They didn’t hack your app.They logged in.
No zero-day, no exploit chain. Just a login, and the standing access already sitting on it.Attackers don’t need an exploit when they can use an identity. What they reach is whatever access was already on it.
Two ways in. Neither needs an exploit.
The weakest point is rarely the perimeter. It’s an identity that already has access, and there are two kinds attackers go looking for.Your controls protect the systems. Attackers walk past them by becoming someone those systems already trust.
An employee’s login
Hi Maya, your session expires at 17:00. Re-verify now to keep access to AWS and GitHub.
AI writes the lure in your company’s tone, or clones a manager’s voice for the helpdesk call.
…to a look-alike sign-in page sitting in the middle.
The sign-in is real and MFA passes. The attacker walks away holding Maya’s session.
AWS productionAdministratorAccessstanding
GitHubOrganisation ownerstanding
OktaSuper administratorstandingEverything Maya can reach, at any hour, because none of it ever expires.
A machine nobody remembers
02:03:09 $ ./backup.sh --env prod 02:03:10 + set -x 02:03:11 + export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIA4X••••Q7R2 02:03:11 + export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJal••••••EKEY 02:03:12 + aws s3 sync ./dump s3://acme-backups 02:04:57 ✓ 14,203 objects uploaded
Its key sits in an old CI log, a public repo or a laptop backup.
No owner, no MFA, nobody watching. Its traffic looks like any other nightly job.
S3, every buckets3:*adminRDS, every databaserds:*adminIAMiam:PassRoleescalationAdmin rights it hasn’t needed in months, still switched on.
Two doors, one root cause: standing access. It’s there whether anyone needs it or not, so it’s there when the attacker arrives.Two doors, one root cause: standing access. It sits on identities all day, every day, waiting for whoever gets hold of them next.
Ploy makes a stolen login worth nothing.
Ploy makes every entitlement just-in-time. People and machines get access for a task and a window; Ploy grants it in AWS, GitHub, Okta or wherever it lives, and removes it when the window closes. Luna clears out whatever standing access is left.Ploy moves you from access that’s always on to access that exists only while it’s being used, and Luna keeps it that way around the clock. Steal an identity and there’s nothing standing on it to use.
Just-in-time used to mean waiting. Now it takes seconds.
Zero standing privilege fails when getting access is slower than keeping it. Ploy takes three steps to switch on, and after that a routine request is approved and provisioned in seconds.Security that slows people down gets worked around. Ploy is quick to roll out and quicker to use, so the secure path is also the easy one.
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Connect what you want to lock down
Link your identity provider, your cloud accounts and the core systems where admin rights live. Ploy maps who has what on day one.Start with the systems where a stolen login would hurt most. Connect them once and Ploy shows who has access to them today.
Okta
GoogleAWS
GCP
AzureGitHub
Snowflake
Tailscale
Datadog+130 more - 02
Luna writes the policies from how your business already works
No templates to fill in. Luna reads the access that already exists, who actually uses what and how your teams approve it today, and turns that into policies on her own: who can request what, for how long, and who signs it off.No policy-writing project. Luna learns from the access, teams and approvals you already have and creates the policies automatically, so you start protected rather than with a blank page.
Policies created by Lunalearned from your existing accessliveAWS production adminon-call engineers · up to 4h · auto-approveliveGitHub organisation ownerplatform team · 1h · team lead approvesliveSnowflake ACCOUNTADMINdata team · 2h · two approvers - 03
Request access from the Ploy app, the browser extension, the desktop app, the CLI or your phone
People ask from wherever they already are. Policy approves routine requests on its own, the grant is provisioned immediately, and it comes with its expiry already attached.Employees get access in seconds, from wherever they work, so nobody needs to keep admin rights “just in case”.
requestedpolicy matchedprovisioned · expires in 2h
Luna doesn’t clock off.
Luna, our intelligence layer, works every identity, human and machine, around the clock. She expires grants on time, flags dormant and over-privileged accounts, chases owners for orphaned machines and writes every action to the record.Coverage that doesn’t depend on someone being awake. Luna works through every identity around the clock and records everything she does, so your team starts the day with the work already done.
- 02:14Revoked AdministratorAccess on AWS prod from Jon Adeyemi. His approved window ended.revoked
- 03:02Flagged svc-backup-legacy: admin rights, unused for 247 days, no owner.dormant admin
- 03:03Asked Lena Fischer in Slack to confirm she owns svc-backup-legacy.awaiting owner
- 04:41Closed three accounts a contractor left behind when their engagement ended on Friday.closed
- 06:30Expired 14 grants on schedule across AWS, GitHub and Snowflake.expired
- 06:58Posted the overnight summary to #security.summary
Avantia Law“Ploy has transformed how we do access requests & we wouldn't be able to go back to the way it was.”
Liberis“Ploy has enabled us to completely automate employee onboarding and offboarding, saving us 150 manual actions, clicks, and hours of time per employee.”
Welcome to the Jungle“With Ploy, we've turned a tedious weekly task into easy automated flows. We're saving half a day a week and have completely streamlined onboarding across all our SaaS tools. Total game changer.”
Luno“Ploy saved me from drowning in spreadsheets, manual licence assignment and SaaS sprawl. It lets us easily make sense of what's being bought, used, and wasted which is more than I can say for most software tools. The best part? They listen, iterate fast, and don't take themselves too seriously. Perfect match.”
Find the access that’s just sitting there.
The identity risk scan connects to your identity provider read-only and finds the standing admin, dormant service accounts and unowned machines around it, ranked by urgency.Start with the facts. The identity risk scan shows how much standing access you carry today, where it sits and what to close first, without changing anything in your environment.