Zero Standing Privilege in Multi-Cloud Security

The alert came in at 02:14. Not one misconfigured key. Not one exposed API. An intruder exploiting privilege that should have been dead hours ago.

Multi-cloud security is unforgiving. Every cloud provider uses different permission models, token lifetimes, and access policies. A single long-lived credential becomes a permanent doorway. Attackers know this. They wait for the one role that never expires, the one account that bypasses MFA because it was meant to be “temporary.”

Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) eliminates that doorway. It reduces every permission to a just-in-time token, granted only when needed and destroyed the moment the task ends. No human or service has permanent rights. Every session is measured in minutes.

In a multi-cloud architecture—AWS, Azure, GCP—ZSP means unifying ephemeral access across all providers. It forces least privilege as a constant rule. You stop tracking password rotations and start killing credentials in real time. Unified orchestration assigns scoped rights at runtime, then vanishes them without a trace.

The benefits compound fast:

• No dormant privileges to harvest.
• No lateral movement across cloud accounts.
• Reduced blast radius for supply chain compromise.
• Auditable, short-lived permissions that meet compliance without endless manual reviews.

Security teams face the hardest part: orchestration at speed. Multi-cloud ZSP must integrate with cloud-native IAM, CI/CD pipelines, and service accounts without slowing deployment. Automation is mandatory.

hoop.dev delivers that automation. It provisions on-demand privileges and cuts them instantly when the job is done. It’s built to operate across clouds, enforce ZSP, and give you a single control plane for ephemeral access.

Stop trusting that “temporary” credentials will be cleaned up. See Zero Standing Privilege in action across your multi-cloud stack. Visit hoop.dev and watch it go live in minutes.