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Reemo Unveils Bastion+: The Scalable Solution That Eliminates PAM Headaches Across Your Global Infrastructure

By CyberDudeBivash • October 07, 2025 • Strategic Analysis

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Strategic Analysis: Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The PAM Paradox — Why Your Most Important Security Tool is Your Biggest Headache

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a cornerstone of enterprise security. Yet, for most organizations, it’s also a source of constant frustration. Traditional PAM solutions, built for a different era, are notoriously clunky, complex, and difficult to scale. They often force system administrators and developers into slow, cumbersome workflows through bastion hosts or “jump servers,” creating a productivity bottleneck. This “PAM paradox”—where the tool designed to secure access is so painful to use that people try to bypass it—has been one of the biggest unsolved problems in identity security.

Chapter 2: Introducing Reemo Bastion+ — A New Architecture for Privileged Access

Reemo is entering the market with a new product, **Bastion+**, that aims to solve this paradox with a fundamentally different, cloud-native architecture. Instead of a centralized bastion host that acts as a traffic chokepoint, Bastion+ uses a decentralized model:

A lightweight agent is deployed on each target server or endpoint.
A cloud-native control plane holds the access policies, performs authentication, and handles logging and auditing.

When a user wants to connect to a server, they do so directly. The agent intercepts the connection, communicates with the cloud control plane to validate the policy and the user’s identity, and then brokers the connection. This decentralized model is infinitely more scalable and resilient than a traditional bastion host architecture.

Chapter 3: The Core Innovation — Just-in-Time (JIT) Access & Zero Standing Privileges

The true game-changer in Bastion+ is its **Just-in-Time (JIT)** access model. This is designed to achieve the ultimate goal of modern identity security: **Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP)**.

The Seamless Workflow:

An administrator, strongly authenticated with **phishing-resistant MFA**, opens their terminal and types `ssh server-01`.
The Bastion+ agent on their machine intercepts this. It contacts the control plane to request access.
The control plane checks the policy: “Is this user allowed to access this server at this time?”
If approved, the control plane generates a temporary, single-use SSH certificate that is valid for only a few minutes, and sends it back to the agent.
The agent seamlessly uses this certificate to complete the SSH connection. The administrator is now logged in.

There are no shared admin passwords to be stolen. There are no long-lived SSH keys to be compromised. The privileged credential exists only for the moment it is needed, and then it disappears. This is the essence of Zero Standing Privileges.

Chapter 4: The Strategic Takeaway — The Future of PAM is Ephemeral

For CISOs, the shift from traditional PAM to a JIT, Zero Standing Privileges model is a critical step in building a true **Zero Trust** architecture. Standing privileges are the fuel for lateral movement. Attackers compromise one system, find a stored credential for a privileged account, and use it to pivot to the next system. By eliminating these standing privileges, you remove the primary pathway that attackers use to escalate from a minor foothold to a catastrophic breach.

The future of access is ephemeral. Credentials should be created on demand, for a specific purpose, for the shortest possible time, and then destroyed. Solutions like Bastion+ represent the architectural shift required to make this future a reality, providing a security model that is both profoundly more secure and dramatically easier for your most important employees to use.

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About the Author

CyberDudeBivash is a cybersecurity strategist with 15+ years in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust architecture, and cloud security, advising CISOs across APAC. [Last Updated: October 07, 2025]

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