Service Brief
Privileged accounts are the first thing an attacker goes looking for. Domain admins, service accounts, application-to-application credentials, break-glass logins — each one is a key to the environment, and most organizations hold far more of them than they can name. Without a structured program, that sprawl grows quietly until either a breach or an audit forces the issue into the open.
This service brief covers how AppliedIAM builds and runs privileged access management programs: the controls we put in place, how we sequence the work, and the outcomes teams see once standing privilege is gone. It is a short overview written to be shared with security leadership or brought into a budget conversation.
- Why privileged accounts remain the most-targeted path into an environment
- The controls a mature program puts in place, from vaulting through session oversight
- The systems we integrate with, from AD and Entra to SIEM, SOAR, and ITSM
- The business outcomes to expect, and whether your environment is a fit
The problems PAM solves
- Shared and standing admin accounts that nobody fully owns
- Service and app-to-app credentials hardcoded into scripts and pipelines
- Manual password rotation that quietly stops happening
- No record of what privileged users actually did once they were in
- Audit evidence assembled by hand, under deadline
What we put in place
- Vaulting and automated rotation for privileged credentials — human, service, and application-to-application
- Just-in-time elevation with approvals and time limits, so standing privilege goes away
- Session oversight, with recording and controls on risky commands
- Secrets management for applications, automation, and CI/CD pipelines
- Integrations with AD/Entra, IGA, ITSM, SIEM/SOAR, and your SaaS and on-prem applications
- Runbooks and evidence — documented processes, named owners, audit-ready artifacts
Who this is for
- Companies running shared or standing admin accounts today
- Teams moving toward just-in-time elevation and least privilege
- Organizations with SOX, HIPAA, or PCI DSS in scope
What to expect
- Scale with confidence as the environment grows
- Faster time to value from the platform you have already bought
- Lower day-to-day operating effort for your team
- Continuous improvement, rather than a one-off project that ages
- Around-the-clock readiness, if you would rather have it run for you
- Deep CyberArk and KeeperPAM expertise on tap
Want a read on your own environment?
Our engineers run a free, no-obligation audit — a focused review of where privileged access and governance are exposed today. Not ready for a call? Email us your setup and we’ll come back with a written take.