Comparison

Access That Doesn't Exist Can't be Exploited

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Access governance and identity management have to happen continuously at runtime, not just at review time.

Zero Standing Blast Radius

By default, every identity holds zero permissions between sessions. A compromised account has nothing persistent to exploit at rest. Access exists only for the duration it's needed, provisioned at the moment of request, revoked automatically when it ends. Blast radius doesn't accumulate. It's eliminated by architecture. 

Developer Velocity Preserved

Security should be invisible to the people building things. Britive meets engineers in the terminal, the Slack channel, and the CI/CD pipeline, not a separate portal. Transparent credential injection for AWS CLI. Per-job pipeline credentials via OIDC, no static secrets. When the secure path is faster than the workaround, developers take it. Customers report 100% adoption rates. 

Security Scales Without Headcount

Legacy PAM grows linearly with infrastructure. Every new cloud account, every new use case adds a component, an integration, and headcount to manage it. Britive's agentless, proxyless architecture breaks that model. No endpoint software. No scaling overhead. Cost grows with value, not with environment size. And consolidating four point solutions into one platform means one contract, one audit trail, one team managing it. 

Every Identity. One Governance Model.

Human engineers, Agentic AI systems, and non-human machine identities are all governed by the same access profile and policy framework. The same JIT model, the same approval workflow, the same audit trail. No separate module for AI agents. No special mode for service accounts. Identity parity isn't a roadmap item, but a key in how the platform works today. 

Continuous Compliance by Default

Access that never persists past the session doesn't accumulate to review. The access state is always current by architectural default, not by quarterly certification cycle. SOC 2, PCI DSS v4.0, NYDFS Part 500, HIPAA. The audit trail is always queryable. Evidence on demand, never assembled under deadline. 

Solution comparison

Key Use Cases

Solution comparison

Key Use Cases

Privileged user, entitlement & credential discovery

Partial

Privileged activity analysis & right-sizing

Partial

Dynamic secrets and workload identity federation

Static secrets/credentials vaulting

Out-of-the-Box Integrations for CI/CD & IaC (Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins)

Out-of-the-Box Integrations with IGA/SSO/MFA Solutions

Just-in-Time/PAM for Infrastructure (VMs, servers, DBs)

Proxy-based

Industry Leading Customers

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Customer Stories

Forbes
Splunk
Nayya
Reltio
Marqeta
Signal Sciences
"Britive takes the pain out of manual provisioning and preventing user errors that could otherwise be very costly. With Britive, we make sure that certain privileges don't go to very new junior developers with production access.

[ Sameer Patwardhan ]

SVP Technology, Forbes

"Britive finally solves the unique access management challenges for cloud applications and infrastructure."

[ Yassir Abousselham ]

CISO, Splunk

"Britive’s cloud-native privileged access solution and unified access model provides a huge advantage for our DevSecOps initiatives."

[ Dustin Goodwin ]

Head of Cyber Security, Nayya

"Britive provides complete visibility, enforcement of expanded access privileges, and automated privilege reduction when no longer required, to reduce risk."

[ Terence Runge ]

CISO, Reltio

"Britive's Agentic AI identity security product arrives at the right time. It brings policy enforcement, identity traceability, and runtime access controls for both agentic and human identities all in a unified platform that simplifies auditability, strengthens governance, and accelerates secure AI adoption."

[ Chetan Jha ]

Head of Identity Security, Marqeta

"Britive’s API-first platform for dynamic privilege management fits naturally with microservices-based cloud applications and infrastructure."

[ Andrew Peterson ]

CEO, Signal Sciences