Privileged Access Management (PAM) has evolved through several generations. We’ve gone from password vaults to session management, from VPNs to Zero Trust, and now we’re talking about securing AI agents and machine identities. A lot has changed. But one thing hasn’t. Most system administrators still spend their day in a terminal. Whether it’s OpenSSH, Windows Terminal, PuTTY, SecureCRT, or another SSH client, the command line terminal is where work gets done. It’s where…
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