Secure admin, root, and break-glass credentials.
7 vendors · Last updated 5/30/2026
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PAM controls elevated access — admin accounts, root, secrets, and database credentials — through vaulting, session brokering, and just-in-time access.
CyberArk is the market-leading privileged access management (PAM) platform, providing credential vaulting, privileged session management, endpoint privilege management, and secrets management for enterprise security programs.
Teleport provides secure, audited access to SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and internal applications using short-lived certificates and RBAC — designed for engineering teams who need infrastructure access without static credentials.
1Password Business provides enterprise password and credential management for teams, with 1Password Secrets Automation extending to CI/CD secrets, developer vaults, and service account credentials.
BeyondTrust is an enterprise PAM platform providing privileged account management, privileged session management, endpoint privilege management, and secure remote access — a leading alternative to CyberArk.
Keeper Security provides enterprise password management, privileged access management (KeeperPAM), and secrets management for DevOps pipelines — with a strong focus on zero-knowledge architecture and compliance.
Saviynt is a cloud-native identity governance and administration platform combining IGA, privileged access management, and cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) in a single platform.
StrongDM provides a proxy-based infrastructure access management platform — without agents on target systems — giving engineering teams secure, audited access to databases, servers, Kubernetes, and internal applications.
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