Idira® modernizes your PAM program with PAM as a Service. Implement our newest security controls and enjoy simplified management with automatic updates, significantly reducing your identity security risks and lowering operational costs.
The threat landscape has changed, the attack surface has expanded and compliance is evolving. AI has become a force multiplier for attackers, compressing the attack lifecycle and enabling parallelized targeting. A PAM program built for human-speed attackers can’t defend against AI-speed intrusions.
Increased Infrastructure and Costs
Increased Infrastructure and Costs
On-premises servers, infrastructure and components take time to upgrade, manage, and patch. Version lag creates Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures windows.
Standing Privileges Are a Liability
Standing Privileges Are a Liability
Standing access creates a permanent attack surface. Stolen credentials and persistent access drive the majority of breaches.
The On-Prem Burden
The On-Prem Burden
SaaS integrations and OAuth connections can go unmonitored and more tools mean more blind spots.
Identity Security Debt
Identity Security Debt
Privileges accumulate silently during role changes, creating a gap where risk builds and orphaned access becomes a primary breach vector.
SOLUTIONS
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation
Secure any human identity — from workforce users to cloud engineers — across your full infrastructure. Idira unifies vaulting, zero standing privileges and session isolation into a single enforcement experience to remove the credentials attackers reuse. Enhance your PAM program with the latest security features delivered as SaaS. Implement SaaS-based, AI-powered solutions and leverage the Identity Security Platform.
Enable Operational Efficiences
Scale adoption and maximize risk reduction by modernizing your PAM program with reduced cost for infrastructure and operational overhead.
Secure Your Digital Transformation
Centrally and natively secure privileged access for IT and cloud operations teams. Enable agentless, brokered access to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes. Support native CLI and console workflows with just-in-time entitlements that replace static, long-lived IAM roles.
Deliver Measurabe Cyber-Risk Reduction
Securely manage high-risk access across your IT estate with zero standing privileges or vaulted credentials in multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Secure, SOC 2 type 2 compliant services with a certified 99.95% SLA for uptime, and FedRAMP High certification.
Satisfy Evolving Audit and Compliance Requirements
Isolate and record every sensitive session across infrastructure and SaaS. AI-generated summaries surface anomalous commands in real time, stopping identity misuse before damage occurs.
SMART PAM CONTROLS
Migrating to the Idira Identity Security Platform
The Idira Identity Security Platform is built on the proven foundations of ZSP and
continuous identity controls. It’s also delivered as a cloud-native service with a managed migration path that eliminates risk to your production environment.
Ephemeral Access That Exists Only When Work Exists
Remove standing access entirely. Context-aware, ephemeral privileges are created for the duration of a task and destroyed automatically when work ends, leaving no dormant credentials for attackers to exploit.
Native, Agentless Access to Cloud and Kubernetes
Secure access to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes via native CLI and consoles. Use agentless session brokering and JIT entitlements to eliminate VPN and bastion dependencies while maintaining a full audit trail.
Remove Local Admin Rights Without Breaking Workflows
Secure the "first mile" of access by removing local administrator rights across Windows, macOS and Linux. Replace them with policy-based elevation to stop lateral movement and credential harvesting.
Isolate and Monitor Every Privileged Action
Broker and isolate privileged sessions across infrastructure and SaaS. AI-generated summaries surface anomalous commands in real time, closing the audit gap between authentication and action.
Automated Credential Management for Proven Defense
Protect critical system-level accounts with automated credential vaulting and rotation. Idira bridges traditional vaulting with JIT workflows, enabling a staged journey to a zero standing privilege model.
Identify & Stop Identity-Based Attacks in Real Time
Use native ITDR to analyze signals across the identity estate. Automatically terminate risky sessions or elevate authentication requirements when suspicious lateral movement or vault sweeping is detected.
Migration Path From Self-Hosted to Idira Security Platform
The Four-Phase Migration Process
Idira converges IAM, PAM and IGA into a single platform with a unified data model to eliminate the fragmentation attackers exploit. We secure every human identity from first authentication to the last privileged action.
Frequently asked questions about Idira Privileged Access Management (PAM) Migration from Self-Hosted to SaaS
Learn how Idira unifies IAM, PAM and IGA into a single platform to secure every human identity from first authentication to the last privileged action.
PAM modernization involves transitioning from legacy self-hosted vault infrastructure to a cloud-delivered Identity Security Platform. This shift eliminates the heavy operational burden of manual upgrades, patch management, and server maintenance. By migrating to SaaS, organizations reduce on-premises infrastructure hosts by up to 70% while ensuring continuous access to the latest security capabilities and automated threat protection. It enables security teams to shift focus from maintaining hardware to advancing zero trust architecture and mitigating identity risks.
Prepare: Architecture planning, current environment analysis, and prerequisite validation. Deploy: Tenant setup, identity connector configuration, and MFA deployment. Migrate: Secure data replication using disaster recovery vault data, encrypted transfer, connector re-registration, and password rotation. Optimize: Onboarding modern capabilities like Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) and Just-in-Time (JIT) access.
Modernizing PAM addresses critical vulnerabilities created by static credentials and version lag. Key benefits include: Reduced Infrastructure Overhead: Lower total cost of ownership by transferring backend management, scaling, and patching to the cloud platform. Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP): Replaces persistent administrator accounts with temporary, Just-in-Time elevation. Extended Cloud & Machine Coverage: Governs access across AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps pipelines, and non-human identities. Unified Compliance: Automated reporting for regulatory frameworks including PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIS2.
In a cloud-delivered model, responsibilities are clearly divided to optimize security and operations: Platform Provider Responsibility: Backend core services, including vault hosting, portal management, infrastructure scaling, continuous patching, and platform disaster recovery. Customer Responsibility: Managing lightweight connector servers within the local network, defining access governance policies, and onboarding privileged accounts. This model allows internal teams to maintain total policy control without managing infrastructure upkeep.
Modernization improves productivity by eliminating friction in access workflows. Developers and platform engineers access target systems natively via CLI, RDP, SSH, or kubectl with dynamic, short-lived credentials. Privileged access and secrets management extend seamlessly across CI/CD pipelines, managed K8s clusters, and elastic cloud workloads without jump server bottlenecks or manual overhead. By replacing static credentials with ZSP, engineering teams maintain velocity while security teams ensure centralized policy enforcement and complete audit visibility across hybrid environments.
Zero trust is structurally impossible without a unified identity layer. Idira delivers the foundation for zero trust by evaluating every access request against real-time context, enforcing least privilege and assuming breach through continuous session monitoring. By unifying the identity layer, Idira ensures that zero trust principles are enforced consistently from the first authentication to the last privileged action across cloud, SaaS and on-premises environments.
Privileged access management (PAM) is a security discipline that manages, controls and monitors elevated access to an organization’s most critical resources. While legacy PAM often focused only on IT admins, Idira establishes a next-generation identity security operating model that extends these enterprise-grade controls to every human identity that carries privilege — including developers, contractors and employees — securing them from first authentication to the last privileged action.
Vaulting involves storing sensitive credentials in a centralized, tamper-proof repository where they're encrypted and automatically rotated to prevent theft. Idira leverages these proven foundations and bridges them with modern just-in-time (JIT) and zero standing privilege (ZSP) workflows. This ensures that even for legacy applications that can't support modern federation, credentials are never handled by the user and are injected automatically at login to reduce the attack surface.
Fragmented tools were never a strategy. They were a patch job that created disconnected data models and policy engines. Attackers operate in the gaps between these silos, passing IAM controls while holding excessive entitlements that IGA hasn't reviewed. Consolidating these into Idira's unified operating model ensures discovery informs access control, and access control informs governance, creating a single continuous motion that stops identity-based attacks.
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