Bastion-For-Everything Pattern
Bastion-for-everything is the design reflex of routing almost every access scenario through a bastion regardless of its nature.
Definition
Bastion-for-everything is an architectural overextension in which the bastion becomes the default answer for web access, business access, APIs, and ordinary operations. This ignores the fact that different access types require different controls such as federation, MFA, API gateways, ZTNA, or fine-grained authorization.
The Ariovis perspective
Privileged security should begin by reducing standing privilege, governing accounts and automating grants and revocations. Vaults, bastions and session controls are reserved for the use cases that genuinely need them.
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