of organizations achieve full PAM coverage across all privileged accounts.
10%
only
As a result of these challenges,
Securing Privileged Access: From Blind Spots to Resilience
Low resilience to bypass
Admins often bypass PAM by checking out credentials and logging in directly, sometimes outside their access tier. Meanwhile, PAM itself is a high-value attack target—when compromised, it becomes a single point of failure, granting adversaries unlimited access to resources.
Inherent protection gaps
Some critical privileged accounts are not well-suited for PAM protection. A prominent example is service accounts that run essential processes, where password rotation can break, disrupting operations and causing significant damage.
Dependency on manual discovery
Before adding privileged users in the PAM solution, identity teams must first identify them. While some can be easily extracted from AD groups, discovering and tracking privileged activity of service accounts and users performing with privilege outside of admin groups is a time-consuming, manual process.
Complex and lengthy onboarding
PAM solutions are infamous for their long, painful onboarding process that can take months to years. There numerous operational and maintenance issues that cause a significant portion of PAM projects to never meet their full goals.
The key inhibitors holding back the security of privileged users
Inherent protection gaps
Some critical privileged accounts are not well-suited for PAM protection. A prominent example is service accounts that run essential processes, where password rotation can break, disrupting operations and causing significant damage.
of organizations achieve full PAM coverage across all privileged accounts.
10%
only
As a result of these challenges,
Low resilience to bypass
Admins often bypass PAM by checking out credentials and logging in directly, sometimes outside their access tier. Meanwhile, PAM itself is a high-value attack target—when compromised, it becomes a single point of failure, granting adversaries unlimited access to resources.
Complex and lengthy onboarding
PAM solutions are infamous for their long, painful onboarding process that can take months to years. There numerous operational and maintenance issues that cause a significant portion of PAM projects to never meet their full goals.
Securing Privileged Access: From Blind Spots to Resilience
Dependency on manual discovery
Before adding privileged users in the PAM solution, identity teams must first identify them. While some can be easily extracted from AD groups, discovering and tracking privileged activity of service accounts and users performing with privilege outside of admin groups is a time-consuming, manual process.
The key inhibitors holding back the security of privileged users