Most privileged work is bursty. Wardengate treats elevation as a time-limited event — requested, approved, used, and revoked — not a permanent role assignment.
Permanent admin rights accumulate silently — role drift, contractor extensions, break-glass accounts that never get disabled. Auditors ask who had access on a given date; standing grants make that answer expensive to reconstruct.
An operator requests access to a target or role for a defined window — one hour, one maintenance slot, one incident bridge. Approvers receive context: requester, target, justification, and suggested duration. On approval, the grant activates; on expiry, active sessions terminate and new connections are denied.
Route approvals through ServiceNow, Jira, or Slack so existing change-management workflows stay intact. Emergency break-glass bypasses exist but carry mandatory post-incident review and enhanced recording — using Wardengate itself.
Every JIT cycle produces a durable record: requester, approver, window, policy version, and session artifacts. SOC 2 CC6.3 and PCI 7.1 reviewers get a straight line from access request to session activity without spreadsheet reconstruction.
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