Case Study: Marqeta achieves zero standing privileges with Britive runtime access enforcement

Marqeta cuts TCO 40% with Britive

Marqeta, a payment platform company, faced significant challenges with its just-in-time access control system. Although it appeared compliant on paper, the system relied on persistent developer accounts and roles that lingered for days, leaving standing privileges that created security risk. Furthermore, a brittle, multi-system provisioning process caused frequent bottlenecks and outages that slowed engineering velocity. To solve this, Marqeta turned to Britive for a true runtime access enforcement solution.

Britive implemented a runtime privilege enforcement platform to achieve Zero Standing Privileges across AWS, Snowflake, and Salesforce. The solution eliminated persistent accounts by natively provisioning roles only for the duration of an active session. This drastically reduced the attack surface and removed operational bottlenecks. The results included a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership by eliminating legacy infrastructure and a significant decrease in troubleshooting complexity, all while ensuring immediate, automated access for on-call engineers.

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