Give Vendors the Access They Need—and Nothing More
Replace permanent third-party access and shared administrator credentials with controlled, temporary, and auditable privileged sessions.
Review Your Vendor AccessVendor Access Often Outlives the Work It Was Created For
Third parties need to support servers, applications, cloud infrastructure, network devices, databases, and industrial systems. The easiest access method can become permanent, overly broad, and difficult to review.
Shared administrator passwords obscure individual accountability. Standing VPN accounts expand exposure. Without session evidence, teams may know a vendor connected but not what actions were performed.
- Permanent accounts for occasional support
- Shared privileged credentials
- Access that reaches unrelated systems
- Manual, inconsistent offboarding
Control access without blocking support
WTSS helps organizations create an access path built around identity, purpose, target, and time. Credentials can remain protected, sessions can be governed through requests or approvals, and access history can support review and investigation.
How It Works
Identify
Associate access with a named vendor user and a defined business purpose.
Approve
Apply the required request, approval, target, and scheduling controls.
Connect
Broker the supported session while keeping managed credentials isolated.
Expire and Review
End access on schedule and retain evidence appropriate to the workflow.
Make Third-Party Access Accountable
Reduce Standing Access
Use defined access windows instead of permanent vendor accounts.
Eliminate Sharing
Keep privileged passwords out of email, tickets, and vendor hands.
Limit Reach
Constrain users to the approved systems and access methods.
Record Activity
Retain supported session evidence for investigation and oversight.
Simplify Termination
Expire access without chasing down every shared credential.
Support Reviews
Centralize access history for security and compliance processes.
Common Vendor Access Targets
Technology and architecture
A validated design may combine credential isolation, privileged session proxying, session recording, approval workflows, request-based access, and automatic expiration. One Identity Safeguard can provide enabling controls as part of a broader access architecture designed by WTSS.
Find the Standing Access You Can Replace
We can help inventory third-party access, identify high-risk paths, and design controls that preserve the support your organization relies on.