Typical IAM products don't adequately provide the level of security controls and
rigorous scrutiny that is needed to manage privileged accounts, said Wenzler. Administrator accounts require a different type of management that purpose-built, enterprise-grade PAM tools provide. This includes encrypting the passwords to prevent anyone from knowing or discovering what it is, integrating with a variety of applications, operating systems and devices to rotate and change the passwords on a regular basis, monitoring and logging activity down to the keystroke, and alerting the proper employees when some sort of unauthorized use of these critical credentials takes place. Modern PAM tools can accomplish all of this and more, and any organization with an IT infrastructure should implement some version of this to protect these types of accounts. http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/pam-solutions-critical-to-securing-privileged-access-06.html
