Continuous Delivery should move fast, but too often it carries silent risk: long-lived privileges that sit exposed, waiting to be misused. Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) strips that risk out of the equation. Combine it with a strong Continuous Delivery pipeline, and you get deployments that are both fast and secure without adding friction to your workflow.
Zero Standing Privilege means no one holds permanent high-level access. Credentials aren’t sitting in config files or idle accounts. Instead, they are granted only when needed, for the shortest possible time, and then revoked automatically. Every deployment in a Continuous Delivery pipeline becomes safer, because even if a credential leaks, it expires before it can be exploited.
In practice, applying ZSP to Continuous Delivery requires integrating just-in-time access into every stage. Build servers, deployment tools, and service accounts should request the permissions they need only at the moment of execution. Temporary tokens replace static secrets. Automated expiration ensures nothing lingers. This cuts the attack surface from days, weeks, or months down to minutes.