Britive

As cloud adoption accelerates, CISOs must deliver secure, rapid access across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DaaS while rethinking traditional authentication and privilege management. Modern enterprises increasingly operate in complex multi-cloud realities where business demand for speed and flexibility collides with fragmented proprietary IAM systems from major cloud providers and limited third-party tooling for dynamic, Just-in-Time (JIT) access. With cloud computing underpinning vast economic activity and enterprises averaging access to 210 cloud services, securing access requires intentional architectural and purchasing choices, especially as “personal” SaaS and departmental cloud accounts expand the footprint further. Many existing IAM platforms struggle to exploit the cloud’s inherent dynamism and rarely support ephemeral, time-bounded access, leaving organizations exposed to standing privileges and “zombie” privileged accounts.

Britive, founded in 2018, positions itself as a cloud-first platform unifying privileged access management across multi-cloud environments through a single dashboard. It combines PAM and CIEM-like capabilities to control entitlements and secrets for both human and machine identities, deliver analytics and real-time reporting, and—most notably—issue JIT ephemeral permissions to reduce attack surface without slowing development. Where ephemeral access cannot work, a cloud vault supports static secrets but remains aligned to the JIT model. Britive operates as an abstraction layer between identity systems and target resources via lean APIs, ensuring identities do not retain direct standing access and enforcing least privilege.

Designed for DevOps and containerized environments, Britive can integrate within containers, federate service identity using standards such as OIDC or STS, and generate expiring credentials for tools like Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible—eliminating hard-coded secrets. Agentless deployment and an accessible interface aim to shift security control closer to developers. The approach is forward-leaning: some organizations still prefer legacy PAM features and slower access for deeper governance, while Britive emphasizes Zero Standing Privilege and strict time-based control as a competitive cloud operating model.

• Enterprises operate or have access to 210 cloud services on average.
• Britive was established in 2018 by three security industry veterans.
• Britive provides a single dashboard for access management across deployed cloud platforms and applications.
• The platform issues Just-in-Time permissions across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and DaaS.
• Britive’s JIT ephemeral access engine is designed to eliminate standing privileges and zombie privileged accounts.
• A cloud vault is available for static secrets and keys when ephemeral access is not feasible.
• Britive supports integration with cloud services including Snowflake, Okta Identity Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Google Workspace.
• Deployment is agentless.
• Britive can generate temporary permissions for DevOps tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Subscription packages are offered as Starter, Core, and Ultimate with 12-, 24-, or 36-month terms, plus a free trial and a free Risk Assessment.

• “Ultimately, the cloud is the latest example of Schumpeterian creative destruction: creating wealth for those who exploit it; and leading to the demise of those that don’t.”
• “But the bottom line is that cloud-based computing continues to take over the world for one good reason – business likes it.”
• “Its JIT ephemeral access engine ensures that standing privileges and zombie privileged accounts are eliminated.”
• “This way, human and machine-based identities never see or have standing access to the application, cloud, or server layer.”
• “This is critical for admins and cloud app developers who need elevated privileges to do their job but which can equally create elevated risk if abused or compromised.”
• “This prevents permanent hard coded identifiers being placed inside containers – a known security risk that DevOps employees frequently use.”
• “Deployment is agentless which simplifies set up and is in line with the stated goal of making installation, management, and usage easy for non-traditional admins and less experienced IT security staff.”
• “It is ambitious to turn all identity access into JIT and embrace Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) across all environments—but we believe this is an achievable target with Britive’s capabilities for those environments that wish to (and can) follow that path.”
• “The concept and execution are deceptively simple, but its convenience and commitment to fast JIT access is based on innovative use of custom APIs.”
• “For those organizations that care less about session management and traditional PAM functionality, Britive offers a future where the focus on Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP), default least privilege access and strict time-based access control becomes the norm so both cloud-native companies and those beginning their cloud journey can rapidly leverage the cloud to drive their businesses.”