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Privileged Access Management

Controls for issuing, monitoring and limiting high-privilege administrative access.

QUICK DEFINITION

Privileged Access Management — Controls for issuing, monitoring and limiting high-privilege administrative access.

WHY IT MATTERS

Why Privileged Access Management matters in finance

Privileged credentials can alter critical infrastructure, so their misuse carries outsized operational risk.

FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONTEXT

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.

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