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title: "Infisical PAM"
sidebarTitle: "Overview"
description: "Learn how to manage access to resources like databases, servers, and accounts with policy-based controls and approvals."
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Infisical Privileged Access Management (PAM) provides a centralized way to manage and secure access to your critical infrastructure. It allows you to enforce fine-grained, policy-based controls over resources like databases, servers, and more, ensuring that only authorized users can access sensitive systems, and only when they need to.

### How it Works

Infisical PAM employs a resource-based model to organize and manage access. This model is designed to be intuitive and scalable.

#### 1. Create a Resource

The first step is to define a resource you want to manage. A resource represents a target system, such as a PostgreSQL database. When creating a resource, you'll provide the necessary connection details, like the host and port.

![Create Resource](/images/pam/overview/create-resource.png)

#### 2. Add Accounts to the Resource

Once a resource is created, you can add accounts to it. An account represents a specific set of credentials (e.g., a username and password) that can be used to access the resource. This allows you to manage multiple sets of credentials for a single database or server from one place.

![Create Account](/images/pam/overview/create-account.png)

### Infisical PAM Features

#### Session Logging and Auditing

-   **Session Logging**: All user sessions are extensively logged, providing a detailed and searchable record of activities performed during a session.
-   **Audit Logging**: Every significant event, such as a user starting a session or accessing an account's credentials, is recorded in audit logs. This gives you complete visibility over your project.

![Session Page](/images/pam/overview/session-page.png)

#### Automated Credential Rotation

Infisical PAM can automatically rotate account credentials to enhance your security posture.

Here’s how it works:
1.  **Add a Rotation Account**: On the resource level, you configure a "rotation account." This is a master or privileged account that has the necessary permissions to change the passwords of other accounts on that same resource.
![Credential Rotation Account](/images/pam/overview/credential-rotation-account.png)

2.  **Configure Rotation on Accounts**: For each individual account you want to rotate, you can simply enable rotation and set a desired interval (e.g., every 30 days).
![Rotate Credentials Account](/images/pam/overview/rotate-credentials-account.png)

Infisical will then use the rotation account on the resource to automatically update the credentials of the target account at the specified interval, eliminating credential staleness.