StrongDM CEO Tim Prendergast explains the concept of Zero Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM) and provides the core principles of Zero Trust, emphasizing the importance of never implicitly trusting any user or device and always verifying every user action with fine-grained access control.
Zero Trust PAM means that end users and security teams both get exactly what they want, is not mutually exclusive to have security and productivity in the same technology.
Zero Trust PAM is the concept that you're doing continuous verification and authorization against every action that's happening in a privileged session.
In the old world, PAM was about, can I give you this password?
And not to log in and be administrator In the new world, it's very much about can I verify and authorize each and everything you want to do based on every piece of data I have on?
And that can be from how you authenticated where you are in the world geographically.
Do I trust the machine you're coming from and is it a corporate owned device or not?
Can I understand the action you're gonna take and the implications on it?
So if you're querying data from a database, maybe it's okay to run a report, but it's not okay to download the entire credit card database, right?
Those are the kinds of considerations Zero Trust PAM makes at each and every action point, and it gives an unprecedented amount of control for organizations to prevent unsanctioned actions from happening.
The nice thing about Zero Trust PAM is while Legacy PAM focused on rotation of credentials and storing passwords, Zero Trust PAM is doing all those things, but also preparing the bridge to get you to a world where everything's passwordless.
And that's a huge differentiator that Futureproofs customers as technology's moving them into a new era where passwords just aren't relevant anymore.
