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Each of these challenges alone, not to mention the incremented impact of all of them combined, materially degrades the actual protection a PAM solution can provide. Despite all the investment and efforts, there are still islands of unprotected administrative access that adversaries can leverage to their favor.

In plain words: every unprotected admin access – regardless if it’s a service account, shadow admin, an admin that bypasses the PAM, or access to the PAM itself – is a likely target for threat actors that seek to abuse in lateral movement and ransomware spread attacks.

Let’s look at the options organizations have at their disposal today to confront these challenges.

T he Unfortunate End Result: PAM Box but not PAM Protection