Term · 4. Roles, Policies & Access Rights
Privileged Account Monitoring
Definition
Continuous oversight of privileged account activity — login events, command execution, session metadata, configuration changes. Often combined with Privileged Session Management for full visibility. Feeds SIEM and ITDR platforms for anomaly detection.
- Synonyms
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- Privileged User Behavior Monitoring
- PAM Activity Monitoring
- Application
- Regulatory: Gartner Magic Quadrant / Hype Cycle · NIST SP 800-63 (Digital Identity Guidelines) · SWIFT CSCF v2025
- Standards & regulations
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- Gartner
- NIST
- SWIFT
Related terms
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Privileged Session Management (PSM)
PAM capability that records, monitors, and analyzes sessions involving privileged credentials — SSH sessions to servers, …
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CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) (CMMC)
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Privileged Account Discovery
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Real-Time Privilege Adjustment
Dynamic modification of an identity's effective privileges based on real-time context — risk score, location, device pos …
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Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust Assessment (CARTA)
Gartner framework introduced 2017 — a security posture that continuously evaluates risk and adjusts trust assertions thr …
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Continuous Adaptive Trust
Authentication and authorization paradigm where trust is recomputed continuously throughout a session based on real-time …