Govern every path to privileged infrastructure
Wardengate is the single front door for administrators and contractors: brokered SSH, RDP, and database sessions under identity-backed policies—without the operational drag of bespoke bastions, shared keys, or opaque VPN hops.
Trusted by security teams consolidating privileged access
Key outcomes
Built like PAM should be: centralized, explicit, auditable
The capabilities security teams expect from a modern jump gateway— identity-first policies, protocol brokering, and session evidence— without the integration tax of stitching together legacy bastions.
Route every privileged path through Wardengate. Approve, time-bound, and revoke connectivity from one console instead of chasing hosts, firewalls, and ad hoc exceptions.
Bind sessions to verified identities and context from your IdP. Policies travel with the user—not with a static network location—so enforcement stays consistent on prem and remote.
Capture keystrokes, file activity, and administrative context for critical sessions. Export structured evidence to your SIEM and compliance workflows without bolt-on screen scrapers.
Retire brittle bastion fleets and shared break-glass boxes. Wardengate brokers access in line with policy while shrinking lateral movement and credential exposure.
Terminate protocols at the gateway and forward only what policy allows. Operators use familiar clients; security retains inspection, recording, and kill-switch control.
Map roles and groups to least-privilege targets and commands. Elevate access through workflow when needed—always with an audit trail tied to a named identity.
One brokered path between identities and infrastructure
Wardengate sits between verified identities and your sensitive targets. Your IdP stays authoritative for who someone is; the gateway decides where they may go, for how long, and what gets recorded along the way.
Identity layer
IdP / Directory
Okta · Entra · KeycloakSAML, OIDC, SCIM — authoritative source for who someone is
Admin
Human operatorNamed identity with MFA freshness and role membership
Contractor
Vendor · MSPThird-party access — approval-gated and time-bound
Gateway enforces
Policy evaluation, protocol brokering, credential injection, and session recording — before traffic reaches the target.
Brokered access path
Policy activeSAML / OIDC / SCIM from your IdP — the source of truth for who.
Policy, protocol brokering, session recording, approvals, secrets.
Servers, databases, control planes — reachable only through the gateway.
Linux · SSH
Shell, SFTP, command filtering
Windows · RDP
Desktop sessions with screen recording
Postgres · MySQL
Web DB client and CLI brokering
Kubernetes
kubectl, exec, port-forward with API-level evidence
Version your privileged access the way you version production
Author entitlements in YAML. Diff them in pull requests. Apply them with wgctl from the same pipelines you already trust. Every change is signed, auditable, and revertible.
- Declarative policy bound to IdP groups and target labels
- Dry-run plans surface impact before anything is applied
- One CLI for humans and CI — no separate admin console required
$ wgctl policy plan -f database-readonly.yamlReading policy database-readonly.yaml ...Resolving identities from idp:okta ... + allow group data-analysts → target postgres-prod-* + allow command SELECT, EXPLAIN - deny command DROP, UPDATE, DELETE + require approval from db-oncall after 18:00 UTC + record queries · ttl 365d · sink siem:splunk
Plan: 5 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.$ wgctl policy apply -f database-readonly.yaml✓ compiled · 3.2 KB✓ signed by j.rivera@wardengate.io✓ applied to control plane cp-east-1policy id: pol_b1f4a72c · revision 14What changes when the gateway owns the path
Not a rip-and-replace of your estate — a single choke point that retires the operational sprawl most PAM programs accumulate by year three.
- Fleet of bespoke bastions, each with its own users and keysOne gateway. Identities live in your IdP, not on every host
- Shared break-glass accounts nobody can honestly attributeEvery session bound to a named human or service identity
- Audit evidence stitched from 6 log sources and a screen recorderStructured, deterministic evidence exported to your SIEM
- Standing VPN exposes too much network, too oftenBrokered, time-bound access to only the targets policy allows
- Contractor offboarding means chasing SSH keys across estatesRevoke in the IdP — access through Wardengate stops instantly
Meets your stack where it already lives
Wardengate is a choke point, not another silo. Identity, secrets, approvals, and evidence all flow through the tools your teams already operate.
Identity providers
- Okta
- Azure Entra ID
- Google Workspace
- Ping
- Auth0
- Keycloak
Directories
- Active Directory
- LDAP
- SCIM 2.0
- JumpCloud
SIEM & observability
- Splunk
- Elastic
- Datadog
- Sumo Logic
- Chronicle
- Syslog
Approvals & ITSM
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira Service Management
- ServiceNow
- PagerDuty
Secrets
- HashiCorp Vault
- AWS Secrets Manager
- GCP Secret Manager
- Azure Key Vault
Automation
- Terraform provider
- Pulumi
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Argo
Global secure access
One gateway. Every region. Full visibility.
Wardengate brokers access across geographies and cloud boundaries—mapping every privileged connection back to an identity, a policy, and a recorded session.