Zero Standing Privileges Checklist - LP (Hero)

Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) Checklist

Quickly assess the maturity of your identity and access practices and uncover where standing privileges or weak controls may still expose your environment to risk.

This Zero Standing Privileges Checklist helps you evaluate the strength of your current access security program. By reviewing how identities receive, use, and retain privileged access, you can easily pinpoint where standing privileges, governance gaps, or operational risks still exist.

 

Use this checklist to identify your highest-impact remediation areas and map a clear roadmap toward achieving full Zero Standing Privileges.

What You’ll Learn Inside

This checklist walks you through the key indicators that reveal where standing privileges, weak controls, or governance gaps may still exist in your environment. You’ll evaluate areas such as:

  • Whether privileged access is still granted by default

  • How identities receive and retain elevated permissions

  • Where unused or long-lived access may still be active

  • How consistently access is reviewed, adjusted, or revoked

  • Whether access requests and approvals are documented and auditable

  • How well your existing controls enforce least privilege across teams and systems

By working through each section, you'll come away with:

  • A clear understanding of where standing privileges remain

  • A simple view of which controls and processes need improvement

  • A prioritized starting point for progressing toward Zero Standing Privileges

Who Should Use This Checklist

This resource is ideal for:

  • CISOs, security leaders, and IAM owners

  • Cloud security architects and platform engineering teams

  • DevOps & SRE leaders looking to eliminate standing privileges without slowing delivery

If you’re working toward least privilege, Zero Standing Privileges, or modernizing your identity governance model, this checklist gives you a fast and reliable benchmark.

About Apono

Apono automates Zero Standing Privileges for cloud environments by delivering just-in-time, just-enough access across both human and non-human identities. With policy-based automation, access is granted only when needed — and removed the moment it isn’t.

 

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