Why a Fortune 50 automotive leader chose SGNL for modern privileged access

Privileged access shouldn’t slow teams down or widen your attack surface. But for one of the world’s top automotive manufacturers, their legacy PAM system was doing both.

Requests took minutes to hours to fulfill. Approvals required manual ticket checks. Security posture wasn’t verified in real time. And in a multi-cloud environment spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP, these gaps were a growing risk.

To advance their Zero Trust strategy and enforce Zero Standing Privilege, the company launched an evaluation of modern privileged access solutions. Their goal was clear: replace manual workflows with automated, policy-driven access that reflects real-time business and security context.

What they needed

Across the evaluation process, several requirements stood out:

• Automated, policy-driven access to replace slow, manual approval paths
• Real-time contextual checks against signals from systems like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and CrowdStrike
• A cloud-native approach capable of supporting AWS, Azure, and GCP
• A unified identity data fabric that could connect business context, identity attributes, and security posture at scale

Why SGNL stood out

The turning point was SGNL’s Identity Data Fabric: a way to centralize identity, security, and business context and use it to make live access decisions. Rather than asking “Does this user have permission?”, SGNL could answer the more important question: “Should this user have access right now?”

During a three-week proof of concept, the company saw SGNL:

• Integrate seamlessly across their identity and security stack, including Entra ID, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, SailPoint, JIRA, and Slack
• Evaluate real-time business and security context before granting access
• Orchestrate session-bound, just-in-time privileged access across AWS and Azure
• Improve visibility and confidence with clear notifications and auditability

SGNL enabled them to move from reactive access management to Continuous Identity thus eliminating exposure windows and letting policy, not people, drive decisions.

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