Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Omdia, a global analyst and advisory leader, recently released a report called “How Extended Access Management (XAM) closes the gaps in security.” The report outlines the challenges of managing access for the modern workforce and suggests strategies for addressing those challenges. Omdia defines the challenge areas of access management as: In 2024, 1Password launched Extended Access Management (XAM), a new security category designed to close the Access-Trust Gap.

Many businesses confuse traditional password management tools with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. While both aim to secure credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access, they serve very different purposes. Traditional password managers are designed to store and organize login credentials for everyday user accounts, helping individuals and teams manage passwords more efficiently.

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Passwords remain the most widely used and weakest authentication method in the enterprise. They’re still responsible for the majority of breaches, and IT teams spend an outsized amount of time simply managing them. It’s no wonder that security leaders are shifting toward passwordless authentication, a more secure and phishing-resistant approach that replaces traditional credentials with biometrics, passkeys, and FIDO2-compliant sign-ins.

Each year on World Password Day, most password managers will remind you that sticky notes are no place for storing passwords, to avoid using “password123,” or to stop repeating passwords across multiple accounts. That is all sound advice, but we’re in 2025. Passwords are still everywhere, but our relationship with them has evolved — or rather, devolved.

KeeperPAM enables organizations to achieve complete visibility, security, control and reporting across every user on every device. KeeperPAM is cloud-based, enables zero-trust and zero-knowledge security, and helps your organization meet compliance mandates by unifying four integral solutions into one unified platform and control plane – enterprise password management, secrets management, connection management, zero-trust network access and remote browser isolation.