Security and compliance requirements are tightening, but the tools enforcing infrastructure access are stuck in the 90s. This white paper breaks down why legacy PAM creates shadow IT, credential sharing, and developer friction, then introduces DevExSec: seven principles for access governance that developers actually use.
Regulations like SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and SOX are demanding tighter infrastructure access controls, but the tools available to enforce them were never designed for modern engineering teams. The result: developers route around security, share credentials, and create blind spots that auditors eventually find. This white paper maps the architecture of dysfunction in traditional PAM, then lays out a new framework, DevExSec, built on seven principles that unify developer experience, security enforcement, and audit readiness at the command level.