Use Case

Privileged Access Management

Eliminate standing privileges for agents and humans. Just-in-time access, session recording, and automatic revocation for every privileged operation.

harness·h-904

Adaptive

Access Requestapproved

requesterops-agent

resourceiam-role/billing-admin

reasonscheduled key rotation

✓approval 2/2

✓ttl 30m

✓session recorded

jit: on

ttl: 30m

dual-approval

The problem

AI agents and human operators need privileged access to production databases, cloud consoles, and critical infrastructure. Traditional PAM solutions were designed for human sessions — they cannot handle the speed, volume, and ephemeral nature of agent-driven privileged operations. Standing privileges persist long after they are needed, creating permanent attack surfaces.

74%

of breaches involve access to privileged accounts — the most targeted vector in enterprise environments

52%

of organizations grant AI agents the same standing privileges as human administrators

180 days

average time privileged credentials remain active after the task requiring them has completed

Legacy PAM tools treat every session as human-initiated with manual checkout and checkin workflows. Agents operate at machine speed across dozens of concurrent sessions — without purpose-built PAM controls, privileged agent access is effectively unmanaged.

The solution

Just-in-time privileged access for agents and humans with zero standing privileges

Adaptive eliminates standing privileges entirely. Every privileged operation — whether initiated by an agent or a human — receives just-in-time credentials scoped to the specific task, with automatic revocation, session recording, and full audit trails.

Benefits

How Adaptive helps

Zero Standing Privileges

No persistent privileged credentials exist anywhere. Every privileged session is provisioned on demand with credentials that expire automatically when the task completes.

Replace long-lived admin credentials with Adaptive's JIT provisioning. Agents and humans request access; credentials are created, scoped, and destroyed per session.

Just-in-Time Access

Privileged access is granted in seconds with approval workflows that support both human reviewers and policy-based auto-approval for known safe operations.

Configure approval policies per resource sensitivity — auto-approve read-only access to staging, require manager approval for production write access.

Session Recording

Every privileged session is recorded end-to-end — commands executed, queries run, responses received. Playback sessions for incident investigation or compliance review.

Enable session recording per resource type. Export recordings to your SIEM or compliance platform for long-term retention and audit readiness.

Automatic Revocation

Credentials are revoked the moment the session ends, the TTL expires, or anomalous behavior is detected. No manual cleanup, no forgotten accounts, no privilege creep.

Set TTLs per privilege level and resource type. Configure anomaly-based revocation to terminate sessions that deviate from expected behavior patterns.