PAM, or Privileged Access Management, is a focused part of identity security that deals with high-privilege accounts. These are the administrator accounts, IT staff, and other users who hold broad access to your systems.
Instead of a whole team sharing one admin login, PAM gives each person their own privileges, stores passwords in a secure vault, and logs what each one does. This matters because a compromised admin account is the worst kind of breach. If an attacker gets that, they can do nearly anything. PAM makes those accounts far harder to misuse.
