Part of digital transformation is the communication between machines and applications to other applications and database servers to get business-related information. Some will require privileged access but time constraints on processes means it needs to be seamless and transparent as well as secure. AAPM is therefore being added as part of the SAPM function to allow applications to access credentials, making PAM suitable for the digital age by treating people, machines and applications as equal entities to be secured, without slowing down communication or file access. The activity of applications can also be tracked in the same way as users in the Session Manager.

Application Access Management incorporates targeted approach to eliminate hard coded application credentials embedded in applications, scripts or configuration files, and allows these highly-sensitive passwords to be centrally stored, logged and managed within the Vault. This unique approach enables organizations to comply with internal and regulatory compliance requirements of periodic password replacement, and monitor privileged access across all systems, databases and applications. To deal with the different real time scenarios centralise or distributed architecture is supported.