Privileged Session

Definitions

1. A login session in which administrative or other elevated permissions are actively being used to manage sensitive systems. Security teams often apply stronger controls to privileged sessions, such as MFA, recording, command restrictions, approval workflows, or shorter session duration.

   In plain English: A logged-in session where someone is actively using elevated administrative access.

   Example: "Every privileged session to the production database cluster was proxied and recorded through the PAM gateway."

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