Give engineers, service accounts, and AI agents the access they need at the moment they need it, scoped to the task and nothing more. Apono, now part of 1Password, grants Just-in-Time, Just-Enough access in seconds and removes it automatically when the approved window ends.
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The standing privilege problem
Most teams pick one of two bad options. They hand out broad, always-on permissions so engineers don’t get blocked, or they make every request wait in a ticket queue. Both cost you.
Engineers wait on tickets instead of shipping
Access requests can sit for hours or days. That slows delivery, stretches incident recovery time by more than 50%, and teaches engineers to over-request access they’ll never give back.
Admins get stuck maintaining roles
Static roles can’t keep up with a cloud that changes every minute. Admins spend their week on role upkeep, ticket triage, and audit cleanup instead of security work that moves the needle.
Most standing access is never used
Up to 96% of standing privileges go unused. Each one widens the blast radius if an identity is compromised, whether it belongs to a person, a service account, or an AI agent.
Solution
Stop managing permissions by hand. Apono discovers the access you already have, replaces standing permissions with short, task-scoped grants, and keeps right-sizing what’s left. Engineers request access in the tools they already use.
Access Discovery maps standing privileges, unused permissions, and dormant identities across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, databases, and SaaS. Risk Scores show which entitlements carry the most risk, so you know where to start.
Access Flows define who can get access, to what, for which actions, for how long, and who approves. Apono creates the role at request time in each platform’s native policy language, then removes it when the window closes. Low-risk requests can auto-approve, while sensitive resources route to a human.
Right-sizing recommendations turn broad access into just-enough permissions based on usage and resource context. Unused non-human identities get flagged so you can quarantine or remove them without breaking pipelines.
How it works
Every JIT access request follows the same five steps, whether it comes from an engineer, a service account, or an AI agent.
A user or AI agent asks for access in Slack, Microsoft Teams, the Apono CLI, the web portal, or an MCP-enabled AI tool through the Apono Assist MCP Server.
Apono checks the request against your Access Flow, using role, resource risk, and live context like on-call status.
Apono creates the exact permissions the task needs, natively in the target system. This is just-in-time provisioning, with no pre-built role library to maintain.
The user or agent does the task with just-enough permissions and nothing broader.
Access ends automatically when the window closes. Apono logs every request, approval, grant, and revocation.
Use cases
Production and break-glass
Databases
Kubernetes
Non-human identities
AI agents
Compliance
Engineers reach production without holding open-ended admin rights. On-call responders get scoped emergency access tied to an incident ticket, fully audited and automatically revoked when the approved access period expires. Faster response no longer leaves permanent admin rights behind.
Learn more about break-glass access
Access Flows centralize permissions across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and more. Engineers get temporary, task-specific access to the tables they need instead of standing credentials.
Learn more about secure database access
Grant namespace-level access with custom RBAC roles that expire on schedule. Risk-based approvals keep low-risk requests moving and send sensitive clusters to a reviewer.
Learn more about Kubernetes integration
Service accounts and tokens pile up long-lived permissions with no clear owner. Apono brings them under the same policy framework as people, flags overprivileged identities, and cleans up unused access without breaking pipelines.
Learn more about securing NHI
Agents request access through the Apono Assist MCP Server. Your Access Flows set scope, duration, and approvals, and sensitive actions can require a human to sign off. Agents get commands or secure portal links, not long-lived keys. For deeper runtime controls, Apono Agent Privilege Guard adds Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC).
Learn more about Agent Privilege Guard
Apono logs every request, approval, grant, and revocation. Access review reports come straight from that record, which supports SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and GDPR programs.
Learn more about compliance access
Governing cloud entitlements more broadly? See Cloud Privileged Access. Building toward always-off access? See Achieve Zero Standing Privileges.
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Apono connects through each platform’s native API, with more than 85 out-of-the-box integrations across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, databases, and developer tools. Identity context flows in from Okta, Entra ID, OneLogin, or whichever provider you already run.
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Apono vs. other approaches
Traditional PAM vaults shared admin accounts and leans on static roles. Manual processes lean on tickets. JIT PAM creates temporary, scoped permissions on demand and removes them after use.
Capability |
 |
Legacy PAM |
Manual process |
|---|---|---|---|
| When access exists | Only during an approved window, then revoked automatically | Often standing roles or checked-out credentials | Until someone remembers to remove it |
| How much access | Scoped to the resource and action, like one table or namespace | Usually role-level | Whatever the ticket grants, often broad |
| How roles are built | Created at request time, removed after use | Pre-built static roles | Pre-built static roles |
| Time to access | Seconds for policy-approved requests | Often slowed by ticket-based approvals | Often hours or days |
| Where people request | Slack, Teams, CLI, web portal, MCP-enabled AI tools | Usually a separate portal | Ticket system |
| Coverage | Cloud, Kubernetes, databases, SaaS, service accounts, and AI agents in one policy plane | Often split across modules | Varies by team |
| Secrets handling | Connector retrieves secrets from your secrets manager when needed, without caching or storing them | Credentials vaulted inside the tool | Shared or stored case by case |
| Right-sizing | Built-in discovery and recommendations | Often needs another tool | None |
| Audit trail | Every request, approval, grant, and revocation logged | Varies by module |
A Just-in-Time access management platform grants access only when someone needs it, scopes it to the task, and removes it automatically when the window ends. Apono does this for people, service accounts, and AI agents, so access behaves like a short, governed event instead of a standing permission. JIT supports Zero Standing Privileges.
Just-in-Time access controls when and how long someone has access. Just-Enough privilege controls how much that access can do. Apono applies both to every grant, so access is short-lived and narrowly scoped.
Traditional PAM usually vaults shared admin accounts and relies on static roles and proxies. JIT privileged access management creates temporary, scoped permissions on demand and removes them after use, so there's far less standing privileged access to protect. For cloud-specific controls, see cloud privileged access.
Policy-based approvals typically finish in seconds. Requests that need a person to approve them route straight to the right owner in Slack or Teams, without a ticket-queue wait.
Yes. Every request, approval, grant, and revocation is logged and available for access review reporting. That record supports SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR programs, because each grant becomes a short, traceable event.
Learn more about Just-in-Time access
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