The integration enables passwordless administration, eliminating a significant attack vector while improving the user experience. System administrators can perform administrative tasks by elevating applications, not users, without entering administrative credentials.

The concept of passwordless administration is generally linked to just-in-timePAM, since the methods of applying passwordless administration can cover several technologies to temporarily elevate the user or the application for the specific requested task. In other words, in lieu of entering secondary administrative credentials, the user is trusted based on context.