No more standing admin rights
Vaulting, just-in-time access, session recording and credential rotation - powered by Securden Unified PAM.
Vaulting, just-in-time access, session recording and credential rotation - powered by Securden Unified PAM.
Privileged accounts are the master keys to your environment, domain admins, database owners, root access on production servers, service accounts nobody remembers creating. A single compromised privileged credential doesn't cause a contained incident; it gives an attacker the same authority your most trusted administrator has. That's why privileged access management is one of the highest-leverage controls a security programme can implement.
Vinca Cyber's PAM practice discovers, vaults and governs privileged access across your infrastructure, bringing the same 360° Cyber Resilience approach we've applied since 2017, powered by our partnership with Securden.
Privileged access management is the discipline of controlling, monitoring and auditing accounts that hold elevated permissions, who can use them, when, for how long, and what they did with that access. It's related to but distinct from general IAM: standard identity and access management governs everyday user access to applications, while PAM deals specifically with the small number of accounts that could cause catastrophic damage if misused.
The terms PIM (Privileged Identity Management) and PAM are often used interchangeably; in practice PIM tends to emphasise managing the identities themselves, while PAM covers the broader control of how privileged access is granted and used.
Phased privileged access control - vault the highest-risk accounts first, then expand.
Finding and consolidating privileged identities and service accounts scattered across your environment into a centralised, encrypted vault.
Automated password rotation so shared admin credentials stop living in spreadsheets and password managers.
Elevated permissions granted for a defined window and automatically revoked, rather than standing admin rights held indefinitely.
Full audit trail of privileged sessions, providing the end-to-end visibility auditors and regulators increasingly expect.
Removing local admin rights from endpoints while still allowing users to run what they legitimately need.
Evaluation, rollout and tuning, including migration from legacy platforms.
The problems we find are consistent across environments. Shared administrator credentials circulated by email or held in a team spreadsheet, with no record of who used them when. Service accounts created for a one-off integration years ago, still holding domain admin rights and a password that has never been rotated. Departing employees whose standard user account was disabled promptly while their privileged access lingered. Third-party vendors granted standing remote access rather than time-boxed sessions. And local administrator rights handed to users because a single application once needed them. Each of these is individually understandable and collectively how most serious breaches escalate.
Identify every privileged and service account across your environment, including the ones nobody documented.
These programmes are designed to be operated together. If this page is the strand you need first, the others are usually next.