Securden Endpoint Privilege Manager vs. 12Port

Securden Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM) enables enterprises to remove admin rights without impacting productivity across Windows, Mac, and Linux endpoints. It helps elevate applications for standard users and grants administrator privileges on a Just-in-Time (JIT) basis, eliminating standing privileges while ensuring uninterrupted user productivity. Organizations can enforce strong application control using allowlisting and blocklisting to prevent unauthorized or risky software execution while still enabling required business applications. Securden EPM supports on-demand application elevation and policy-based granular elevation control, allowing IT and security teams to precisely define which applications can run with elevated privileges and under what conditions. Privilege management continues even when endpoints are offline, ensuring protection for remote and traveling users. Temporary JIT local admin rights further minimize risk by granting elevation only when required and automatically revoking it afterward. The platform provides application usage tracking to help refine policies and optimize license usage, along with continuous monitoring of local administrator groups to prevent privilege creep and unauthorized privilege escalation. Built-in secure remote access enables IT helpdesk teams to troubleshoot endpoints without exposing credentials or granting permanent administrative access. Securden EPM also helps organizations meet compliance requirements including HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and NERC-CIP. A highly scalable architecture supports enterprise-wide deployments, while a wide array of integrations enables seamless adoption within existing IT ecosystems. The solution also integrates tightly with ITSM platforms such as JIRA, GLPI, Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Freshdesk, allowing privilege elevation requests to be approved or rejected dynamically through existing service workflows, improving governance while maintaining operational efficiency.

12Port is a modern privileged access management platform built to secure privileged human, vendor, machine, and AI identities across enterprise infrastructure. The system uses an agentless architecture, allowing organizations to broker administrative sessions without installing software on every managed endpoint. Privileged users authenticate to 12Port, which retrieves the required credential from a secure vault, injects it into the destination session, and prevents the user from seeing the secret directly. Supported access methods include SSH, RDP, PowerShell, VNC, Telnet, HTTP, and other protocols commonly used for system administration. Just-in-time access, approval workflows, and zero-standing-privilege controls help reduce persistent administrative access and limit opportunities for lateral movement. The credential vault stores passwords, service accounts, API keys, certificates, SSH keys, database credentials, and other privileged secrets while supporting rotation, reconciliation, and credential history. Session Intelligence captures video, transcripts, events, and behavioral data from privileged activity so security teams can monitor sessions, investigate anomalies, and create searchable audit evidence. 12Port also provides an MCP server that enables AI agents to request scoped credentials and system access through governed privileged access workflows. The platform can operate across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, operational technology, and isolated network environments while supporting compliance programs such as SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, and CMMC. 12Port is designed to help security, IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams consolidate privileged access, credential management, session auditing, and AI-agent governance into a single platform.