Privileged access management (PAM) is an identity security solution that helps protect organizations against cyberthreats by monitoring, detecting, limiting and preventing unauthorized privileged access to critical resources. PAM works through a combination of people, processes, and technology and gives you visibility into who is using privileged accounts and what they are doing while they are logged in. Limiting the number of users who have access to administrative functions increases system security while additional layers of protection mitigate data breaches by threat actors.