Company
Date Published
Author
Shashwat Sehgal
Word count
526
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

A global technology company faced challenges with traditional Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions for securing SSH access to customer environments hosted on AWS, GCP, and Azure due to security risks, operational complexity, and compliance requirements. Legacy PAM solutions like Okta's ASA and others faced limitations such as high operational overhead, single points of failure, and lack of just-in-time access. To address these issues, the company adopted a next-generation PAM solution, P0, which features an agentless architecture leveraging cloud-native IAM APIs, expanded use cases for fine-grained access to services like S3 and Kubernetes, and improved governance for non-human identities. P0 also offers risk mitigation, governance automation, and seamless integration with developer tools like Slack and PagerDuty, enhancing security and streamlining operations. This transition highlights the growing importance of adopting modern, cloud-native PAM solutions to manage privileged access as cloud environments become increasingly complex.