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Every vendor at Gartner Security Summit this week will tell you how to guard standing privilege better. Britive will tell you something different: stop having it. Standing privilege costs you three ways, the software to manage it, the infrastructure to run it, and the people to keep it working. And it all scales with your footprint. Britive removes the access itself. Privilege created at runtime, gone when the work is done. The end of standing privilege, and the cost of guarding it. 📍Come see how at Britive Booth 1139 #gartner #gartnersrm #IAM

If no identity holds privilege between tasks, what does an engineer's day actually look like? That is the operational question behind every Zero Standing Privileges architecture, and it is the one most demos skip. In this walkthrough, Britive Solutions Architect Palak Chheda runs through the answer end-to-end. An engineer logs in, sees the access profiles they are entitled to request, and checks out only what the current task needs. The BigQuery viewer profile gets scoped to a single GCP project. The Storage Admin elevation requires step-up authentication at the moment of checkout, not at provisioning time. An Azure subscription owner profile follows the same pattern in a different cloud, with the same control plane behind it. The same flow extends to the work that does not happen in a browser. A pybritive CLI command requests a short-lived SSH credential and connects the engineer to a Linux server in one motion. If sudo is not part of the profile, sudo escalation fails, even when the engineer is already on the box. Where the profile does allow it, the session runs through Britive Bridge with every keystroke recorded and tied back to identity, context, and the originating request. The credential is no longer the control surface. The request and resulting permissions are. 📺 Watch the full walkthrough: https://hubs.ly/Q04jnTq20 #IdentitySecurity #PrivilegedAccess #ZeroStandingPrivilege #JustInTimeAccess #CloudPAM #PAM #DevSecOps

📣 The newest edition of Identity Security, Simply Put is here! The industry has reached consensus that identity is the control plane for agentic AI. The architectures inside most enterprises haven't caught up yet, despite autonomous agents hitting production systems. This month we unpack what containment actually requires when the agents are already inside. Here's what's inside: 🟣 The Fortune 50 disclosure every identity leader should be reading: a CEO's AI agent rewrote the company's own security policy — not because it was compromised, but because it "wanted to fix a problem" and removed the restrictions itself. The takeaway: a valid credential plus authorized access no longer equals a safe outcome. 🟣 Shadow AI has morphed into shadow operations. Unsanctioned agents are accumulating permissions across SaaS, cloud, and pipelines — often without any security oversight or logging — and the risk has shifted from data leakage to operational integrity. 🟣 Verizon's 2026 DBIR is the reminder that the fundamentals haven't moved: credentials are still the #1 path into 32% of all breaches, 88% of basic web application attacks involve stolen credentials, and third-party identity exposure doubled in a single year. 🟣 The path forward: stop authorizing access at provisioning time and start enforcing it at runtime. Every meaningful action taken by any identity must be evaluated against current policy and current context, with privilege that exists only for the work and disappears the second it's done. That's how you contain what you've already deployed. 🌟 Plus, quick recaps of the latest Britive blogs and where to find us IRL between now and Identiverse. Subscribe so the next edition lands directly in your feed 🔔 #ZSP #AgenticAI #IdentitySecurity #PAM #NHI #AISecurity #CloudSecurity #Britive

The legacy vault-centric model used to be the privileged access control plane. In most cloud-heavy organizations, the control plane has moved to live somewhere else. The shift isn’t caused by a single failure, but three forces at the same time: 1️⃣ Cloud and SaaS admin density moved the control surface to API-driven control planes the vault was never meant to reach. 2️⃣ Workload lifecycles shrank to seconds, while the rotation engine was designed for months 3️⃣  Agentic AI is about to multiply the non-human identity population by an order of magnitude, with a control model that has to evaluate each tool call, not each session. Any one of those forces would be a hard problem for the vault model. The three arriving together is not a problem the vault model gets to solve at all. The architectural target is runtime #ZeroStandingPrivileges. Standing credentials stop being the thing you control. Credential lifetimes match how long workloads actually live. Policy is evaluated at each request, against current context, against current identity, against current intent. That is not a feature you add to the vault. It is a different architecture. The privileged access architecture for the next decade is being chosen now. The only variable is whether IAM designs it or inherits it. 🔗 Read Ketan Kapadia’s blog on the convergence and what runtime ZSP actually requires: https://hubs.ly/Q04j36bb0

On this Memorial Day, we honor and remember the service members who made the ultimate sacrifice to our country and their families. Their courage and selflessness continue to inspire us, today and every day. We are grateful for their legacy and the freedoms they defended. From the Britive team, we honor their memory. #MemorialDay #RememberAndHonor

Many security teams have lived through the assumption that storage = security. Centralize the credential, rotate it, monitor it. The model held up for a long time, because the identities using those credentials were predictable. Service accounts called the same APIs in the same patterns. AI agents broke the predictability. An agent receives a goal, generates its own execution plan, and acts at machine speed. The credential it holds carries blast radius, regardless of whether it sits in a vault. An active secret, vaulted or unvaulted, is an active risk. Two more ideas worth holding next to it. Zero Standing Privileges was a best practice for humans. With agents, it becomes a must-have. A human user with standing access goes to sleep and the risk sits idle. An agent is a living piece of code. If it holds persistent permissions, those permissions are a 24/7 gateway for attack. The control plane for agentic AI is not credential storage. It is a unified access broker, where the agent never logs into a resource directly. The broker validates each action against policy and enforces permissions at runtime. 📺 Catch the recap of identity practitioner Sushant Chowdhary unpacking the architecture in detail with Britive Field CTO, Ketan Kapadia: https://hubs.ly/Q04h80JP0 #IdentitySecurity #AgenticAI #ZeroStandingPrivilege #PAM #AISecurity #CISO

Here’s what is and isn’t true Zero Standing Privileges ⬇️ "Just-in-time access" has been diluted to mean almost anything. Most platforms claiming JIT today are gating access to static credentials that already exist on target systems. That's not Zero Standing Privileges — that's just limiting how long a user is allowed to use the credentials that are part of the standing access problem. In an age where whole environments and identities are created and destroyed in a matter of minutes and seconds, vault-reliant access management can’t keep up or adequately secure a rapidly evolving blast radius. In this episode of Access Granted, Britive's Principal Product Manager, Matt Wilson, breaks down the distinction that defines modern PAM: → JIT access that gates pre-existing credentials still leaves standing access in place → True JIT privileges that adhere to #ZSP create privilege at runtime: the credential didn't exist until the request, and ceases to exist when the task ends Why the distinction matters more in hybrid environments than anywhere else, and why most platforms haven't actually solved the problem they're claiming to solve. 📺 Listen to the full episode here → https://hubs.ly/Q04hwKLB0 #PAM #ZeroStandingPrivileges #IdentitySecurity

We are deeply proud to be part of this best-of-breed Amazon Web Services (AWS) cohort, standing alongside an exceptional group of security innovators in AWS Security Hub Extended. By eliminating the six-month procurement bottlenecks that traditionally stall security teams, this model makes strong security instantly accessible right where cloud workloads live. As the volume and behavior of identities from human to agentic scales exponentially across cloud infrastructure, making specialized protection easy to adopt matters more than ever. The piece we bring: runtime privileged access for every identity in any environment. As humans, AI agents, and machine identities act across multi-cloud and hybrid enterprises, Britive creates privilege only when work requires it and removes it when the work is done. Zero standing access, less cleanup, less cost, less friction, and a current audit trail. Thank you, Chet Kapoor, and the entire AWS team for bringing this ecosystem together to rewrite the rules of enterprise security procurement.

If you've ever cleaned up standing privilege in your environment, you probably know how this goes. You spend a quarter doing it. Next quarter, it is back. Different accounts, different roles, different pipelines, but the same problem. 🧹 The reason is not effort. It's the architecture. Most environments today have privilege as the default state. Identities hold roles. Service accounts retain entitlements. Credentials sit in environment variables waiting to be retrieved. Removing standing privilege from that environment is a constant cleanup project, run against an environment where there are more and more permissions accumulating every day. Ephemeral privilege inverts the default. No identity holds privilege between tasks. The environment is "no access" until something specific is requested and policy authorizes that specific request. 🔒 Privilege is created at the moment of need, scoped to the task, removed when the work is done. The cleanup stops being a quarterly project, because the environment stops accumulating the thing that needs to be cleaned up. A deeper read on why standing privilege keeps coming back, what ephemeral privilege actually changes, and what each role on the team can expect to see in practice: https://hubs.ly/Q04hl38d0 #IdentitySecurity #CloudSecurity #PAM #ZeroStandingPrivilege #EphemeralAccess #CISO

🌍 Identiverse 2026 is almost here, and the Britive team is heading to Vegas. Stop by our booth for live magic, some fresh swag, and conversations around what identity security looks like in the cloud and AI era. This year’s event is centered around the future of identity, trust, modern infrastructure, and that’s exactly where we’ll be spending our time. As organizations manage more cloud environments, automation, non human identities, and AI agents, privileged access can’t rely on static permissions and standing access built for a different era. We’ll be talking about: • Runtime authorization • Zero Standing Privileges • Securing human, non human, and Agentic AI identities • Multi cloud privileged access without vault sprawl or operational friction • Why “legacy” isn’t always the safer option Looking forward to seeing the identity community in Las Vegas 💥 📅 June 15–18, 2026 📍 Booth #207 💡 Stop by for a chance to chat with the team or see some live magic! Want a dedicated time slot? Schedule a meeting in advance to dive deeper into your security priorities. ⬇️ #Identiverse #IdentitySecurity #CloudPAM #ZeroStandingPrivileges #ZSP #Cyberiskalliance #CybersecurityLeadership #NonHumanIdentities #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurityEvents #Identiverse2026 #IAM #PAM #AIIdentitySecurity