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Just-in-Time Access Explained: How to Eliminate Standing Privileges in Your Enterprise

· 7 min read
VaultPAM Team
Security Engineering

Most enterprise security incidents that involve privileged access share a common root cause: the compromised account had access it did not need, to systems it had not touched in weeks, with credentials that had been valid for months. The attacker did not escalate privileges — the privileges were already there, standing, waiting. This is the standing privilege problem, and it is the specific gap that just-in-time access is designed to close.