Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Eliminates standing privileged credentials by granting temporary, ephemeral access to audit log infrastructure only when needed and for a limited duration. This minimizes the attack surface for unauthorized log tampering.

• Ephemeral Accounts: Credentials are created on-demand and automatically expire after the approved time window.
• Approval Workflows: Access requests trigger multi-party authorization, ensuring segregation of duties.
• Zero Standing Privileges: Reduces the risk of compromised credentials being used to alter or delete immutable audit trails.

Provides a DVR-like playback of every privileged session on servers managing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems and WORM storage. This creates an irrefutable record of administrative actions for forensic analysis.

• Command Auditing: Captures every shell command executed, enabling detection of malicious rm -rf or log truncation attempts.
• Video Playback: Records the full graphical or terminal session to provide context for suspicious activity.
• Searchable Metadata: Indexes sessions by user, command, and timestamp for rapid e-discovery and investigation.

Centralizes the storage of all secrets used to access audit infrastructure—including Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) private keys for digital signatures—in a hardened, encrypted vault. Automated rotation ensures compromised credentials become useless quickly.

• Automated Rotation: Programmatically resets passwords and keys for service accounts that manage log lifecycle management.
• Check-out/Check-in: Privileged credentials are never directly revealed to the human administrator.
• Application-to-Application Password Management (AAPM): Eliminates hard-coded credentials in scripts that aggregate logs for continuous auditing.

Enforces granular, policy-based control over which specific commands an administrator can execute on a system managing tamper-evident logging. This enforces the principle of least privilege, preventing unauthorized changes to logging configurations.

• Command Filtering: Allows cat and grep for log analysis but blocks vi or sed that could modify structured logging files.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Integrates with directory services to map job functions to specific audit system permissions.
• Sudo Replacement: Provides a centralized, audited alternative to Unix sudo for controlling privilege escalation.

Integrates User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) to baseline normal privileged behavior and alert on deviations that indicate a compromised administrator account or insider threat targeting audit integrity.

• Behavioral Baselines: Learns typical login times, command patterns, and access frequency for each privileged user.
• Risk Scoring: Assigns a dynamic risk score to each session; a high score can trigger automatic session termination or step-up authentication.
• Alert Correlation: Integrates with SIEM to correlate PAM alerts with other security events, identifying complex attack chains against data provenance systems.

Provides a single, hardened entry point for all privileged access to air-gapped or isolated audit networks, acting as a proxy that enforces authentication, authorization, and session recording without exposing management interfaces directly.

• Protocol Proxying: Native support for RDP, SSH, and database protocols to manage WORM storage and SIEM consoles.
• No VPN Required: Reduces the attack surface by eliminating the need for broad network-level access.
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Enforces strong, phishing-resistant MFA at the gateway before any connection to the audit infrastructure is established.

A security layer that intercepts and evaluates every command issued during a privileged session against a defined policy engine. Dangerous operations on audit log infrastructure—such as DROP TABLE, rm -rf /var/log/audit, or disabling logging daemons—can be blocked in real-time or require secondary approval before execution.

• Uses regex-based rules and semantic analysis of shell commands
• Prevents accidental or malicious destruction of immutable audit trails
• Generates alerts when blocked commands are attempted, flagging potential insider threats
• Integrates with UEBA systems to correlate command patterns with behavioral baselines