenable.
Another use case, another challenge.
Hybrid PAM for a multi-site hospital group
Securing biomedical and IT contractor access within a healthcare digital-transformation context.
A hospital group engaged in a healthcare digital-transformation roadmap, needing to regain control of the remote access used by its outsourcing and biomedical-equipment contractors.
The specific challenge lay in the coexistence of classic IT systems and biomedical devices whose maintenance is strictly governed by the manufacturers.
Privileged Access Management FAQ
Clear answers on what PAM is, how it differs from IAM and PIM, and what a modern privileged access program covers.
If admin credentials still live in spreadsheets or shared vaults, these are the questions worth asking now.
What is privileged access management?
What is the difference between PAM and IAM?
What is the difference between PAM and PIM?
What is just-in-time (JIT) access?
Why are privileged accounts a security risk?
Does PAM help with compliance?
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