Securden Unified PAM vs. 12Port

Access privileges and their corresponding credentials play a crucial role in safeguarding an organization's sensitive information. The nature of this sensitive data can differ widely depending on the sector; for instance, healthcare entities manage extensive patient records, while banks oversee financial and customer information. It is vital to secure access to these privileged accounts, as they are frequently unmanaged and scattered throughout the organization. A comprehensive Privileged Access Management solution, such as Securden Unified PAM, is essential for gathering all privileged identities and accounts into a centralized vault, simplifying management. By limiting access to these accounts and applying the Just-in-time access principle, organizations can enhance security. Users can initiate remote connections to authorized IT resources with a single click, while monitoring and managing these sessions for users, third-party vendors, and IT administrators through shadowing capabilities. Additionally, organizations should eliminate local admin rights on endpoints and implement application control policies to effectively uphold a Zero-Trust approach without hindering productivity. Furthermore, it is important to record and monitor all activities with thorough audit trails and actionable reports to maintain compliance with industry regulations, ultimately ensuring the protection of sensitive information.

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.