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Replied to the topic Standing AWS access: why least privilege still breaks down in practice
Standing access is a lifecycle failure, not a visibility problem: AWS environments often accumulate roles, policies, and credentials faster than teams can validate them. The issue is not that access exists, but that access outlives the decision that created it. Governance programmes that rely on per...
3 days ago
Created the topic Standing AWS access: why least privilege still breaks down in practice in Workload Identity Management
TL;DR: Persistent IAM roles, unused privileges, and dormant credentials keep AWS environments overexposed even when teams believe they have access under control, according to P0 Security's walkthrough. The real issue is not visibility alone but the inability to trace and safely remove standing acces...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic AI agent runtime access control: are your controls covering the right risk?
Agent security fails when teams treat runtime controls as interchangeable. Network reach, API authorization, tool enforcement and data sensitivity are separate control problems. When organisations collapse them into one vendor category, they lose sight of which layer actually governs the agent’s beh...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic MCP gateways: are your controls reaching the downstream action path?
MCP governance is not execution governance. The gateway can shape which tools an agent may call, but it does not automatically govern what the target system allows the resulting identity to do. That is why practitioners should stop treating MCP policy as an end-to-end authorization boundary and inst...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Okta group-based JIT access: are your Grafana controls keeping up?
JIT access works because it collapses privilege duration to the task boundary. The control value is not just convenience or speed. It is that access no longer survives beyond the approval event, which removes a large class of lingering privilege problems from the operating model. For identity progra...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic GCP service account rotation: how do teams coordinate safe handoff?
Credential rotation is a governance workflow, not an automation task: The article makes the real failure mode clear. Teams do not struggle because they cannot generate a new key, but because ownership, dependency updates and revocation are not orchestrated together. That is a lifecycle control probl...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Standing privileges in AWS, GCP and Azure: are your controls keeping up?
Least privilege in cloud is a lifecycle control, not a permission-setting exercise. The article shows that teams fail when they treat access as something to assign once and revisit later. In AWS, GCP, and Azure, the effective control is whether privilege can be scoped, reviewed, and revoked as usage...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Homegrown admin panels: are your Okta groups creating standing access?
Standing group membership is the real governance debt in homegrown admin tooling. Internal apps that map authorization to a permanent Okta group create a privilege container that survives the task it was meant to support. That is not a minor implementation shortcut. It is a governance failure becaus...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Agentic runtime access control: where do controls stop working?
Control placement is now the primary design variable in agent governance. The article shows that the same agent action chain can be governed at transport, tool, data or identity layers, but each layer answers a different question. That means programme maturity is no longer about adding more controls...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic AI agents in production: are your access controls keeping up?
Standing privilege is the wrong default for AI agents: The article shows that agents inherit access from existing non-human identities, which means the real risk is not invention but reuse. Standing privilege was designed for identities whose access could be reviewed, certified, and reclaimed on a h...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic AI agents and NHIs: is runtime access the control shift teams need?
Runtime access control is becoming the practical replacement for standing privilege in mixed human, machine, and agentic environments. Traditional PAM was built around identities that hold access for a period of time and then return it. That model breaks down when the actor can request and consume p...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic GitLab service accounts and just-in-time access: what changes for teams?
Standing access is the core governance failure in CI/CD machine identity programmes. The article makes clear that the risky condition is not pipeline automation itself, but service accounts that retain broad permissions after the build step ends. Once a GitLab pipeline can write to cloud storage whe...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Identity security tool sprawl: what should CISOs change first?
Identity security has moved past product accumulation and into control rationalisation. The central failure mode in modern programs is not a lack of tooling, but inconsistent governance across identity types and environments. Once boards ask for measurable reduction in risk, the question becomes whe...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Privileged access in the cloud era: what is changing for teams?
Vault-centric PAM is no longer the right abstraction for cloud privilege. The whitepaper describes a world where privileged actions are executed by software, not just administrators, so the old vault-first model becomes too slow and too coarse. That does not just create implementation drag. It chang...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Zero standing privilege for AI agents: are your controls keeping up?
Zero standing privilege is becoming the default governance model for mixed human, machine, and agent access. The article reflects a broader shift in identity security: persistent privilege is no longer a safe assumption when the workforce includes autonomous systems and machine identities. The field...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Agent and service account access: are your controls keeping up?
Standing access is the wrong default for non-human identities: the article correctly frames broad, persistent permissions as the root governance failure. Service accounts and agents do not need human-style convenience access, because their work patterns are machine-paced and often repetitive. The pr...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Agentic outages: are your access controls keeping up?
Agentic outage risk is an access-control problem disguised as an AI problem. The article is right to move the discussion away from whether the model made the right choice. Once an agent can discover a usable credential and act through it, the real question becomes whether the surrounding identity la...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic Privileged access maturity: are your controls keeping up with AI agents?
Standing privilege is becoming a structural mismatch, not just a poor practice. The report reflects a broader market shift away from persistent privilege because cloud and agentic systems operate on runtime needs, not stable human schedules. When access must exist only for a task, standing privilege...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic AI agents and runtime access: what changes for sensitive data control?
Runtime access is becoming the new control point for AI agents. The old model of granting access up front and reviewing it later does not fit systems that can act across multiple tools in a single session. For agentic workflows, the meaningful control is what the agent can do at the moment it acts, ...
3 days ago
Replied to the topic AI agent runtime access: are your privilege controls keeping up?
Runtime access control is becoming the new baseline for agentic identity governance. The article captures a real shift in control location: from provisioning and periodic review to decisioning at the moment an action is attempted. That is the right frame for AI agents because their access pattern is...