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Privileged access, without the back doors.

Vaulting, session brokering, just-in-time elevation, and credential hygiene across CyberArk, BeyondTrust, and Delinea. Pilot to enterprise rollout.

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Privileged access management vault visualization with credential retrieval through layered security controls
What we do

Four capabilities. One audit-ready outcome.

VAULTING

Credential vaulting and rotation

Discover, onboard, and rotate every privileged credential — domain admins, service accounts, hardcoded secrets in code, and cloud keys — under a single audit trail.

SESSIONS

Session brokering and recording

Privileged sessions are brokered, isolated, and recorded with keystroke fidelity. Reviewers see what was done, not just who logged in.

JIT

Just-in-time elevation

Standing privilege replaced with time-bound, request-driven elevation. Approvals routed by risk; the right people approve, not the inbox of last resort.

HYGIENE

Credential hygiene at scale

Service-account inventories, secret scanning across CI/CD, and a rotation cadence that survives a 50,000-account estate without drowning the platform team.

Engagement scale

Programs delivered, not just slides shipped.

Every metric below is peer-benchmarked across our active bench. References available on mutual NDA.

  • 0

    Programs delivered

  • 0

    Certified consultants

  • 0

    Active engagements

  • 0

    Vendor partnerships

How we engage

From maturity assessment to audit-ready operations.

  1. 01Discover
    Discover

    Discover

    Quantify the privileged surface: domain admins, service accounts, cloud keys, secrets in source. Map who, what, and how often each is used today.

    Discover

    Quantify the privileged surface: domain admins, service accounts, cloud keys, secrets in source. Map who, what, and how often each is used today.

  2. 02Vault
    Vault

    Vault

    Onboard the highest-risk accounts into the chosen PAM platform. Vaulting first, before any policy work — close the obvious doors.

    Vault

    Onboard the highest-risk accounts into the chosen PAM platform. Vaulting first, before any policy work — close the obvious doors.

  3. 03Broker
    Broker

    Broker

    Wire session brokering for production access paths. Eliminate direct shell access to production hosts and replace with audited, recorded sessions.

    Broker

    Wire session brokering for production access paths. Eliminate direct shell access to production hosts and replace with audited, recorded sessions.

  4. 04Eliminate
    Eliminate

    Eliminate

    Replace standing privilege with just-in-time elevation. Convert the long tail of admin accounts into request-time access, scoped and time-boxed.

    Eliminate

    Replace standing privilege with just-in-time elevation. Convert the long tail of admin accounts into request-time access, scoped and time-boxed.

  5. 05Operate
    Operate

    Operate

    Operational runbooks, on-call shadow, quarterly privileged-access certifications, and an exception policy with named approvers.

    Operate

    Operational runbooks, on-call shadow, quarterly privileged-access certifications, and an exception policy with named approvers.

Engagement track record

NDA-bound engagements, anonymized.

We hold NDA on most engagements. Tiers below reflect the buyer archetypes we have shipped programs for. References available on request, after mutual NDA.

  • TB

    Tier-1 US Bank

    FFIEC · SOX

  • CB

    Custody Bank

    GLBA · FFIEC

  • FA

    Federal Agency

    FedRAMP High

  • SS

    State System

    StateRAMP

  • HS

    Top-10 Hospital

    HIPAA · HITRUST

  • HP

    Health Payer

    HIPAA

  • FP

    FinTech Platform

    PCI-DSS · SOC 2

  • AM

    Asset Manager

    SOX · SOC 2

Deliverables

What you walk away with.

  • Privileged-access risk diagnosticQuantified privileged surface area, mapped to standing privilege, service accounts, and code secrets. Benchmarked against your size cohort.
  • Vaulting and rotation policyOnboarding playbook, rotation cadence by account class, and exception handling. Production-tested, not theoretical.
  • Session brokering reference architectureAs-built diagrams, network spec, integration points, and rollback gates for high-risk migration paths.
  • Just-in-time elevation frameworkPolicy taxonomy, approver workflows, and time-window defaults by privilege class. Wired into your ITSM tool.
  • Operational runbooksIncident response procedures, certification scripts, and an on-call shadow rotation that hands off cleanly to your team.

Vendor coverage

We bring this practice to your stack.

  • CyberArk PAM
  • Microsoft Entra ID
Engagement story

How we have done this before.

Engagement story coming soon

Connecting Sanity in the next implementation phase. Recent iam consulting engagements will surface here, filtered by practice tag.

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Where this practice fits

Context, not in isolation.

Related practices

Identity Governance Administration

Zero Trust

Automation Devops

Industries we lead in

Financial Services

Government

Healthcare

FAQ

Common questions.

  • How do you handle vaulting service accounts that touch hundreds of applications?+

    We do not vault every service account on day one — that path leads to outages. Instead we tier accounts by blast radius and rotate the highest-risk class first, with a 60-day pilot before broadening scope. Application owners get a written rotation calendar months in advance.

  • What is the right vendor for our environment?+

    It depends on your existing stack and operating model. CyberArk is the gold standard for highly regulated enterprises with on-prem and hybrid estates. BeyondTrust fits server-heavy environments. Delinea is the right answer for mid-market and cloud-first organizations. We hold no vendor preference.

  • Can you eliminate standing privilege entirely, or is that aspirational?+

    For a typical enterprise we eliminate 80–90% of standing privilege within the first year. The remaining 10–20% are break-glass and operational accounts that have a written exception with named owners and a rotation cadence — the kind auditors expect to see.

  • How does PAM intersect with cloud-native IAM (AWS IAM, Azure RBAC, GCP IAM)?+

    Cloud-native IAM solves access at the API layer; PAM solves access at the human layer. We integrate them: cloud admin consoles, IAM role assumption, and break-glass account vaulting all flow through PAM session brokering, while runtime workload identity stays cloud-native.

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Wilmington, DE

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Hyderabad, TG

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