Control of privileged users, or Privileged Account Management (PAM) is a group of the solutions intended for implementation of monitoring and control of accounts of staff of IT divisions, system administrators, the staff of the outsourcing organizations, which are engaged in administration of infrastructure of the company, management of authentication and authorization of the specified employees, audit of the performed operations, access control and record of their sessions. In addition to an abbreviation of PAM for designation of control systems of privileged users, other names of this class of solutions meet, for example

• Privileged User Management (PUM),
• Privileged Identity Management (PIM),
• Privileged Access Management (PAM),
• Privileged Password Management (PPM),
• Privileged Account Security (PAS).

Solutions of the class Privileged Access Management are intended for risk reduction, the exclusive accounts connected with unauthorized use. At the same time not only accounts of the administrators (servers, network equipment, workstations) having access to management of IT infrastructure elements, but also business users who have access to confidential data of the company and also users who need changeable exclusive access, for the period of the project, for example belong to exclusive records.

• Privileged Access Management, PAM, solutions for management of exclusive access (world market)

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