In most cases, native toolsets offered by cloud providers provide only basic controls and incremental amounts of risk reduction around the cloud’s privileged access problems. The native toolsets are not designed to fully and adequately solve the core problems inherent to unmanaged privileged identities and access.
This paper reviews and compares the privilege management capabilities of Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM), which provides some basic functionality, to BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management (PAM), which is recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and KuppingerCole analysts as a PAM / PIM leader and offering a complete solution.