A Long-Term Vision: Work-Integrated Learning for PAM
Building education and industry partnerships for future PAM placements
This page sets out the long-term placement model PAM Best Practice is building as we onboard education and industry partners. The aim is to connect vendor-neutral Privileged Access Management training with structured, supervised workplace experience so learners can move from course knowledge into real security environments.
As the partner network develops, the placement pathway will bring together universities, colleges, students and organisations that want a more sustainable answer to the cybersecurity skills challenge. Students gain practical experience while they study, education providers strengthen employability outcomes, and organisations help build emerging PAM talent instead of relying only on scarce external expertise.
Explore education partnership options | Register interest as an industry partner | View the PAM training pathway
The partnership roadmap
For universities and colleges
Work-integrated learning is becoming an important differentiator for education providers. A future PAM placement partnership can help institutions give cybersecurity, computing, IT and business students practical exposure to one of the highest-demand security specialisms. The intended outcome is stronger graduate employability, clearer evidence of industry relevance and a distinctive pathway that connects classroom learning with real security practice.
For students
The planned pathway begins with PAM training and develops towards paid, supervised experience with suitable industry partners. Students will be able to apply what they have studied to live security challenges, build a professional network and show employers that they understand privileged accounts, access risk, governance, monitoring and operational improvement in context.
For organisations and security teams
Industry partners will be able to support emerging PAM talent while building internal capability. Instead of treating skills shortages only as a recruitment or outsourcing problem, the placement model helps organisations mentor learners in their own environment, strengthen institutional knowledge and create a more sustainable pipeline for hard-to-fill security roles.
How the model will work as partners come onboard
PAM Best Practice will connect learners who have completed the PAM curriculum with education and industry partners ready to support structured placement activity. The placement model is intended to be supervised, practical and focused on meaningful exposure to PAM work rather than generic work experience. Typical activities may include privileged-account discovery, governance support, access review, monitoring, documentation, stakeholder communication and improvement planning.
Getting involved now
This is a long-term programme being developed as we onboard the right education and industry partners. If you are a university, college, student, employer or security team interested in shaping the placement pathway, please register your interest so we can discuss the right route as the programme matures.
For universities: learn more about partnership options | For learners: explore the PAM Academy pathway | For organisations: register interest as a placement partner