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The Buyer's Guide to Privileged Access in the Agentic Era
"Britive describes zero standing privilege as a foundational architectural principle that has shaped the platform since its inception, rather than a capability added in response to market demand. The platform's design is consistent with that claim."
— Alejandro Leal, KuppingerCole Analysts
Key Takeaways
Privileged access remains one of the primary attack vectors in the enterprise, and the scope has widened well past administrator accounts. Privilege now sits with agentic AI, non-human identities, and people, across infrastructure where access rights are created, modified, and revoked continuously. This KuppingerCole Buyer's Compass maps the challenges buyers face, the capabilities worth weighing during an evaluation, and the questions that separate vendors during an RFP. It includes a vendor spotlight on Britive and its runtime authorization model.
What the Report Covers:
- The six challenges defining privileged access today, from privilege sprawl and non-human identities to the operational difficulty of implementing just-in-time access across complex environments
- A capability framework for evaluating vendors, weighing just-in-time access, policy-driven access control, identity discovery and visibility, cloud-native and DevOps support, session management, and credential and secrets management
- The questions to ask vendors during an RFP, including how a solution enforces control over privileged actions rather than only over access
- A vendor spotlight on Britive, covering the runtime authorization model, continuous authorization through the Shared Signals Framework, and one policy model spanning agentic AI, non-human, and human identities
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