KeeperPAM® Named Top-Rated Privileged Access Management Solution in 2025 EMA Report

Accounts with unnecessarily elevated – and standing – permissions to an organization’s critical infrastructure are prime targets for threat actors. This is the case for all industries, but especially organizations in the finance, healthcare and manufacturing industries. This heightened risk has made protecting privileged access a top priority for cybersecurity teams globally.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions are designed to control and monitor access to these high-value assets, but not all PAM platforms are created equal. Many organizations still contend with legacy systems that are difficult to deploy, challenging to integrate and costly to maintain.

To help organizations navigate the PAM landscape, Keeper Security commissioned leading analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to conduct a global study of eight major PAM vendors. The results of the study were definitive: KeeperPAM outperformed the competition across every key performance metric, from deployment and integration to customer satisfaction and improved security architecture.

EMA report: KeeperPAM leads in every category

The EMA report, Beyond the Vault: Elevating Privileged Access Management in the Modern Enterprise, surveyed 106 cybersecurity professionals actively using eight popular PAM platforms. The platforms included solutions from BeyondTrust, CyberArk, Delinea, Devolutions, ManageEngine, One Identity, StrongDM and Keeper. Respondents were asked about deployment experience, staffing requirements, security capabilities and overall satisfaction with platform performance.

Why KeeperPAM outperforms legacy solutions

The data revealed a clear frontrunner – and a fundamental shift in how organizations expect PAM solutions to perform today.

Key Metric	KeeperPAM	Competitor Average
Deployment cited as “very easy”	60%	22%
Described as “zero trust by design” and “zero knowledge”	60%	35%
Dedicated staff required for deployment	15%	40%
Users “very satisfied” with current PAM solution	75%	54%
Users planning to switch providers	0%	5%

Faster deployment, smoother integration

For many organizations, implementing PAM is viewed as a daunting task. Keeper’s recent Insight Report, Securing Privileged Access: The Key to Modern Enterprise Defence, found that 44% of the 4,000 respondents cited challenges with implementation as a key barrier to adoption.

Legacy solutions are often associated with long deployment timelines and the need for dedicated personnel to get systems up and running. Keeper users, however, reported smoother onboarding with significantly fewer obstacles during deployment. The Keeper platform includes prebuilt connectors for identity providers, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools and CI/CD pipelines, enabling near plug-and-play integration.

The Keeper architecture delivers:

• Faster rollout across departments and geographies
• Minimal disruption to operations
• No need to hire PAM specialists or build custom-script connectors
• Significantly reduced deployment risk and cost

Zero trust by design, zero knowledge by default

Security isn’t just about controlling access – it’s about how access is managed. KeeperPAM was built from the ground up on zero-trust principles and zero-knowledge encryption, two of the most critical standards in modern cybersecurity architecture.

• Zero trust by design means every privileged session is continuously verified, with access decisions based on user identity, location, time and behaviour, rather than static credentials.
• Zero-knowledge encryption ensures only the end user can decrypt their stored data. Keeper has no access to customer data – not even in the event of a server breach. Encryption and decryption happen on the user’s device, and only ciphertext is transmitted or stored.

Sixty percent of Keeper customers recognise the platform as both zero trust and zero knowledge, compared with just 35% of users of other platforms. This design strengthens defences and significantly reduces insider risk, lateral movement and compliance overhead. 

A full-featured platform, not a patchwork of products

Many PAM solutions offer only credential vaulting and session monitoring, and require expensive add-ons or third-party tools for advanced capabilities.

KeeperPAM delivers a comprehensive feature set, including:

• Password management – Protect and manage an organization’s passwords, passkeys and confidential files.
• Secrets management – Protect API keys, CI/CD pipelines, developer tools and eliminate secrets sprawl.
• Session management – Provide passwordless remote access to any server, database or workload using a web browser.
• Session monitoring: Record session activity, including keystrokes, commands and screen captures, across all protocols. AI threat detection enables automated session termination.
• Remote browser isolation – Lock down internal web-based apps, cloud apps and admin panels, prevent data exfiltration and control browsing sessions with auditing, session recording and password autofill.
• Endpoint privilege management – Eliminate standing access rights and enable Just-in-Time (JIT) access across all Windows, Linux and macOS endpoints.
• Admin console – Manage and deploy Keeper to users, integrate with identity providers, monitor activity and establish role-based enforcement policies.
• Control plane – Orchestrate and monitor the various components and activities related to privileged access, session management, policies and workflow.
• Audit and compliance tools: Gain full visibility and traceability across all privileged activity.

This all-in-one model removes the need for organizations to juggle multiple vendors or stitch together disjointed tools. It also results in a lower total cost of ownership and simpler long-term management. 

Advanced PAM Capabilities	KeeperPAM Usage	Competitor Average Usage
Privileged session monitoring	75%	65%
Zero-trust access controls	80%	62%
Remote browser isolation	70%	54%
Just-in-time access	65%	51%
Endpoint privilege management	90%	74%

Built for global teams: Compliant and trusted worldwide

Whether you’re a multinational enterprise, government agency or midsize business with complex IT infrastructure, KeeperPAM adapts to your needs. It supports compliance with:

• ISO 27001
• GDPR
• HIPAA
• SOX
• PCI DSS

With its cloud-native infrastructure, KeeperPAM scales across users, locations and cloud environments without sacrificing control, performance or visibility. 

The bottom line: KeeperPAM is setting the standard 

The 2025 EMA report offers compelling evidence of Keeper’s position as the leading PAM solution provider on the market today. The findings confirm that KeeperPAM delivers a next-generation solution for managing privileged access that is:

• Fast to deploy
• Simple to manage
• Secure by design
• Easy to integrate
• Highly regarded by users

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