# Rethinking Modern Privileged Access Management for Cloud and Cloud-Native Environments

DevFeed: [Rethinking Modern Privileged Access Management for Cloud and Cloud-Native Environments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rethinking-modern-privileged-access-management-for-cloud-and-cloud-native-environments-29803.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/rethink-modern-pam-for-cloud-environments/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2022-04-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [least-privilege](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/least-privilege.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This post explains why privileged access management needs to evolve for modern cloud and cloud-native environments. It discusses how abstraction and API-based interaction increase the sensitivity and potential impact of privileged accounts, then introduces major challenges for modern PAM.

## Source excerpt

This post explores why and how we can rethink privileged access management solutions for modern cloud and cloud-native environments.