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• September 29, 2026
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Privileged accounts are how production changes: domain admins, firewall admins, database owners, break-glass credentials. They are also the shortest path through an environment once an attacker has a foothold.

Privileged access management puts those accounts behind a request, a session, and a record. Who asked, what they opened, and when the access closed. Without that record, an incident review is a set of interviews.

If you cannot say who used a privileged account last Tuesday, you do not have control of the account. You have a shared password.

Algosystems treats PAM as part of the same operating picture as monitoring and vulnerability management: fewer standing privileges, sessions that can be reviewed, and an owner for every exception.