Operlity Privileged Access Management gives IT, infrastructure and security teams a controlled way to reach critical systems — time-bound access, approved under policy, brokered in the browser, and recorded as evidence. The privileged credential never leaves the vault, and never reaches the user.
Privileged accounts are the ones an attacker wants and an auditor asks about. Most organizations still manage them like this.
Administrator, root and service accounts stay privileged every hour of every day, whether or not anyone is using them — so a single compromised session is a compromised estate.
Domain admin and root passwords sit in spreadsheets, password managers and team wikis. When something changes on a server, the account name tells you nothing about who was actually at the keyboard.
Vendors, contractors and managed service providers connect to production with credentials that were issued once and never reviewed.
Logs show that an account connected. They rarely show what was typed, changed, copied or removed — which is exactly what an auditor, an incident responder or a regulator asks for.
Credentials go unchanged for years because rotating them safely means coordinating every system, script and person that depends on them.
Break-glass exists as an informal practice — a known password, an offline note — used under pressure and reviewed by nobody.
Six connected controls, from onboarding a target to sealing the evidence.
Onboard servers, network devices, databases and appliances as governed targets with owners, sensitivity classification and group structure. Access policy is attached to the target, not remembered by an individual.
Privileged credentials are held in the Operlity Credential Vault and are never displayed again after onboarding. The platform stores only a reference and safe lifecycle metadata — never the secret — and rotates credentials on a policy you define, verifying the target after every change.
Eligibility is separated from access. Being eligible for a target means a user may request privilege; it does not grant it. Activation creates a short-lived grant scoped to a specific subject, target, protocol, duration and purpose, and it expires on its own.
Every activation is evaluated against multi-factor assurance, separation of duties, schedule, requested duration, target sensitivity, risk context and approval requirements. Approvals route to authorized approvers with thresholds and timeouts. Where a mandatory control cannot be evaluated, the request fails closed.
Approved users get an interactive RDP, SSH or VNC session in the browser — no client agent, no VPN, no credential. The credential is retrieved server-side and injected into the session broker at launch. Clipboard, file transfer, drive and device redirection, idle timeout, session duration and concurrency limits are enforced per target sensitivity.
Sessions are recorded according to policy and sealed with integrity metadata so recordings stand up as evidence. Security operations can watch active sessions, terminate them, revoke a grant before expiry, and search recorded evidence — without ever gaining access to the underlying credentials.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Privileged target onboarding | Register targets and target groups with owner, sensitivity, supported protocols and access policy, under separation-of-duties controls |
| Credential vaulting | Store privileged credentials in a hardened vault with tenant-isolated paths and policy-scoped access; secrets are never displayed after creation and never returned to the browser |
| Credential rotation | Policy-driven rotation by credential type and target, with post-rotation verification and rollback to a known-good value on failure |
| Just-in-time privileged access | Time-bound grants with purpose, justification and automatic expiry — replacing permanent administrative rights |
| Approval workflows | Multi-stage, threshold-based approvals with delegation, timeout and cancellation handling, driven by the Operlity workflow engine |
| Browser-based session brokering | Agentless RDP, SSH and VNC sessions delivered through a single-use, short-lived session handle |
| Session protocol controls | Per-target enforcement of clipboard, file transfer, drive and device redirection, idle timeout, maximum duration and concurrent session limits |
| Session recording and evidence | Recorded privileged sessions with integrity hashing, retention policy and chain-of-custody metadata for audit and investigation |
| Live session oversight | View active privileged sessions and terminate them immediately, with the reason and outcome recorded |
| Break-glass access | Separately governed emergency access with strong authentication, bounded scope and duration, immediate alerting and mandatory post-event review |
| Privileged access audit trail | Every eligibility, request, approval, activation, credential operation, session and evidence access recorded with full correlation |
Restriction and review of privileged access rights, unique attribution of administrative activity, least privilege and time-bound elevation, credential protection and rotation, and retained evidence of privileged sessions — mapped to your framework of record rather than assembled by hand before every audit.
Deploy in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid model, in the environment your critical infrastructure already lives in. The credential vault and session broker are packaged and managed as part of the product, with customer-controlled key custody and documented backup and recovery procedures.
PAM shares identity, tenant context, roles and authentication assurance with Operlity Identity Access Management. There is no second directory to reconcile and no gap between who someone is and what they are allowed to elevate to.
Users get a session, not a secret. Credentials are retrieved server-side at launch and injected into the broker, so there is nothing to copy, screenshot, forward or reuse after the session ends.
An approval decision does not by itself open a session. Operlity re-validates the grant, assurance level, scope and expiry immediately before launch, so nothing that changed between approval and connection is quietly ignored.
If a mandatory authorization, vault, broker, recording or durable-audit control is unavailable, access is denied rather than downgraded. Privilege is never granted on a degraded control path.
Recordings carry integrity metadata and chain-of-custody state, and evidence access is itself governed and recorded — so what you hand an auditor or an investigator is defensible.
Privileged activity feeds directly into your compliance, audit and cyber risk programs on the Operlity platform, turning privileged session data into control evidence instead of another export to chase.