How IBM Verify Privilege Vault Simplifies Secure Access

Most PAM solutions rely heavily on jump servers to provide RDP SSH or third party application access. While this model works it can add extra steps and infrastructure overhead.

IBM Verify Privilege Vault takes a different approach by using a small protocol handler on the user’s machine. This allows secure vault controlled access without always needing an intermediary server.

Key Advantages

Native RDP and SSH Access
Instead of routing everything through a jump server the protocol handler can launch the user’s local RDP app or PuTTY for SSH. Credentials come from the vault but the connection happens directly from the user’s machine.

Support for third party Applications
If a third party tool accepts CLI parameters the protocol handler can pass credentials directly making integration quicker. Only when the application cannot support this does the system fall back to RDS.

Flexible SFTP Connectivity
SFTP can work either through a proxy or directly from the user’s local SFTP client depending on policy and capability.

Less Dependency on Jump Servers
Because many connections work natively jump servers are used only when needed not for everything. This reduces complexity and can simplify the overall architecture.

IBM Verify Privilege Vault does not change how administrators prefer to work. It simply gives them secure access using the tools they already know while keeping credential management centralized and controlled.