Privileged Access Management Audit
Privileged accounts are the keys to the kingdom — and attackers know it. We audit how you manage, secure and monitor administrative access, and help you lock down the credentials that would do the most damage if abused.
Verified Solvex Specialist
Verified by SolvexDirect specialist contact for Solvex engagements
What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- Privileged-account discovery and inventory
- PAM solution and vaulting review (or gap analysis where absent)
- Just-in-time and least-privilege access assessment
- Session monitoring and recording review
- Service-account and secrets-management assessment
- Privileged-access governance recommendations
What you receive
- PAM audit report with findings
- Privileged-account inventory
- Vaulting and monitoring recommendations
- Remediation roadmap
- Executive summary
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Only your own systems, with authorisation
- Implementation delivered by your team or separately
- Point-in-time audit
- No misuse of privileged credentials during assessment
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- We don't have a PAM tool yet — is this still useful?
- Very. We assess how privileged access is managed today, quantify the risk, and recommend a practical PAM approach — whether that's a dedicated tool or better use of what you have.
- What counts as privileged access?
- Domain and system admins, cloud root/owner accounts, database admins, service accounts with broad rights, and any credential that could cause major damage if misused. We inventory them all.
- What do you need from us?
- Details of your administrative access, any existing PAM tooling, and authorised read access to relevant systems. We keep the audit strictly to your own environment.
Related services
Governance / Compliance
Identity & Access Management Audit
Over-privileged accounts and forgotten access are how small breaches become big ones. We audit who can access what across your systems, find the excess and orphaned accounts, and help you enforce least privilege.
Cloud / DevSecOps
Active Directory Security Assessment
Active Directory is the backbone of most enterprise networks — and attackers' favourite target. We assess your AD and Entra ID for the misconfigurations and attack paths that lead to domain compromise, and show you how to close them.
Defense & MDR
Zero Trust Architecture Design
Move beyond the old castle-and-moat model to 'never trust, always verify'. We design a pragmatic Zero Trust architecture for your organisation — identity-centric, least-privilege and staged so it's achievable, not aspirational.