GovPAM finds the privileged accounts in your estate, takes custody of their credentials, grants access for a set period and records what administrators and suppliers do with it. It runs on infrastructure you control, from a single Linux server to segmented and fully air-gapped networks, with no dependency on a vendor cloud.
Privileged access accumulates faster than inventories record it: cloned local administrator accounts, service accounts with domain rights, supplier VPN profiles that outlive the contract and passwords passed around by email. GovPAM starts by sweeping servers, databases and network devices for local and privileged accounts, and flags the ones that are new, changed or unmanaged. Enrolled accounts move into an encrypted vault, their secrets are rotated to policy, and from then on people connect through GovPAM using the vaulted credential instead of knowing it.
Access is granted as an authorization scoped to a person, an asset, an account and a protocol, for a set period. Users request what they need through self-service, approvers sign off in one or more steps, and critical systems can require a fresh approval at the moment of connection. Access gateways broker SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC, Telnet, database, Kubernetes and web application sessions, inject the credential, enforce command and data controls and record the session, so an auditor can replay what happened next to the approval that allowed it.
GovPAM is built for institutions that cannot hand privileged access to a vendor-operated service. It is agentless, installs on Linux in your own data center, private cloud or public-cloud tenancy, and runs fully air-gapped from an offline bundle. Credentials, recordings, audit records and keys stay in your environment. It pairs with KeyCare Pass, the password manager for everyday staff credentials, so privileged and non-privileged secrets are governed by products from the same family.
Scheduled sweeps find the local and privileged accounts that were never enrolled, so the vault starts from what exists on the estate rather than from what was documented.
Passwords, SSH keys and tokens are held encrypted at rest and used on a person’s behalf. Rotation runs on a schedule, on demand or when someone’s access ends.
Standing administrator rights give way to authorizations scoped to a user, asset, account and protocol, valid for a set period and then gone.
One controlled route replaces exposed RDP, shared jump servers and opened database ports. More than a dozen protocols are brokered through access gateways, from a browser or an engineer’s own tools.
Every brokered session is recorded and kept with its commands, file transfers and approvals, so evidence comes from the system that enforced the control.
Policy is enforced inside the session as well as at sign-in, limiting what an administrator can run, see and move.
GovPAM signs people in against the directory you already run and requires a second factor before any privileged session starts.
Routine administrative work runs as audited jobs across groups of servers instead of as interactive sessions on each one.
Departments are audited on whether they can account for privileged access. GovPAM finds unenrolled administrator and service accounts, vaults them, turns access into an approval request and records the session, with sign-in through Entra ID, Active Directory or LDAP and data kept inside the department’s own environment.
Closed networks need tools that run inside the enclave. GovPAM deploys air-gapped, keeps recordings and audit data inside it, requires approval at connection time for sensitive systems and separates programs or classifications into their own organizations.
Much OT equipment cannot run agents or take patches, and vendor engineers still need remote access. GovPAM brokers and records that access at a gateway placed in each segmented zone, time-bound and approved, without installing anything on the devices.
Banks get separation of duties enforced in the access path: multi-step approval for production, command controls and field masking in live sessions, and evidence for PCI DSS, DORA and SOC 2 testing. Clinical estates get pre-approved, recorded access through vaulted shared and emergency accounts, including for supplier engineers who are not in the directory.
GovPAM provides controls and evidence that help organizations meet these frameworks. Certification of your environment remains with your assessor.
No. Access gateways broker and record each session, and task workers connect to managed systems to run discovery, rotation and account verification, so nothing is installed on hosts, databases or network devices. That matters for OT equipment and appliances that cannot be patched or host software.
Yes. GovPAM installs from an offline bundle and runs entirely inside an isolated network, with no route to the vendor. Air-gapped deployments are fully licensed, with the arrangement agreed as part of the quote, and recordings, audit data and keys stay inside the enclave.
Suppliers sign in to GovPAM rather than to your network. Their access is limited to named systems and a set period, can require approval before each connection, and is recorded end to end. When the engagement ends the grant expires, and there is no VPN profile or directory account left behind.
Sessions run over SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC and Telnet in the browser, or through the SSH gateway from an engineer’s own terminal. Managed targets include Linux and Unix, Windows, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB and Redis, network devices, Kubernetes and web applications.
Start with a guided demo or an evaluation on your own infrastructure, run against your directory under a time-limited license with the same software you would deploy. A quote is built from the number of privileged users, the systems under management, the term, and the deployment and support you need, and partners in the UK and Europe, Australia and Africa handle local procurement and support.
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