How does Privileged access management support the objective “vaults, monitors, and tightly controls elevated administrative credentials”?

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Privileged access management is a cybersecurity control or practice. It supports this objective: vaults, monitors, and tightly controls elevated administrative credentials. The implementation should still be validated against the organization's risk, architecture, legal obligations and operating constraints, then adapted rather than copied unchanged between environments.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022: https://www.iso.org/standard/27001