Enterprises Modernize Privileged Access Controls Amid Audits

Enterprises are overhauling privileged access management (PAM) through 2024–2026 to eliminate standing privileges and reduce breach risk, driven by SOC 2 audits, cyber insurance requirements, and cloud complexity. Vendors and approaches emphasize just-in-time access, session-level logging, agentless/vaultless deployments, and automated secrets rotation, with the PAM market projected at $4.44 billion by 2026 and privileged credentials implicated in 80% of breaches.