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Privileged Access Management as a Service (PAMaaS) is a crucial identity asset for organizations, offering all the benefits of a strong PAM implementation.
It does this without extra internal resources, allowing for a quicker response.
Implementing PAM can prove a burden, especially when it come to infrastructure setup. This is where PAM-as-a-Service comes to the rescue.
What you’ll find in this article.
- What is Pam as a Service (PAMaaS)?
- SaaS vs IaaS vs PAMaaS model.
- PAM vs. PAMaaS.
- Pam In the Cloud vs For the Cloud.
- Benefits of PAM-as-a-Service.
What is Pam as a Service (PAMaaS)?
PAMaaS is a cloud service with all updates running automatically while ensuring complete transparency for the IT department.
This means there’s need to further task your security and business stakeholders alike.
In short, PAMaaS is no different from other SaaS.
An outsourced model means a third party vendor provides security solutions to create, manage, and monitor activity on your privileged accounts as part of a cyber security program.
This acts like an extra layer of protection against most security breaches.
It also provides customers with risk mitigation security solutions that don’t require managing additional infrastructure while eliminating the hands-on management required when using on-premises PAM.
This also frees up the time of your security professionals.
PAMaaS can help IT Managers apply the privileged access management best practices effectively across the organization to secure most security breaches.
SaaS vs IaaS vs PAMaaS
A few quick notes about how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
- SaaS is a security model that provides access to applications over the internet or cloud.
- IaaS is also a security model that branches into on-prem devices or cloud-based services.
With PAMaaS, all the benefits of SaaS and IaaS merge into your PAM solution.
It uses SaaS to deploy third-party privileged credentials management (privileged access management PAM), while IaaS is used to store and manage credentials and other data.
PAM vs. PAMaaS for security and business stakeholders
Privileged Access Management is used to track, handle, and control user and privileged accounts.
Some companies prefer the hands-on approach and might have the necessary resources to implement the PAM on premise model. But, when comparing the two solutions there are a few things worthy of notice, especially where breaches are concerned.
Almost all security breaches involve a faulty cyber security program, that doesn’t take into account the importance of identity management.
1) Cloud native
With PAMaaS, the ops move to the cloud rather than being installed on premise. For this to work, a relay referenced on the centralized server is deployed closer to resources.
Once implemented, no extra installation is required.
2) Financial advantages
Allows for better predictability of costs and spreads them over time.
3) Increased flexibility
Provides flexibility for external access of privileged users and a guaranteed secure connection.
Pam In the Cloud vs. for the Cloud
Another aspect security and business stakeholders must make is the one between PAM in the cloud and PAM for the cloud.
The first one replaces on-premises PAM infrastructure altogether with cloud-based architecture.
PAM in the cloud is a PAMaaS component. Many service providers using a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud service.
PAM for the cloud doesn’t refer to a cloud-based Privileged Access Management solution. It means the solution is used for cloud-based applications.
Benefits of PAM-as-a-Service
Security teams and organizations want to reduce costs and improve computing strength while addressing the issue of insufficient resources.
PAMaaS can also cut down the additional costs incurred by implementing security solutions that are disparate.
This makes managing on-premises infrastructure difficult.
We already mentioned that PAMaaS takes the weight off the infrastructure management. Let`s quickly go through what else this solution brings to the table.
- Rapid implementation and quick, adaptable risk reduction for your organization.
- A simplified solution for safely storing credentials.
- Isolates and supervises sessions.
- Defend against techniques that enemies use to tap into privileged accounts.
- Helps companies enforce a robust privileged access management program.
Privileged Accounts Management with Heimdal®
PAM is an essential link in cybersecurity for companies and administrations, which must be able to monitor but also trace actions made by privileged users who can impact the security of the system.
Our Privileged Access Management solution stands out through the following characteristics:
- When used together with our Nex-Gen Antivirus, it becomes the only software that automatically de-escalates user rights, in the event threats are detected on the machine.
- A very smooth approval/denial flow, as well as flexibility when it comes to escalating or deescalating user rights.
- Various characteristics such as AD group rights, escalation period customization, local admin rights removal, session tracking, system files elevation blocking, to name a few.
- Lightweight and stunning interface giving you complete control over the user’s elevated session. Approve or deny from the dashboard or on the go right from your mobile device.
- Advanced data analytics that will help investigate incidents and perform regular security checkups. Obtain graphic-rich reports on hostname details, average escalation duration, users or files escalated, files or processes ran during escalation, and more.
PAM and Application Control
Further, you can add our Application Control module into the mix, and you will be able to perform application execution approval or denial or live session customization to further ensure business safety.
Heimdal® Privileged Access Management
- Automate the elevation of admin rights on request;
- Approve or reject escalations with one click;
- Provide a full audit trail into user behavior;
- Automatically de-escalate on infection;
In Conclusion
As our CEO, Morten Kjaersgaard, wrote it best
A cybersecurity strategy is an organizational plan designed to reduce cyber risks and protect its assets from cyber threats. (…) An efficient cyber security strategy focuses on the appropriate tools and procedures for proactively identifying, categorizing, and reducing cyber threats.
Privilege Access Management is an essential cybersecurity strategy that relies on using authentication and authorization to protect sensitive data from falling in the hands of cybercriminals. However, PAM requires infrastructure, resources and most of all, budget.
If one of these three is insufficient, it doesn`t mean that your organization cannot benefit from a strong PAM solution, but rather that PAM as a Service is better suited for your needs.
By acquiring a PAMaaS model you will not need additional infrastructure or resources and the costs will be reduced over time, without diminishing the quality of the security strategy.
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