Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a cybersecurity solution that controls, monitors and secures privileged accounts with elevated permissions across critical systems. By preventing unauthorized privileged access, enforcing governance and maintaining complete visibility and audit trails, Enlight PAM by ESDS helps reduce cyber risk, strengthen compliance and protect organizations from insider and external threats.
Every bank, hospital, government body and enterprise have users who have access to everything. They can shut down servers, copy databases, reset credentials, erase audit logs if needed. These are privileged users. In most Indian organisations, they are managed through shared spreadsheets, informal messaging and zero oversight.
Damage is often caused by legitimate permissions rather than an external breach.
A single stolen password can grant total access across the environment.
Access is frequently granted once but never revoked when no longer needed.
Normal logins can mask highly abnormal and dangerous user sessions.
Identifying a suspicious session is useless if there is no way to stop it.
Many systems lack records of who accessed what data or why.
Service accounts often quietly outgrow their original purpose, creating unmanaged risk.
Old, forgotten SSH keys remain open and active in the system.
Third-party vendor access remains active long after the engagement has expired.
High-level privileged accounts exist that are completely unseen by security teams.
Emergency overrides are often triggered without any monitoring or oversight.
Organizations lack required records for RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001.
Encrypted vaulting with automated password rotation and policy-based access controls.
Just-in-time access, MFA enforcement and least-privilege policies for every session.
Tamper-proof session recording with searchable logs and forensic-grade audit trails.
UEBA-driven anomaly detection with continuous monitoring and real-time alerts.
Pre-built evidence and reporting aligned with RBI, SEBI, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF.
ESDS offers a comprehensive Privileged Access Management platform that secures elevated access to sensitive infrastructure—whether deployed in hybrid, cloud-native, or on-premise environments.
Regulatory frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR require privileged account controls and logging. Our solution supports these mandates by ensuring complete audit trails, policy-based access enforcement, and compliance-ready visibility.
Whether for DevOps, admin accounts, or cloud apps, Privileged Access Management simplifies control over high-risk environments.
Enlight PAM is ESD’' enterprise-grade Privileged Access Management platform built entirely in India, deployed within your organisation’s own data boundary, with no dependency on foreign cloud infrastructure. Other major PAM providers are foreign-built, foreign-hosted and priced for global enterprise budgets. They are not designed for the RBI IT Framework, SEBI CSCRF or India’s DPDP Act. Organisations end up paying for capabilities they cannot use and lacking assurances they actually need. Enlight PAM is purpose-built for India’s regulatory environment. Every credential, session record and audit log stays on your soil, under your jurisdiction, answerable to Indian law. That is not a feature, it is the architecture
It is built into the platform’s architecture, not added as a report layer. Access approval workflows, session recordings, credential rotation logs and risk-scoring reports are structured to satisfy each framework’s specific audit and incident-reporting requirements. Compliance dashboards mapped to RBI IT Framework, PCI-DSS v4.0, SEBI CSCRF, ISO 27001:2022 and NIST CSF are pre-built, one-click export in HTML and PDF. When an auditor walks in, you produce evidence in minutes, not weeks. It is worth noting that Enlight PAM is designed to support compliance, independent audit and certification against each framework; it is the organisation’s responsibility and ours to facilitate.
Three separate controls, all enforced simultaneously. First, no standing privileges: every session requires an explicit access request, approval, MFA challenge and an active time-bound policy. The moment the approved window closes, the session terminates automatically. Second, command policies: administrators define allow-lists and block-lists per target; a blocked command terminates the session immediately and fires an alert. Third, UEBA - built-in: behavioural analytics builds a baseline per user and scores anomalies continuously. Off-hours access, unusual targets, large data transfers, concurrent sessions from multiple IPs, all scored 0 to 100. High-risk events trigger adaptive MFA escalation. And if you need to act in real time, the administrator kill-switch terminates any live session from the console, instantly.
Recordings are stored on-premise within your own infrastructure, no cloud dependency, no external routing. SSH sessions are captured as indexed, replayable asciicast files. RDP sessions are screen-recorded. Database queries are logged. At session end, a SHA-256 hash is computed on each recording and stored in the database. Any tampering breaks the hash, it is detectable. The audit events table has no DELETE or UPDATE exposed via API; a database-level trigger fires on any deletion attempt. What is recorded stays recorded.
The platform integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise infrastructure through built-in, configuration-driven connectors. It supports Active Directory integration via LDAPS with scheduled incremental synchronization, automatically reflecting user lifecycle changes such as disabled accounts during the next sync cycle and enables Single Sign-On using OIDC or SAML 2.0. For security operations, privileged access events can be forwarded to SIEM for centralized monitoring and compliance reporting, while ServiceNow REST APIs enable automated validation or creation of access and change tickets within existing ITSM workflows. SMTP-based email notifications support approval and alert processes and standard integrations typically require only environment-specific endpoints, credentials and connectivity details rather than custom development.
Three deployment options: on-premise, private cloud or PAM-as-a-Service managed by ESDS. The core architecture is a three-tier setup across three dedicated servers: application, session gateway and database. Minimum spec per node is documented and runs on standard Ubuntu 22.04 infrastructure you likely already operate. There is no per-session licensing. No mandatory cloud subscription. No professional services lock-in for ongoing use. Total cost of ownership is a fraction of global alternatives and for organisations that choose PAM-as-a-Service, ESDS carries the infrastructure and operational overhead entirely.
Because Enlight PAM was not built in a lab. ESDS has managed critical banking, government and enterprise infrastructure in India for over 18 years. The engineers who built Enlight PAM are the same engineers who run mission-critical environments for organisations where privileged access failure is an operational one. The platform is at v1.0 General Availability with 29 functional modules, 292 API endpoints, 55 frontend screens, 118 database tables and session proxy support for SSH, RDP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle and Cisco network devices. This is production-grade software built by people who understand what production actually means. ESDS is not asking you to trust a roadmap. The product is live. POC engagements are open now.
