Traditional perimeter-based security has become expensive and ineffective. As a result, securing communications between people, systems, and networks is more important than blocking access with firewalls. Furthermore, most cybersecurity risks are caused by only a few superusers, typically one in 200 users. There is a company that aims to bridge the gap between traditional PAM and IdM solutions and protect your user over 200: SSH Communications Security.
Privileged access management (PAM) and identity management (IdM) should work hand in hand to protect user access and identities, both regular users and privileged users. But traditional solutions struggle to achieve this goal.
Let’s take a look at what organizations need to understand about PAM and IdM and how you can connect and future-proof PAM and IdM.
PIM, PAM, IAM: you need all three
Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) – all three are closely linked and are necessary to effectively manage and protect digital identities, users and access.
Let’s quickly review what PIM, PAM, and IAM focus on:
Not all digital identities are the same: superusers need superprotection
Think about this: Your typical user probably needs access to regular office tools, like your CRM or M365. They don’t need access to any of your critical resources.
The identity verification process should match this. A normal user needs to be verified with strong authentication methods, such as Microsoft Login ID, but it is usually not necessary to go further.
These typical users make up the majority of your users, up to 99.5%.
On the other hand, there are the high-impact privileged users: there are only a small number of them (typically around one user in 200), but the power and risks they bring are enormous because they can access your critical data, databases , infrastructures and networks.
Likewise, appropriate identity verification procedures should be applied. In the case of your high-impact users, you need access controls that go beyond strong identity-based authentication.
Enter Zero Trust: a borderless, passwordless, keyless, biometric future
Traditional solutions are not sufficient to connect PAM and IdM. They simply can’t handle the security you need to protect your critical assets. Nor can they offer effective, future-proof security controls for the access and identities of typical users and high-impact users.
The future of cybersecurity is borderless, passwordless, keyless, biometric and Zero Trust.
This means you need a future-proof cybersecurity model without implicitly trusted users, connections, applications, servers or devices. On top of that, you need an extra layer of security with passwordless, keyless and biometric authentication.
Learn the importance of implementing passwordless and keyless approach in your cybersecurity from the white paper provided by SSH Communications Security.