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Safeguard - Modern PAM to secure your enterprise

Privileged access is where most breaches begin. Human admins, non-human identities, and AI agents now exist in every environment, creating more privileged identities than most organizations have mapped, with most running with more access than they need.

Safeguard gives you control before attackers find the gaps. Vault credentials, monitor every session, detect threats before they become incidents, across every system, application, and cloud environment, with just-in-time access at the core.

Safeguard PASM: Privileged Access & Session Management

MODERN PAM — OUR FLAGSHIP PLATFORM

Safeguard PASM is a Modern PAM platform that delivers three deeply integrated capabilities — privileged password vaulting, session management, and behavioral analytics in one PAM solution. Every privileged identity across your environment — human administrators, service accounts, machine workloads, and AI agents — discovered, secured, recorded, and analyzed, with just-in-time access at the core.

Privileged Passwords

Discover · Vault · Manage

  • Discovery and onboarding
  • Credential vaulting and rotation
  • Service accounts, SSH keys & API keys
  • DevOps secrets and cloud credentials
  • Automated workflow engine
  • Just-in-time access controls
  • Role-based access management

Privileged Sessions

Control · Monitor · Record

  • Full session audit, recording and replay
  • Real-time alerting and blocking
  • Protocol-level proxy enforcement
  • Full-text search with OCR
  • Transparent mode — no workflow changes
  • Works standalone or alongside any vault
  • Continuous session authentication

Privileged Analytics

Detect · Analyze · Respond

  • Behavioral anomaly detection
  • Keystroke and mouse movement biometrics
  • Screen content and command analysis
  • Risk-ranked alert prioritization
  • Automated session termination
  • SIEM integration
  • Machine learning — no predefined rules

Safeguard PASM capabilities for Modern PAM

Just-in-time privilege management

Grant privilege only as needed to minimize attack surface and enforce Zero Trust.

Centralized privileged access management

Manage privileged accounts, credentials, and commands through a single policy engine.

Access brokering for every identity

Broker temporary, scoped privileged access for human and non-human identities.

Account and machine identity discovery and onboarding

Automatically discover and onboard privileged accounts across systems and cloud.

Credential vaulting and rotation

Vault and manage privileged credentials to eliminate secrets sprawl.

Session management, monitoring, recording, and auditing

Record and audit every privileged session with alerting and continuous authentication.

Role-based administration and policy management

Set granular role-based controls and enforce them consistently across all users.

Robust protection across every environment

EXTEND YOUR PAM COVERAGE

Safeguard PASM is the core platform. Extend coverage with targeted solutions for privilege elevation, endpoint control, remote access, and workforce password management.

PEDM
for Windows (PMW)

Application privilege management and endpoint least-privilege enforcement on Windows systems. Elevate or restrict application rights by policy — without exposing full admin credentials.

  • Centralized privileged access enforcement
  • Role-based policy management
  • Just-in-time privilege management
  • Access brokering for users and machines
for Unix (PMU)

Centralizes control over privileged commands on Unix and Linux — enabling least-privilege enforcement and SUDO policy management without exposing root credentials.

  • Centralized privileged access enforcement
  • Session monitoring and recording
  • Role-based policy management
  • Just-in-time privilege management
Authentication Services (SAS)

Integrates Unix, Linux and Mac OS X into Active Directory — extending AD compliance and security with centralized authentication and single sign-on for non-Windows systems.

  • Active Directory bridge for non-Windows
  • Consolidate identities and enforce separation of duties
  • Extend Group Policy to Unix/Linux/Mac
  • Single sign-on across platforms
…for Sudo

Centralizes management of sudoer policy files with keystroke logging of all sudo-executed activities and detailed access rights reporting.

  • Centralized sudoers policy management
  • Keystroke logging of all sudo activities
  • Access rights and activity reporting
SaaS
One Identity Safeguard On Demand

Full-strength PASM — all capabilities including machine identity vaulting — delivered as SaaS. Password safe, session management, and advanced analytics, fully managed in the cloud.

  • Full PASM platform capabilities in the cloud
  • Human and machine identity coverage
  • Meet compliance requirements
  • No infrastructure to manage
Remote Access
Remote PAM (RPAM)

Agentless remote access for contractors and vendors — no VPN required. Extend secure, monitored privileged access to third parties without traditional remote access overhead.

  • Agentless remote access — no VPN required
  • Secure third-party and vendor access
  • Full session monitoring and recording
Workforce
Workforce Password Manager (WPM)

Enterprise password vault for workforce credentials — reduces shadow IT and reuse risk across your organization.

  • Enterprise credential vault
  • Reduce shadow IT and reuse risk
  • Business user password management

One Identity Safeguard Products

Safeguard for Privileged Passwords

Safeguard for Privileged Passwords automates, controls and secures the process of granting privileged credentials with role-based access management and automated workflows. The user-centered design of Safeguard for Privileged Passwords means a reduced learning curve. Plus, the solution enables you to manage passwords from anywhere and using nearly any device. The result is a solution that secures your enterprise and gives your privileged users a new level of freedom and functionality.

Key Features
  • Quick Discovery and onboarding of assets
  • Automated workflow engine
  • Approve passwords from anywhere
  • Full REST API
  • Free personal password vault for business users

Safeguard for Privileged Sessions

Safeguard for Privileged Sessions enables you to control, monitor and record privileged sessions of administrators, remote vendors and other high-risk users. Content of the recorded sessions is indexed to make searching for events and automatic reporting simple so you can easily meet your auditing and compliance requirements. In addition, Safeguard for Privileged Sessions serves as a proxy, and inspects the protocol traffic on the application level and can reject any traffic that violates the protocol – thus it is an effective shield against attacks.

Key Features
  • Full session audit, recording and replay
  • Real-time alerting and blocking
  • Initiate workflows or deploy in transparent mode with no changes to users
  • Full text search including Optical Character Recognition
Safeguard for Privileged Analytics

Safeguard for Privileged Analytics

Safeguard for Privileged Analytics monitors questionable behaviors and uncovers previously unknown threats from inside and outside of your organization. By using user behavior analytics technology, Safeguard for Privileged Analytics detects anomalies and ranks them based on risk so you can prioritize and take appropriate action -- and ultimately prevent data breaches.

Key Features
  • Pattern-free analysis to detect unknown bad behaviors
  • Full content analyzation, including screen content, issued commands and windows titles
  • Use keystroke dynamics and mouse movement analysis to help identify breaches
  • Reduce alert noise by categorizing alerts by risk and deviation levels
One Identity Safeguard On Demand

One Identity Safeguard On Demand

One Identity Safeguard On Demand is a SaaS-delivered solution that combines a secure password safe, session management and monitoring, and advanced threat detection and analytics - all fully managed in the cloud.

Unlock full-strength PAM with the convenience of the cloud.

  • Reduce the impact of potential security breaches
  • Meet compliance requirements
  • Identify and stop risky behavior and unusual activity
Safeguard Authentication Services

Safeguard Authentication Services

Integrate Unix, Linux and Mac OS X in Active Directory, while extending the compliance and security of Active Directory to your enterprise using Safeguard Authentication Services. This solution creates an Active Directory Bridge enabling users to log on to non-Windows systems using their Active Directory credentials. With centralized authentication and single sign-on, your organization can improve operational efficiencies and achieve compliance with cross-platform access control.

Key Features
  • Consolidate identities and enforce separation of duties
  • Extend Windows Group Policy to non-Windows systems
  • Leverage existing investments in infrastructure and skills
  • Single sign-on for Unix, Linux and Mac
Safeguard for Sudo

Safeguard for Sudo

Sudo has a proven history of delivering value; however, management of sudo can be cumbersome. With One Identity Safeguard for Sudo, you can centralize management of sudoer policy files. Easily generate reports on sudoer access rights and activities, and enable keystroke logging of all activities performed through sudo.

Key Features
  • Centralized management of the sudoers policy file
  • Keystroke logging of all sudo activities
  • Access rights and activity reporting for sudo
  • Leverage existing investments in infrastructure and skills

Key Benefits - Why organizations choose Safeguard

Control every path to privilege

Eliminate standing access for humans and machines alike — granting privilege only when needed, only to the right identity, and automatically revoking it. Every path. Every time.

Meet audit and compliance requirements

Complete, indexed session recordings and cryptographically signed audit trails across all identity types — human and machine — ready for any compliance framework, on demand. 

Happy admins. No new tools.

Privileged users keep their familiar tools. Compliance and least-privilege enforcement happen invisibly — security doesn't come at the cost of productivity.

PLATFORM CAPABILITIES - What Safeguard does

Discover

Automate discovery of privileged accounts, service accounts, SSH keys, API keys and machine credentials on hosts, in directories and across your cloud environment

Secure

Vault privileged passwords, secrets and machine credentials in a hardened appliance — eliminating hardcoded credentials and secrets sprawl

Record

Record all session activity down to the keystroke, mouse movement and windows viewed — for every human and machine session

Monitor

Real-time traffic monitoring backed by automated actions — including automated session termination when anomalous behavior is detected 

Audit

All activity — human and machine — captured, indexed and stored in time-stamped, cryptographically signed files for forensics and compliance 

Review

Play back or search any recorded activity or event, including full situational context, across all session types
 

FAQ

Privileged access management (PAM) is an identity security solution that protects organizations from cyberthreats by monitoring, detecting and preventing unauthorized privileged access to critical resources to enhance cybersecurity posture.
Privileged accounts are prime targets for cyber attacks due to their extensive access rights. A breach of privileged accounts can lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, financial losses and damage to an organization's reputation. PAM helps mitigate these risks by enforcing strict access controls, monitoring privileged activity and facilitating accountability. This proactive approach significantly reduces the likelihood and impact of security incidents related to privileged access.
A modern, comprehensive PAM solution should include features such as password management (including secure storage, rotation and retrieval), session monitoring and recording, privilege elevation, multi-factor authentication (MFA), integration with other security tools, and audit and compliance capabilities.
PAM enhances security by enforcing the principle of least privilege, ensuring that users and systems have only the minimum level of access required to perform their tasks. It also enables organizations to implement role-based access control (RBAC), just-in-time (JIT) privileged access and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for added layers of security.
Yes, PAM solutions can seamlessly integrate with other security tools such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions, cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms, and vulnerability assessment tools. This integration not only enhances an organization’s overall security posture but also facilitates centralized monitoring and management of privileged access.
PAM solutions provide audit logs, reporting capabilities, and automated access reviews. These features help organizations meet regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA and SOX. By maintaining detailed records of privileged access activities, PAM solutions enable organizations to demonstrate compliance during audits and regulatory assessments.
Best practices for implementing PAM include regularly reviewing and updating privileged access policies and procedures, conducting security training and awareness programs for employees, implementing least privilege and role-based access controls, and regularly assessing the organization's security posture through penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.
PAM aligns with the Zero Trust security model by enforcing strict access controls and adhering to the principle that no one, whether inside or outside the organization, should be trusted by default. By implementing PAM solutions, organizations can embrace a least privilege approach and deploy just-in-time access controls to minimize the risk of privileged access abuse within the Zero Trust framework.
The benefits of using a PAM solution include an overall improved security posture, reduced risk of data breaches and insider threats, enhanced compliance with regulatory requirements, centralized management and monitoring of privileged access, and increased operational efficiency through the automation of access management tasks.
Organizations can kickstart PAM implementation by conducting a thorough assessment of their current privileged access management practices and security posture, identifying critical assets and privileged accounts, evaluating PAM solutions that best fit their needs, and developing a phased implementation plan with clear goals and milestones. It's also essential to involve key stakeholders from IT, security and compliance departments in the planning and implementation process to ensure a collaborative and holistic PAM adoption.

Resources

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