Machine-to-Machine Through Bastion
Machine-to-machine through bastion is the attempt to secure API or service-to-service flows with bastion-style privileged access patterns designed for humans.
Definition
Machine-to-machine through bastion refers to the misuse of bastion logic for non-human traffic such as APIs, service calls, or application-to-application exchanges. These flows generally require identity-aware API security, gateway controls, mesh controls, and policy-driven technical authentication rather than human-oriented jump access.
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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