The IAM Field Guide to Zero Standing Privilege
A modern framework for eliminating persistent privileged access with the practical sequence of improvements to get there
Privilege has outgrown your visibility: Now what?
You are governing privileged access across a landscape that has expanded far beyond what legacy tools were designed to cover. Identity types have multiplied, control points have fragmented, and standing privilege is hiding in plain sight.
In this eBook, you will get:
- Exploding identity types: Human admins, contractors, service accounts, API keys, AI agents, workloads, all with privilege paths you can’t see from a single pane.
- Fragmented control points: Directories, PAM vaults, personal vaults, cloud IAM, SaaS apps, infrastructure, and privilege decisions that are spread across tools with no unified governance.
- Privilege that outlives the task: Access granted for one purpose stays active indefinitely. Unused privilege and stale entitlements compound risk silently.
- Authentication ≠ authorization: when the login decision is the only real control, what’s accessed, for how long, and under what conditions all go ungoverned.
What you will find:
Five steps to help you get from fragmented visibility to zero-standing-privilege. Built for IAM leaders who own the privilege problem.
- You are building or evolving an identity program and need a defensible framework for your roadmap
- You know standing privilege is a risk, but need a clear sequence to start reducing it
- You need to align stakeholders around a shared vision for your privilege model
- You are evaluating how identity discovery, JIT access, and runtime controls fit together
Define your path to zero-standing-privilege with the framework IAM leaders are using to move from fragmented privilege visibility to non-persistent access, step by step.
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