Standing access is an accumulated risk
Over-provisioned accounts, dormant identities, and unreviewed third-party credentials can quietly expand the attack surface between review cycles.
Manage session and privileged accounts with Wallix PASM
Enforce least privilege access, monitor and record every privileged session, while automating credential security across IT, OT, and cloud.
Why use Session and Privilege Accounts Solution?
Unrecorded sessions are undefendable
When privileged sessions are not fully recorded, security teams lose the reliable evidence needed to investigate incidents, validate actions, and support compliance.
Manual credential management scales the wrong way
As environments grow, practices such as hard-coded secrets and a lack of password rotation can increase operational effort while creating gaps, delays, and inconsistent enforcement.
Browser-based access sits outside most PAM perimeters
Many PAM architectures weren’t designed to cover SaaS consoles, cloud management portals, or web admin interfaces that carry the same privilege risk as RDP or SSH sessions.
Key Components
Four pillars. One Session & Privileged Account Management Solution
Complementary controls, each closing a distinct attack vector:
Access Management
Define and enforce who can access what, and under what conditions. Access Management applies least privilege and Just-in-Time access, so no identity carries more permission than the task requires, for longer than the task takes.
Session Management
Monitor privileged sessions in real time. Record every action with a complete metadata trail. Raise alarms on suspicious activity and terminate sessions before damage spreads — all without an agent on the target system.
Web Session Management
Extend full PAM controls to browser-based applications. Powered by Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), Web Session Manager applies the same rigour that governs RDP and SSH sessions to every web admin interface, SaaS console, and cloud management portal.
Password Management
Vault every credential centrally. Automate rotation. Eliminate hard-coded passwords and shared secrets — for human accounts, service accounts, and machine-to-machine communication. No credential should ever be managed manually or stored in clear text.
Multi-Factor Authentication
Verify identity at every critical access point, not only at the perimeter. Embedded directly into PAM workflows, with methods from push notification to hardware tokens for air-gapped OT environments, and audit logs to help evidence NIS2, DORA, and ISO 27001 compliance.
How does a Session & Privileged Account Management Solution work?
Select the topics most relevant to your organisation. We’ll tailor your demo with videos that match your security priorities.
Use Cases
Session & Privileged Account Management Solution: Where Is It Most Critical?
Every environment has a different exposure point. WALLIX covers them all.
Third-party & vendor access
Contractors need access — but you can't extend the same trust as employees. PAM gives you full visibility and control over every external session, with zero standing credentials.
DevOps & machine identities
Pipelines, scripts, and service accounts carry elevated privileges that are often invisible and unmanaged. PAM brings non-human credentials under the same control as human access.
OT & industrial environments
Operational technology is increasingly connected and increasingly targeted. WALLIX secures privileged access to SCADA, ICS, and industrial systems without changing how they operate.
Insider threat prevention
The most dangerous access is often already inside your perimeter. PAM limits what privileged users can do and creates a tamper-proof record when something goes wrong.
Cloud & hybrid environments
Privileged access sprawls across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS. WALLIX provides a single agentless control plane — available across AWS, Azure, GCP, and more.
Impact of a Session & Privileged Account Management Solution
Privileged Account Visibility
Session Activity
Session Activity
Credential Exposure
Web And Saas Access
Incident Response
Operational Overhead
Without PASM
Privileged Account Visibility No centralised inventory of who holds privileged accounts, on which systems, or when credentials were last rotated.
Session Activity Privileged sessions produce no reliable record. What was done, by whom, and on which system cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
Session Activity Privileged sessions produce no reliable record. What was done, by whom, and on which system cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
Credential Exposure Administrators handle passwords directly — hard-coded in scripts, shared across teams, stored outside any controlled environment.
Web And Saas Access Browser-based admin interfaces — cloud consoles, SaaS management portals — sit outside PAM controls entirely.
Incident Response When something goes wrong on a privileged session, investigation starts from nothing — no trail, no timestamps, no attribution.
Operational Overhead Credential management is manual — rotation requires touching each system individually, creating gaps and inconsistent enforcement.
With PASM
Privileged Account Visibility Every privileged account vaulted centrally — human, service, and machine-to-machine — with full rotation history and access records.
Session Activity Every session recorded with video playback, keystroke logging, and command capture. Every action is attributable and retrievable.
Session Activity Every session recorded with video playback, keystroke logging, and command capture. Every action is attributable and retrievable.
Credential Exposure Credentials injected automatically at session initiation. Users connect to target systems without ever seeing or handling the password.
Web And Saas Access Web sessions are governed under the same policy as RDP and SSH. No plug-ins, no infrastructure changes, no exceptions.
Incident Response Full session record available immediately — searchable, replayable, and structured for forensic review or compliance evidence.
Operational Overhead Rotation automated across all vaulted accounts on a defined schedule. No manual intervention required to maintain the baseline.
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FAQs
Frequently asked questions about Session & Privileged Account Management Solution
What is the difference between PAM and PASM ?
PAM — Privileged Access Management — is the broader discipline covering how organisations control, monitor, and audit privileged access. PASM — Privileged Account and Session Management — is a specific functional category within PAM focused on managing the accounts themselves and the sessions they open
Do I need an agent installed on every target system?
No. Agentless PAM solutions proxy privileged sessions through a central platform without deploying software on the systems being accessed — applicable across on-premises, cloud, and OT environments.
Can PAM cover web-based admin consoles and SaaS applications?
Yes, through Web Session Management — a capability that extends PAM controls to browser-based interfaces without plug-ins or changes to how users work. Sessions are recorded and governed by the same policies as RDP or SSH connections.
