Managing privileged access has always been a key security challenge that has become increasingly critical as cloud services evolve and organizations scale globally. Today, an organization may have multiple systems to operate in various areas and need to distribute many different access rights, creating tremendous complexity and critical risks. Let’s take a closer look at the access control processes your organization has probably had to endure for years and risks every day.
Identifying Privileged Users and Issuing Credentials
The first thing you had to deal with was identifying who in your organization should have privileged access.
Every role and every employee had to be accounted for to ensure access rights were properly allocated. You probably found that this process requires much effort, even with quality solutions, as correctly integrating all this data often remained an uphill task.
Therefore, this process was also prone to errors that could lead to duplicate accounts and incorrect allocation of access rights, which led to error or delay, increasing the risk of unauthorized access and compromising the entire organization’s security.
However, even after correctly identifying and allocating who in your organization should have privileged access, the next step was to grant credentials to employees and vendors. This step involved creating, distributing, and securely storing multiple passwords, keys, and other authentication data.
With the constant changes in team structure, managing privileged accounts and their credentials can be a nightmare, especially if you need to integrate accounts from different vendors you may be partnering with.
Also, if multiple users needed access to various systems, they often had to keep several different passwords or use different authentication mechanisms, which led to confusion and increased the potential for human error.
Your Constant Risks
These errors could lead to serious consequences. For example, the risk of compromise increases if the credentials are not properly secured or changed frequently enough. If a privileged user loses or compromises their credentials, attackers could gain access to critical systems. If such happened, you would have to change all accounts’ credentials and update them across all systems.
Managing Access to Various Systems and Applications
After successfully issuing credentials to privileged users, the next big step was managing access to various systems and applications, which required complex customization of access rights and integration with the existing infrastructure.
For each type of system or application, it was necessary to configure individual access rights to access servers only through specific protocols like RDP and SSH, to bind access to critical system segments through specific authentication mechanisms like Kerberos, to bind access rights to specific IP addresses and many other configurations.
Of course, you could use centralized access rights management systems, such as Active Directory or similar solutions, or even custom solutions developed internally. Still, even in this case, a significant manual configuration was required.
This became a particular challenge in large-scale infrastructures with multiple heterogeneous systems, where the integration of each system required a customized approach. Given the industry’s dynamic nature and the growing number and depth of threats, new systems had to be added on a regular basis, making the complexity and cost of maintaining the infrastructure prohibitive.
Your Constant Risks
Such insufficient integration between systems and excessive and improperly delineated integration could cause unauthorized access or the inability to revoke rights promptly, creating additional security risks, critical disruptions to the entire organization, or data breaches despite the abundance of integrated solutions.
Monitoring and Logging Privileged User Activity
The next critical step is monitoring and logging privileged user actions to track all actions performed by users with privileged access and identify and respond to potential threats on time.
Integrating various data sources was one of the most challenging tasks. For example, logs from Windows servers were very different in structure and content from logs from Linux servers or Cisco network devices. You had to create complex correlation rules to combine this data and create a unified view of user activity. This required significant effort and a high level of expertise.
In addition, the amount of data generated by privileged users could be overwhelming, putting additional strain on monitoring and analytics systems. Your existing infrastructure could face scalability issues when it simply couldn’t handle the volume of logs, causing important events to be missed.
As a centralized monitoring system, you could use various solutions, such as SIEM, that collect logs and events from different sources. These could be operating system systems, network devices, applications, and databases.
Your Constant Risks
However, SIEMs are still not access management systems that provide privileged session analysis and often do not include functions to manage identity mechanisms, access policies, and access controls or to automatically respond to unauthorized access attempts.
Session Management and Temporary Access Control
One of the key tasks in privileged access management remains session management and temporary access control, which is often granted for one-time or specific tasks or in case of emergency.
When you needed to grant temporary access to contractors or external specialists, you had to create separate accounts with limited privileges and configure time limits on their use.
First, creating temporary accounts was resource-intensive, especially if you needed to grant access quickly. In addition, it was difficult to monitor active sessions in real-time, especially if access was granted through different channels (for example, VPN, RDP, and SSH). You could encounter situations where sessions remained active longer than planned or where temporary accounts were not deactivated on time.
Your Constant Risks
It posed serious security risks if temporary access was not properly controlled or had limited or overly complex configurations. For example, a contractor who completed a job could continue to use their credentials to access systems. Such insufficiently controlled sessions also posed risks to critical systems, as attackers could take advantage of an open session to perform unauthorized actions.
Incident Management and Threat Response
Once monitoring processes are set up, managing security incidents and responding to threats remains the most important task.
You had to develop and implement procedures for promptly identifying and resolving incidents, which included creating sophisticated incident response plans, training employees, and regularly testing those plans for effectiveness.
And then, you needed to put mechanisms in place to respond quickly to incidents, which could include locking accounts, restricting access to certain systems, or even temporarily shutting down critical services to prevent further damage.
The unnecessary complexity of this came from the need to utilize multiple third-party solutions and manual coordination between different departments, which could slow down the response process and increase potential damage. Each division has its priorities and requirements, making it difficult to organize coordinated actions.
Your Constant Risks
If security incidents were not detected and resolved promptly and the response to them was not automated, your company could suffer significant losses, including data loss, disruption of critical systems, and jeopardizing the entire organization’s security.
Fudo ShareAccess Brings the Secure Instant Connectivity Era
Fudo ShareAccess represents a revolutionary step in access management. Built on a secure cloud-native infrastructure, it enables organizations to delegate and control access across internal teams and external parties without compromising security or operational agility.
Organizations connect to ShareAccess through a reverse SSH tunnel initiated by Fudo Enterprise, eliminating the need for VPNs or inbound firewall rules. Administrators can define who can access what, when, and for how long — all from a centralized panel.
The platform leverages a federated access model, ensuring that each organization retains full control over its users, infrastructure, and resources, while still collaborating securely.
Scalable Multi-Organizational Collaboration
Fudo ShareAccess enables secure collaboration between enterprises and third parties by establishing trusted federated relationships. Each organization retains full control over its internal identities, infrastructure, and policies while securely sharing specific resources such as RDP and SSH endpoints. Once trust is established, resource access is granted through policy-driven Safes — with no need to provision external users inside the internal environment. This approach eliminates lateral movement risk and enforces clean, auditable access paths across organizational boundaries.
Flexible and Fast Access with Just-in-Time Modes
Fudo ShareAccess supports three flexible Just-in-Time (JIT) access models — Immediate, Scheduled, and On-Demand. Immediate JIT allows time-boxed access granted instantly after approval. Scheduled JIT lets administrators define precise access windows for planned maintenance or engagements. On-demand mode offers a hybrid workflow, where the user can see the resource in their panel but must request access each time. All modes are processed through centralized approvals and auto-synchronized with Fudo Enterprise, ensuring precise control and traceability without manual intervention.
Zero Infrastructure Exposure
The entire architecture is designed to avoid inbound connectivity. Fudo Enterprise establishes outbound SSH tunnels to ShareAccess, creating isolated, encrypted communication paths for session protocols and API traffic. Each tunnel exposes randomized, short-lived ports for RDP, SSH, and WebClient connections — visible only to authenticated users and only for their authorized resources. This eliminates the need to expose Fudo Enterprise to the internet or modify the organization’s firewall topology, significantly reducing risk and deployment friction.
Zero-Knowledge Approach
Fudo ShareAccess implements a zero-knowledge security model through local encryption, browser-based key generation, and cryptographic signature verification. User keys are created and decrypted in the browser, while all sensitive operations — including login, OTP generation, and request signing — happen client-side. No user credentials, passwords, or session content are stored on the platform. Even platform operators have no way to access private keys or decrypt data, maintaining true isolation between the platform and the user’s secrets.
Transparent Licensing and Vendor Enablement
Fudo ShareAccess introduces a fair and scalable licensing model: only organizations that share their own resources pay for active members and federated relationships. External users and third-party contractors accessing shared resources incur no cost, making the platform economically viable at scale. Licenses are purchased annually per organization and can be managed dynamically by activating or deactivating users as needed.
Simple Deployment and Roadmap-Ready Architecture
Deploying Fudo ShareAccess requires no inbound network rules, VPN configurations, or architectural overhauls. With cloud-native hosting on AWS (in EU and US regions) and reverse tunnel-based design, integration takes minutes. Resource and access configuration remain inside Fudo Enterprise, while access requests and approvals are handled in ShareAccess. The upcoming roadmap includes support for new protocols, advanced RBAC, OIDC integration, and AI-powered anomaly detection — all aligned to evolving enterprise needs without compromising the current security posture.
Business Benefits at Scale
Time-to-Access Reduced from Weeks to Seconds
With Fudo ShareAccess, external collaboration no longer requires days or weeks of IT coordination, VPN setup, firewall rule changes, or temporary account provisioning. By decoupling identity management from infrastructure access and leveraging federated trust, enterprises can onboard new vendors and grant access to critical systems within minutes — without compromising internal security or overloading IT teams.
Lower Operational and Administrative Overhead
Traditional access management involves manual configuration, ticket-based request handling, and constant identity synchronization with external parties. Fudo ShareAccess eliminates this by enabling vendors to manage their own users and automating request workflows with just-in-time policies. This reduces the need for account provisioning, password resets, and user de-provisioning, saving hours of admin time and significantly lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Stronger Security and Compliance without Added Complexity
Fudo ShareAccess enforces least privilege, multi-factor authentication, and full session traceability by design. Administrators can ensure that access is granted only when required, only to the right individuals, and only for the necessary duration — all without exposing internal networks or storing sensitive data in the cloud. This strengthens compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and NIS2, while removing common points of failure seen in traditional VPN or shared credential models.
Frictionless Experience for Third Parties
Third-party contractors, partners, and service providers no longer need to install VPN clients, manage multiple credentials, or wait for back-and-forth communication. They receive one invitation, set up their account with built-in MFA, and immediately see the resources they’re authorized to request. This streamlined experience improves vendor satisfaction, accelerates project timelines, and supports agile business operations across borders and time zones.
Audit-Ready Access Control for Every Session
Every access request, policy decision, session launch, and user interaction is logged and can be correlated back to an authorized workflow in Fudo Enterprise. By keeping session data and resource policies inside the enterprise while exposing only the access request layer to ShareAccess, organizations maintain audit integrity while gaining full visibility over third-party activity. This reduces audit preparation time and supports forensic investigations when necessary.
Summary
Fudo ShareAccess eliminates VPN delays, firewall exposure, and credential sprawl by introducing federated, time-bound access between enterprises and third parties. Built on reverse tunnels, zero-knowledge encryption, and browser-based workflows, it shifts PAM from friction to instant readiness. Explore the Fudo ShareAccess and see how it fits your environment!
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