Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (2018 – 2022)

Gartner defines the privileged access management (PAM) market as tools that “discover, manage and govern privileged accounts on multiple systems and applications; control access to privileged accounts, including shared and emergency access; and monitor, record, audit and analyze privileged access, sessions and actions.”

PAM is often equated with Identity and Access Management (IAM), a similar practice. In order to qualify for inclusion in this quadrant, vendors must deliver a service that features the following characteristics:

• Tools to discover, map, and report any privileged accounts on multiple devices, applications, endpoints, and systems
• A hardened, secured, and highly available vault for storing secrets and credentials
• User interfaces to review privileged credentials
• Tools to automatically rotate and manage credentials for service, administrative, device, system, and application accounts
• Support for role-based administration including centralized policy management
• Reporting and analytics tools of privileged accounts

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