What teams change after consolidating privileged access
A selection of field outcomes across regulated industries. Every quote is from the person who ran the program. Customer names are anonymized at their request.
- Financial services35,000 employeesA Fortune 500 financial services firm92%
reduction in standing privilege across production
Consolidated 47 regional bastion hosts and three standing VPN paths into a single Wardengate control plane. Privileged sessions for 2,100 operators and 340 third-party contractors now flow through one audited gateway with identity-bound policy and broker-injected credentials.
“We stopped having the argument about who can reach what. The policy answers it, and the policy is in git.”
Senior security engineer, privileged access program - Healthcare11,000 clinicians and operatorsNorthBay Health14 weeks
from kickoff to first external audit with Wardengate evidence
Replaced a shared break-glass account model with identity-bound access for EMR infrastructure, imaging systems, and pharmacy databases. The structured evidence exports carried the weight of the HIPAA audit cycle with no supplemental screen recorder.
“Our auditor asked one question and opened one file. That had not happened before.”
Director of information security, NorthBay Health - Transportation and logistics6,800 employees across 18 countriesLumen Logistics0
standing SSH keys in production after the v2 rollout
Retired a sprawling SSH key inventory in favor of short-lived certificates issued by Wardengate at connect time. Operators kept their existing tooling; the security team gained an identity-backed audit trail for every session against warehouse, routing, and cross-border customs systems.
“The migration went so quietly that the ops team did not realize it was done. That was the goal.”
Head of platform engineering, Lumen Logistics - Industrial manufacturing4,200 employees, 12 production sitesAxon Manufacturing63%
faster vendor access reviews for OT and control systems
Brokered third-party vendor access to OT control systems, PLC networks, and SCADA historians through Wardengate with time-bound, change-ticket-scoped policies. Vendors reach only the systems their active work requires, for the duration of the change window.
“Vendors used to show up on Monday with a key from 2019. Now they get an hour, for the thing they came to do, and nothing else.”
Plant security lead, Axon Manufacturing
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