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Privileged access management

Privileged access management

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Privileged access management

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- [Instructor] Privileged accounts belonging to system engineers, application administrators, and other users in sensitive roles require special protection. Privileged access management solutions put special controls in place to secure these accounts and monitor the activities of privileged users. Let's talk about a few of the common components found in privilege access management solutions. Privileged account managers provide password vaulting capabilities. Password vaults are secure, encrypted credential management systems that store the passwords used to access sensitive accounts. The idea behind password vaults is that nobody knows the actual passwords to those privileged accounts. They're created automatically by the password vault, and when a user needs to log into a privileged account, they log into the password vault and then the password vault logs into the target system, providing just-in-time access to the credentials and their associated permissions. This maintains the…

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