Why RankEZ
Privileged access is the problem.
Speed is the answer.
Eight out of ten breaches involve a privileged credential. The industry's answer has been heavier and heavier PAM, and that heaviness is exactly why it fails.
The problem
The grand problem with PAM
Every organization now runs on privileged access: administrators reaching production, developers wiring CI/CD pipelines, vendors dialling in remotely, and thousands of machine identities exchanging secrets with no human in sight. Each of those identities is a key to the kingdom, and attackers know it. Compromised privileged credentials remain the single most reliable path into an enterprise, because once an attacker holds one, they don't break in; they log in.
Legacy PAM promised to fix this and created a new problem instead: weight. Deployments that take months of consulting before the first credential is vaulted. Forests of connector servers, agents and VPNs to maintain. Standing privileges that survive because revoking them breaks workflows. Controls so slow that admins quietly route around them, leaving security teams with an expensive vault, a partial inventory, and an attack surface that never actually shrank. The cost iceberg grows below the waterline while coverage stalls.
Standing privilege
'Always-on' admin rights and stagnant credentials leave keys lying around between uses: the breach surface attackers count on.
Months to deploy
Legacy PAM means heavy infrastructure, agents on everything and long consulting engagements before any risk is retired.
Invisible identities
Machine identities, K8S workloads and shadow admin accounts multiply faster than static inventories can track.
Friction breeds bypass
When secure access is slow, engineers work around it, and every workaround is an unaudited path to production.
The shape of the answer
Access that appears on request, and disappears on its own
One grant, start to finish. This is the loop RankEZ runs millions of times a day.
- 1
Request
Anyone asks for exactly the role they need, on the resource they need it.
role: db-admin · prod
- 2
Approve
Owners decide in one click, or let policy auto-approve.
approver: policy · auto
Granted
Access appears just-in-time, scoped to the task. Green means granted.
grant_8f2c · active
- 4
Expire
Access disappears on its own. Every grant time-boxed, every action audited.
expires 14:59 · audited
The answer
How RankEZ answers it
RankEZ rebuilds PAM around one principle: speed to privilege. The platform discovers every identity, human and machine, and replaces standing access with just-in-time grants that are scoped to the task, time-boxed by policy, and audited end to end. Credentials live in a hardened vault and rotate automatically; sessions are brokered, recorded and controllable down to individual RDP, SSH and SQL commands; threat analytics baseline normal privileged behaviour and flag what isn't. Access appears the moment it's approved and disappears on its own, so least privilege stops being an aspiration and becomes the default state of your estate.
And it deploys at the speed it grants: PAM as a Service stands up in about ten minutes with a single outbound proxy, no connector forests, no VPNs, no agents on domain controllers, while the same platform runs on-premise where regulation demands it. From Core PAM's vault to VPN-less vendor access, machine-secrets management, workforce passwords, endpoint least privilege and privilege threat analytics, every product shares one policy engine and one audit trail. That is how RankEZ closes the gap the PAM industry left open: enterprise-grade control that's fast enough that nobody routes around it.
10 min
to deploy PAMaaS
Zero-infrastructure, cloud-native.
0
standing privileges
Just-in-Time by default.
99.9%
SLA
Contractually assured uptime.
500+
integrations
Plugs into your stack.
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