Too many vendors, not enough clarity?
Here's your shortcut through the PAM decision maze.
The PAM buyer’s guide for CxOs 2026 distills 26 years of experience and hundreds of enterprise deployments into a single, easy-to-use resource to help you:
- Understand the 10 must-have capabilities in a modern PAM platform.
- Avoid vendor traps like bloated add-ons, lock-in contracts, and hidden costs.
- Evaluate solutions with ready-to-use capability checklists.
- Align PAM with compliance mandates and cyber insurance requirements.
- Plan for a future-ready, scalable PAM strategy that evolves with your business.
Who should read it
CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs
IT security managers and IAM leaders
Compliance, audit, and governance officers
Procurement teams evaluating security investments
Capabilities that define the right PAM choice
Privileged account management
Automatically discover, vault, rotate, and audit every credential so secrets aren’t scattered, hard-coded, or left unmonitored.
Least privilege access and granular access controls
Grant only what’s needed with JIT elevation, command filtering, and policy-driven restrictions that shrink the attack surface.
Governance, management, and security for cloud entitlements
Continuously analyze and remediate cloud permissions across AWS, Azure, and GCP to prevent privilege sprawl in dynamic environments.
Secure remote access for employees and third-party users
Enable passwordless, VPNless sessions with session recording, granular controls, and vendor workflows to keep third-party access auditable.
Security and governance for non-human identities
Inventory, assign ownership, and automate life cycle actions for service accounts, tokens, keys, and AI agents so machines don’t become blind spots.
Real-time risk analysis to ensure Zero Trust privilege
Use dynamic trust scores and contextual signals (from devices, location, and behavior) to grant, adapt, or revoke access in real time.
Certificate life cycle management
Discover, renew, deploy, and alert on SSL/TLS and SSH certificates from a single console to avoid outages and security gaps.
Unified privileged user behavior analytics, auditing, and compliance reporting
Correlate privileged activity with UEBA to spot anomalies and produce compliance-ready audit trails on demand.
PAM for workload identities
Secure CI/CD pipelines, containers, and microservices with short-lived credentials injected at runtime without hard-coding.
Privileged task automation
Automate repetitive, high-risk admin tasks with approvals and full auditability to speed up operations and reduce human error.
The hunt for the best PAM platform stops with PAM360
Why settle for PAM that only ticks the boxes?
PAM360 goes beyond by packaging automation, orchestration, and developer-first integrations so security teams can stop fighting their toolset and start using it. Built-in task orchestration; seamless CI/CD and container integrations; RPA support; API-first workflows; and turnkey SIEM, ITSM, and IGA connectors mean your security posture improves without slowing delivery. Add native behavior analytics, ephemeral credentials for workloads, passwordless vendor access, and policy-guarded automation and you’ve got a platform that solves real operational headaches, not just compliance checkboxes, all in the click of a button.
