Just-In-Time Privilege Elevation in Zscaler

The alert fired at 02:17. Access requests spiked, but the accounts triggering them had no business doing so. In most networks, that’s where panic begins. In a Zscaler deployment with Just-In-Time Privilege Elevation, it’s where control tightens.

Just-In-Time Privilege Elevation in Zscaler grants elevated rights only when needed, for the shortest duration possible. This model shuts down standing privileges, stripping attackers of the static access they rely on. When a user requests admin rights—say, to push a deployment or change a configuration—Zscaler brokers the approval, enforces policy, and logs every action. No lingering credentials. No open windows.

This approach hardens endpoints and cloud resources against credential theft. It works with Zscaler Private Access to funnel elevated sessions through secure channels and with Zscaler Internet Access to lock outbound traffic. Policies define which tasks require privilege. Requests expire. Tokens vanish when the work ends. Auditors gain a clean trail: user, time, action, and justification.

For engineers, the operational gains are huge. No more sharing admin accounts. No more all-day elevated shells. Managers get risk reduction without slowing projects down. Privileges appear just long enough to perform the job, then dissolve back to zero.

Attack surface drops. Compliance posture rises. And the organization moves from reactive to proactive security. Just-In-Time Privilege Elevation in Zscaler is not theory—it’s a workflow you can run now.

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