Privileged Access Management — Controls for issuing, monitoring and limiting high-privilege administrative access.
Why Privileged Access Management matters in finance
Privileged credentials can alter critical infrastructure, so their misuse carries outsized operational risk.
Security is also a market-infrastructure question
In financial services, privileged access management should be understood in relation to operational continuity, data integrity, payments, market infrastructure and interconnected dependencies. A control can be technically effective while still leaving material resilience risk if critical services cannot continue or recover during disruption.