What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?

Privileged Access Management (PAM) with PingOne Privilege provides organizations with a modern solution to control, monitor, and secure access to critical resources. It ensures secure just-in-time access through dynamic permissions, centralized policy enforcement, and strong device and user identity, helping organizations reduce risk and meet regulatory requirements.

Core capabilities of PAM

PingOne Privilege provides the following core capabilities for effective privileged access management:

Centralized management of privileged access for cloud and on-premises resources
Just-in-time (JIT) access with temporary, auto-expiring credentials
Fine-grained policy enforcement and least-privilege access controls
Credential lifecycle automation and rotation
Strong device and user identity verification
Comprehensive audit logging and activity monitoring
Support for both human and workload (machine) identities

PAM before and after PingOne Privilege

Assignment	Before PingOne Privilege	After PingOne Privilege
AWS, GCP, and Azure roles	Roles permanently assigned through identity provider. Administrators must manually manage role life cycles on an ad-hoc basis. Roles might have excessive permissions. Identities might inherit incorrect permissions. Access reviews take significant time.	Automatic and manual JIT access. Least-privileged roles. Save time in access reviews.
Custom roles, permissions, and policies	Time-consuming to implement. Requires significant expertise. Requires continual maintenance.	Automated. Leverages cloud native APIs.
SSH, DB access controls	Requires many static credentials that must be managed. Creating, rotating, revoking, and tracking credentials is expensive. Employees might share credentials, creating security risks.	No static credentials. Passwordless solution. Access using native tools.
Kubernetes cluster	Complex systems of roles and permissions are difficult to manage. Lack of granular controls.	JIT granular access control.
Cloud CLI (AWS, GCP, Azure)	Long-standing static credentials.	JIT access with no static credentials and native tools.
Approval process	Policy construction and review are complex. Access reviews are time-consuming. IAM teams are backlogged with lots of tickets.	Automated. Users don’t have to worry about cloud syntax for policy creation. Decentralized approval system.

Assignment

Before PingOne Privilege

After PingOne Privilege

AWS, GCP, and Azure roles

Roles permanently assigned through identity provider.

Administrators must manually manage role life cycles on an ad-hoc basis.

Roles might have excessive permissions.

Identities might inherit incorrect permissions.

Access reviews take significant time.

Automatic and manual JIT access.

Least-privileged roles.

Save time in access reviews.

Custom roles, permissions, and policies

Time-consuming to implement.

Requires significant expertise.

Requires continual maintenance.

Automated.

Leverages cloud native APIs.

SSH, DB access controls

Requires many static credentials that must be managed.

Creating, rotating, revoking, and tracking credentials is expensive.

Employees might share credentials, creating security risks.

No static credentials.

Passwordless solution.

Access using native tools.

Kubernetes cluster

Complex systems of roles and permissions are difficult to manage.

Lack of granular controls.

JIT granular access control.

Cloud CLI (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Long-standing static credentials.

JIT access with no static credentials and native tools.

Approval process

Policy construction and review are complex.

Access reviews are time-consuming.

IAM teams are backlogged with lots of tickets.

Automated.

Users don’t have to worry about cloud syntax for policy creation.

Decentralized approval system.