Cygnus Technologies · Bastion

Least-privilege cloud access, by construction.

Bastion manages the entire access lifecycle across your clouds — from the request, to the smallest grant that works, to the evidence it was taken away again. For people and for machines.

See it on sample dataNo AWS account required. No sales runaround.
  • AWS IAM
  • Azure RBAC
  • GCP IAM
  • Kubernetes RBAC

No tickets · No hand-written IAM · No unreviewed access

The reality

Most companies start simple. Then the cloud grows.

Small footprint

A few AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions. Active Directory groups mapped to cloud roles. Straightforward federation, limited surface area. It works.

Scale changes everything

Dozens of accounts. Daily access requests. Stale roles. People leave. Roles change. And AI agents never sleep.

01

How do you provision access across accounts, subscriptions, and projects?

02

How do you manage the daily stream of create and modify requests?

03

How do you ensure you never over-provision?

04

What about stale access that just sits there?

05

What happens when someone leaves or changes roles?

The elephant in the room

AI agents never sleep.

They will eventually gain access. They can reach your code, your configs, and your operations at machine speed. Nothing in most environments reasons about aggregate entitlement or grant velocity.

Code & configs

Agents can explore and exploit flaws in applications and infrastructure.

Standing access

Long-lived credentials become permanent attack surface.

Machine speed

Human review processes cannot keep pace with automated requests.

The market gap

Visibility is not enough.

You can write scripts. You can buy products. Most address only part of the problem.

What exists today

Established tools excel at visibility — who has what, and the permissions attached. They show the problem. They do not own the full lifecycle of request, to least-privilege grant, to evidence-based removal.

What is still missing

A system built from the ground up to manage the entire access lifecycle across multiple clouds. Multiple approval gates. Least privilege by construction. Safe decommission. Human and machine access under the same control plane.

Introducing Bastion

Built from the ground up to address all of it.

Multi-cloud

One kernel for AWS IAM, Azure RBAC, GCP IAM, and Kubernetes RBAC.

Multiple gates

Risk-routed approvals with separation of duties. One approval authority, always.

Full lifecycle

Request, generate, approve, deploy, prove — plus evidence-based decommission.

Mission Control

Full visibility for the people who support and govern the platform.

  • One kernel, four providers
  • 0 standing cloud keys — OIDC only
  • Sandbox-first deploys
  • Permission boundaries on every role
  • Tamper-evident, hash-chained audit
  • Not process documents — code, CI and cloud
How it works

Five verbs. One path.

Every grant walks the same spine, and gets narrower at each step.

Request

Guided wizard. Policy preview as you type. Failures return guidance.

Generate

Nothing hand-written. The grant is generated and versioned.

Approve

Risk routes the review. Separation of duties throughout.

Deploy

Sandbox first, then the target. No standing keys. Replay-safe.

Prove

Hash-chained and tamper-evident. Every step leaves an artifact.

Asked forLeast privilege
Machines & agents

Doors, not keys.

Agents and CI request grants through Mission Control and machine APIs — the same five steps as everyone else.

The old way

Standing keys. Long-lived roles. Broad permissions that accumulate. No velocity limits. Agents inherit the same problems as humans — only faster.

With Bastion

Temporary doors. Every machine grant carries an expiry and a named human sponsor, with velocity and budget caps. Least privilege by construction for every principal — human or machine.

Overstate nothing

The audit chain is hash-chained and tamper-evident: each entry commits to the one before it, so a deletion or a reorder is detectable. It is not signed and not anchored — those are not switched on, so we do not claim them. We say tamper-evident, never immutable. Claims match mechanisms, including this one.

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

The safe path can also be the fast path. Tell us about your team and we'll show you Bastion on sample data — no AWS account required, no sales runaround.

Prefer email? Reach the platform team directly. info@cygnustechnologies.net