Certified PartnerAdaptive PAM implementation partner in India
We deploy and manage Adaptive privileged access management for Indian enterprises — just-in-time access to databases, Kubernetes and cloud, identity and guardrails for AI agents, and a complete session audit trail. Agentless, so nothing is installed on your infrastructure.
What Problems Does Adaptive PAM Solve?
Four situations behind almost every privileged access management project we run in India. If you are still scoping the requirement, start with our PAM solutions overview.
Adaptive PAM (adaptive.live) is an agentless privileged access management platform that issues just-in-time, scoped credentials to humans, workloads and AI agents. Every session is brokered through a container proxy and recorded in an immutable audit trail, so no standing credentials sit on laptops or in shared vaults. Adaptive is the product name; it is not the same thing as "adaptive authentication", which is a generic access-control technique, and not the same company as others trading under the Adaptive name.
Engineers still have standing access to production databases
Credentials live in a shared vault, a password manager, or a config file somebody copied two years ago. They do not expire, they rarely rotate, and when someone leaves, revocation depends on a checklist being followed. Nobody can state confidently who can read the customer table today.
Bastion issues ephemeral, scoped credentials at the moment of access, with a configurable TTL, multi-approver workflows and automatic revocation. The credential is never handed to the human — the session is brokered. We onboard resource classes in waves and revoke the standing credentials wave by wave, so the change is measurable rather than aspirational.
AI coding agents are reaching production and nobody can attribute what they did
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor are already in your engineers' workflows, running with the developer's own credentials and therefore the developer's full rights. When an agent drops a table or writes to the wrong environment, the audit log shows a human's name — and the reasoning behind the action is gone.
Exo gives each agent its own identity before it reaches production, runs it in a sandboxed ephemeral session, blocks destructive verbs, and routes high-risk calls to a human for approval. Reasoning steps and tool calls are captured, so the audit question becomes retrievable rather than investigative.
The last PAM project took nine months and half the estate never got onboarded
Traditional PAM requires agents on target systems, network changes, and a jump-host architecture. Each of those is a change-control conversation with a different team. Projects stall at the systems nobody wants to touch, and the estate ends up half covered — which for audit purposes is close to not covered.
Adaptive is agentless. Nothing is installed on target infrastructure and no network reconfiguration is required; the platform brokers through a container proxy and patches via a Helm chart update. That removes the change-control conversations that stall these projects — which is why our typical estate reaches production in two to five weeks rather than two quarters.
Audit asks who accessed customer data and you reconstruct it from three log sources
Database logs, jump-host logs and IdP logs each hold part of the answer, in different formats, with different retention. Producing an access report for RBI, an ISO auditor or a customer security review becomes a multi-week reconstruction exercise every single time.
One immutable audit trail with session recording and replay, column-level masking, and database activity monitoring — exported to your SIEM in the format your auditor asks for. We hand over the evidence pack as a project deliverable and refresh it quarterly under managed service, so audit preparation is retrieval, not reconstruction.
The Adaptive PAM Platform: Bastion, Exo and Stratos
Adaptive splits into three products that share the same policy, approval and audit plane. Most Indian deployments start with Bastion and add Exo as agent use grows.
Bastion — infrastructure access (the PAM core)
Just-in-time access with configurable TTLs, multi-approver workflows, auto-approval schedules and automatic revocation. Credential vault with scheduled rotation. Ephemeral scoped credentials issued per session — the raw credential never reaches the user.
Exo — AI agent security
Per-agent identity issued before an agent reaches production. Sandboxed, ephemeral sessions for coding agents, with guardrails that block destructive actions and route high-risk calls to a human. One harness across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral models.
Stratos — browser security
Turns the browser into a controlled enterprise surface for privileged web consoles — cloud provider dashboards, admin panels, SaaS back ends — with per-session egress allowlists and sensitive-data masking applied in the browser itself.
Dynamic data masking, tokenization, column-level masking and in-flight data loss prevention, plus database activity monitoring and tamper-evident audit logs that export to your SIEM. Adaptive documents these as platform capabilities rather than separate products — worth confirming against your shortlist, because several established PAM vendors deliver masking and database activity monitoring through additional licensed components.
How a Request Actually Flows
Adaptive PAM Integrations: Databases, Kubernetes, Cloud and Identity Providers
98+ integrations, and nothing installed on any of them. Filter to the part of your estate that matters.
Databases
JUST-IN-TIME ACCESS, MASKING, ACTIVITY MONITORINGCloud & Kubernetes
SCOPED, TIME-BOXED CLUSTER ACCESSIdentity providers
PASSWORDLESS, MFA ENFORCED AT THE INFRASTRUCTURE LAYERAlready running JumpCloud? Adaptive federates against it directly — see our JumpCloud implementation practice.
CI/CD & observability
MACHINE IDENTITIES AND LOG EXPORTNetwork appliances & protocols
PRIVILEGED SESSIONS TO INFRASTRUCTURE DEVICESAdaptive brokers privileged sessions to network devices too — including the Fortinet estates we deploy.
Which PAM Solution Is Right for You?
Adaptive compared with CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea, ARCON, Sectona, StrongDM and Teleport
Five criteria decide a PAM purchase: how fast you can onboard the estate, whether standing credentials actually go away, whether non-human and AI identities are covered, where the data sits, and what it costs once implementation labour is counted. Here is how the field lands against those.
| Criterion | Adaptive | CyberArk | BeyondTrust / Delinea | ARCON / Sectona | StrongDM / Teleport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Agentless — container proxy, nothing on target systems, no network change | Agents and connectors on target systems | Agents / jump-host architecture | Gateway plus agents, appliance-oriented | StrongDM proxy-based; Teleport requires agents on nodes |
| Typical time to first protected resource | Days — no change-control queue for target-side installs | Weeks to months | Weeks to months | Weeks | Days to weeks |
| Standing credentials eliminated | Yes — ephemeral, scoped, auto-revoked | Yes, with vaulting and rotation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI agent / non-human identity | Native — per-agent identity, sandboxing, tool-call capture (Exo) | Machine identity products; agent-specific controls emerging | Service-account management; agent controls emerging | Service accounts | Service and machine access; limited agent guardrails |
| Data masking & tokenization | Native, including column-level and in-flight DLP | Typically via additional products | Typically via additional products | Partial, module-dependent | Limited |
| Session recording & replay | Yes, immutable | Yes — long-established | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted inside your own VPC | Yes — SaaS, hybrid or fully self-hosted | Yes, self-hosted and SaaS | Yes | Yes — usually deployed on-prem in India | StrongDM SaaS-first; Teleport self-hostable |
| Patch / upgrade model | Helm chart update — no target-side patching | Coordinated across vault, connectors and agents | Coordinated across components | Appliance and agent updates | Agent fleet upgrades (Teleport) |
| Breadth of legacy Windows & OT coverage | Narrower — strongest on modern cloud, database and Kubernetes estates | Broadest coverage of the group | Very strong | Strong, with India-specific deployments | Moderate |
| Analyst recognition & installed base | Early-stage — small installed base, no analyst quadrant position | Category leader, largest installed base | Established leaders | Well established in Indian BFSI | Established in cloud-native segment |
| Where it is not the answer | Large legacy Windows/OT estates, or procurement that requires a Magic Quadrant position | Small teams without dedicated PAM administrators; fast timelines | Cost-sensitive mid-market with modern cloud estates | Cloud-native teams wanting API-first, agentless operation | Buyers needing native masking, tokenization or agent guardrails |
If your privileged estate is databases, Kubernetes, cloud and increasingly AI agents, Adaptive will get you to full coverage faster and cheaper than a legacy PAM — and coverage is what your auditor is measuring. If your estate is dominated by legacy Windows servers and OT, or your procurement process requires an analyst-quadrant vendor, CyberArk or BeyondTrust remain the safer answer and we will say so on the call rather than after the purchase order. We deploy more than one platform.
Positioning reflects public vendor documentation and our own deployment experience as of August 2026.
What Does Adaptive PAM Cost in India?
Adaptive publishes no list price — it prices per deployment. Move the sliders to get an indicative planning band, then talk to us for a real quotation.
Adaptive prices around which products you run and the scale of your fleet, and every real number comes from them. The figures here are built on the same rate card as our cost calculator — a monthly base plus a per-seat rate and a one-time setup fee, annualised, with the band spanning a 36-month commitment at the low end and a 12-month term at the high end. The legacy comparison anchors on published list pricing — ARCON lists roughly USD 225–390 per user per year on AWS Marketplace depending on volume — plus the target-side agent rollout that agentless architecture removes. Converted at ₹88 to the dollar. Licences are invoiced in INR with GST, claimable as input credit.
How Long Does an Adaptive PAM Implementation Take?
Two to five weeks end to end for a typical 100–500 user estate — because there is nothing to install on your infrastructure. Select a phase to see what happens in it.
Why Buy Adaptive PAM Through an Implementation Partner in India?
The licence costs much the same either way. The difference is everything around it — the audit, the policy design, the revocation programme and the evidence. That work is our privileged access management practice, not an add-on.
| Direct with the vendor | Through NetNXT | |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | USD | INR with GST — input tax credit claimable |
| Privileged access audit | Your team scopes it | Delivered in phase 1, before anything is deployed |
| Policy & least-privilege design | Self-service documentation | Designed with your teams, tuned against real usage |
| IdP and SIEM integration | Your team | Delivered and tested |
| Self-hosted VPC deployment | Your team deploys and hardens it | Deployed and hardened by us |
| Standing-credential revocation | Not in scope | Run wave by wave, with a revocation log |
| Support hours | Vendor hours | IST-hours L1/L2, with vendor escalation we own |
| Access reviews | Your team | Quarterly, documented, audit-ready |
| Compliance evidence | Self-assembled at audit time | Evidence pack for RBI CSITE, DPDP, ISO 27001, SOC 2 |
| AI agent onboarding | Your team, as the fleet grows | Managed — new agents onboarded under existing policy |
If you have ten engineers, one database, a platform team that enjoys this work and no audit obligation, deploy it yourself — Adaptive is genuinely quick to stand up and we would rather tell you that now. Partners earn their margin on multi-team estates, credential revocation programmes, migrations and compliance evidence. If that is not your situation, we will say so on the call.
Adaptive PAM Compliance: RBI CSITE, DPDP Act, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS
Adaptive can run entirely inside your own VPC, which is the answer to the residency question. Below is the control-by-control mapping — what the requirement asks, what the platform does, and what we hand you as evidence.
| Framework | Control requirement | How Adaptive satisfies it | What NetNXT delivers as evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBI CSITE / Master Directions | Control and monitor privileged access; log privileged sessions; review access periodically | Just-in-time access with approval workflow, immutable session recording and replay, no standing credentials | Quarterly access review report, revocation log, session-retention configuration |
| DPDP Act 2023 | Data residency and purpose limitation; demonstrable control over who accesses personal data | Self-hosted inside your VPC in an India region; scoped, time-boxed access; column-level masking of personal data | Data-flow documentation, masking policy export, access records per data class |
| ISO 27001 | A.8 access control; A.8.15 logging; least-privilege enforcement | Policy per environment, tool and dataset; ephemeral credentials; immutable logs exported to SIEM | Policy documentation, control-mapping matrix, log-retention evidence |
| SOC 2 | Logical access controls and monitoring across the trust services criteria | Platform is itself SOC 2 Type II audited; audit logs described as SOC 2-aligned | Vendor audit report on request, plus your own control evidence pack |
| PCI DSS 8.x | Unique IDs, MFA for all access into the cardholder data environment, no shared accounts | Per-identity access including non-human identities, MFA enforced at the infrastructure layer, shared accounts eliminated | Identity inventory, MFA enforcement evidence, shared-account closure log |
| HIPAA | Audit controls and minimum-necessary access to PHI | HIPAA-aligned controls, column masking, full session capture | Access records per data class, masking configuration export |
Whether this satisfies your specific obligations is your counsel's and your auditor's determination, not ours. What we provide is the technical control, the configuration evidence and the documentation they need in order to make it — produced as a deliverable, not assembled in a scramble the week before an audit.
Managed Adaptive PAM Services in India
Deployment is the short part. PAM fails in year two, when nobody owns the policy. These are the practices that run afterwards — delivered by the same team behind our managed PAM services.
Managed PAM operations
Policy lifecycle, TTL and approval tuning, resource onboarding, break-glass procedure management, and platform upgrades via Helm.
Access review & recertification
Quarterly documented reviews of who holds what, with sign-off captured and dormant entitlements removed rather than noted.
AI agent onboarding
New agents brought under existing policy as your fleet grows — identity issued, guardrails set, approval thresholds calibrated to blast radius.
Compliance evidence & audit support
Refreshed evidence packs for RBI CSITE, DPDP, ISO 27001 and SOC 2, plus direct support during auditor and customer security reviews.
Frequently Asked Questions
If your privileged estate is databases, Kubernetes, cloud and AI agents, Adaptive reaches full coverage faster than a legacy PAM because it installs nothing on target systems. If your estate is dominated by legacy Windows and OT, or procurement requires an analyst-quadrant vendor, CyberArk or BeyondTrust remain the safer choice. See the full comparison.
Adaptive prices per deployment — by products run and fleet scale — so there is no list price. In our experience the licence lands broadly in line with modern PAM, and the saving is in implementation: no target-side agent rollout and no network re-architecture. We quote in INR with GST, claimable as input credit. Use the planning estimator.
Two to five weeks end to end for a typical 100–500 user estate: access audit (3–5 days), architecture (3–5 days), pilot (1 week), phased rollout (1–3 weeks). Migrations run in parallel rather than as a cutover — the incumbent vault stays authoritative until each resource class is signed off. Vault contents are mapped, not bulk-imported.
Yes — Adaptive deploys as SaaS, hybrid or fully self-hosted inside your own VPC, which is how we deploy it where residency is a requirement. The platform is SOC 2 Type II audited and described by the vendor as RBI CSITE-ready. We deliver the control mapping, data-flow documentation and access records your auditor needs. See the compliance mapping.
Adaptive federates against Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, JumpCloud, OneLogin, LDAP or any SAML/OIDC provider, and covers 98+ integrations including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, EKS, GKE, AKS and the major clouds — plus SSH, RDP and network appliances. Nothing is installed on any of them. See the integration list.
INR invoicing with GST, a privileged-access audit before deployment, policy and least-privilege design tuned against real usage, IdP and SIEM integration, self-hosted VPC deployment and hardening, standing-credential revocation run wave by wave, IST-hours L1/L2 support, quarterly access reviews, and a compliance evidence pack. See the full comparison, or our wider privileged access management practice.
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