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Notes From the Identity Security Frontier.

Field notes on zero standing privilege, Zero Trust architecture, and what actually changes when access decisions move from "decide-once" to runtime.

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Challenges and Solutions in Adopting Zero Standing Privileges

February 9, 2024

Challenges and Solutions in Adopting Zero Standing Privileges

What actually gets in the way when enterprises move from standing privileged access to a just-in-time, zero-standing-privilege model — and how to work through it in practice, not just in theory.

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Navigating Compliance with Zero Trust Security for GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS

February 7, 2024

Navigating Compliance with Zero Trust Security for GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS

How a Zero Trust posture maps onto the access-control requirements inside three of the standards enterprise security teams get audited against most.

Zero Standing Privileges vs. Traditional PAM: What's the Difference?

February 6, 2024

Zero Standing Privileges vs. Traditional PAM: What's the Difference?

Vaulting a credential and granting it broadly is not the same as never letting standing access exist in the first place. Where the two models actually diverge.

The Evolution of Privileged Access Management: From Permanent to Zero Standing Privileges

December 29, 2023

The Evolution of Privileged Access Management: From Permanent to Zero Standing Privileges

A short history of how PAM got from permanent admin accounts to just-in-time elevation — and why each step happened in response to a real failure mode.

Identity Centric ZTNA – The future of Identity and Access Management

November 28, 2023

Identity Centric ZTNA — The Future of Identity and Access Management

Network-centric access control assumes a perimeter that no longer exists. What changes when identity, not network location, becomes the control point.

Enhancing Enterprise Security: The Role of MFA and Zero Standing Privileges

November 21, 2023

Enhancing Enterprise Security: The Role of MFA and Zero Standing Privileges

MFA proves who is asking. Zero standing privilege governs what they get once they're in. Why enterprise security needs both, working together.

Modern Identity & Access Security

September 9, 2023

Modern Identity & Access Security

What a modern identity and access security stack actually needs to cover to protect applications and cloud infrastructure today, end to end.

Zero Trust security posture is hard

September 9, 2023

Zero Trust Security Posture Is Hard

Not because the principle is complicated — because most enterprises build it out of four or five point solutions that were never designed to share a policy model.

See It In Practice

From Reading About Zero Standing Privilege to Running It.