Gartner Security & Risk 2026

Meet Apono: The Zero Standing Privilege People

Standing privileges are the biggest risk most security teams know about but haven't solved. Between admin accounts sitting idle and credentials that never expire, privileges stay available 24/7. Legacy PAM tools promise to fix it, but they just move the bottleneck, trading risk for friction.

Apono takes a different approach.

We're a cloud-native privileged access management platform that eliminates standing privileges entirely for all types of users, agents included.

Access is created at request time, scoped to the exact task, and automatically revoked when the work is done. Security teams get complete visibility and control. Engineers get instant access through the tools they already use, including Slack, Teams or CLI, meaning nobody is left waiting on tickets.

Why meet with us?

Eliminate standing privilege risk. No ambient admin accounts, no idle credentials, no privilege sprawl. All access is ephemeral and scoped to the task.
Runtime access control without the friction. Engineers request access through Slack or CLI and get exactly what they need in seconds.
Govern agentic AI before it's a problem. AI agents often inherit the same dangerous standing privileges as their users. Apono validates agent intent in real-time and scopes privileges to the specific task, so you can deploy AI safely without opening new attack surfaces.
Pass audits without the pain. Every access request, approval, and action is logged with full context. Complete audit trails show who accessed what, why it was approved, and what they did. SOC 2, HIPAA, SOX: covered.