05/11/2026
📊 According to the Verizon 2025 DBIR, 22% of breaches begin with stolen credentials.
For years, PAM strategy focused on the basics: vault passwords, rotate , protect admin accounts. Those controls still matter — but they only cover the front door.
Attackers figured that out a while ago.
Phishing kits harvest credentials in real time. Stolen tokens bypass MFA entirely. Once inside, adversaries move laterally using legitimate accounts and quietly escalate privileges — nothing looks wrong until it's too late.
📊 Nearly 40% of breaches involve privilege escalation or lateral movement.
🚨 This is where credential-focused security hits its limit. If your visibility ends at , you have no idea what happens inside the session.
That's the shift security teams are making — from credential security to . Session visibility, user activity monitoring, and real-time detection are becoming standard parts of strategy. Because knowing who logged in matters a lot less than knowing what they did next.
At , we built around that principle from the start — PAM and monitoring in one agent, with identity threat detection ( ) from the moment a session opens.
Is your PAM strategy protecting the credential — or the identity behind it?
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