Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is subcategory of Identity Management. Its purpose is to focus on privileged accounts, important accounts used by the team of IT administrators or sometime, people in the top brass of the organization. It also focuses on select business users and applications that are crucial to the business operations of the organization.
Privileged accounts are targeted by external attackers surpassing firewall and malicious insiders (rogue employees) who have access to sensitive data.
PIM Solutions ensure security for user accounts in the applications that are a part of IT Infrastructure.