Okta and AWS Identity Center enforce JIT-privileged access

Original Article

One risk IAM administrators are very familiar with is having a lack of control over credentials. Once credentials that grant privileged operations are lost or shared without permissions, they can be used to give unauthorized people elevated access to resources. A reasonable prevention strategy is to use a Just-in-Time (JIT) access model to make all access temporary by default, and reduce overall time access is granted to mission-critical systems. 

For organizations that use AWS and Okta, Okta administrators can leverage the power of Okta Access Requests to grant JIT access before anyone can access AWS resources…