Enforce least privilege with Just-in-Time access

Last updated | May 28, 2026 |

You now have the ability to grant privileged access only when needed and set time limits for access. Provide speedy access approvals — while minimizing your cloud attack surface and preventing standing privileges.

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Balance access and risk

Minimize the risk of attackers exploiting excessive privileges by granting access only when there's a clear business justification and only for a short period of time.

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Limit exposures with just-in-time access

Gain identity–driven insights for full–stack risk assessment

With leading CIEM capabilities providing full multi-cloud visibility into identities and permissions, your security team can ensure users have only the right access to the right resources at the right time — and for the right reasons. Benefit from full-stack analysis that evaluates cloud provider permission models across identity, network, compute and data resources to surface precise findings in context. With Tenable Cloud Security, your teams gain insight into identity-related risk, including excessive permissions, network exposure and hidden dangers.

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Work faster and more securely with JIT self–service workflows

Drive self-service workflows with Tenable Cloud Security’s JIT portal and empower your engineering teams to easily request and gain authorized access to required resources. Improve your multi-cloud security posture with continuous compliance monitoring. Maintain an audit trail and investigate access-related activity, including:

  • Who had access
  • What they accessed
  • When they accessed
  • Which actions they performed
  • Who recived elevated permissions (and when they did so)
  • The business justification
  • The approver
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Leverage JIT security for continuous audit and access governance

Using built-in reports, your teams can communicate with stakeholders on internal compliance, external audits and daily security activities including user activity during elevated sessions, past requests and the underlying authorization process.

  • Demonstrate your ability to meet key data privacy mandates including PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA and more
  • Produce extensive reports for internal compliance, external audit and daily security activities
  • Reduce response and investigation time in the event of a security incident
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Today, we are using Tenable Cloud Security to deliver temporary access control to a key banking client, meeting our privileged access management cloud use case, and also to rationalize permissions and better control access in our complex AWS environment.

Chris Hyde CIO, Demyst