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Vendor Access Management
The Challenge
Why Is Third-Party Access One of Your Biggest Security Risks?
Companies depend on vendors for essential services, including work that requires access to the company’s internal systems. That might mean creating accounts for third-party personnel to connect directly to your assets to provide support and maintenance. Third-party access is one of the most common initial access vectors in critical infrastructure attacks. Regulatory frameworks address this directly: NERC CIP CIP-005 requires organizations to implement and monitor electronic access controls for third-party connections to critical cyber assets, and the TSA pipeline security directive mandates access controls on vendor connections to OT networks. The risk is both operational and a compliance requirement.
Protect Every App, Workload, and Site
Wherever a third party needs access, keep it secure with MFA, SSO, and zero trust access policies across all cloud, datacenter, and cyber-physical infrastructure.
Manage Vendor Access and Prevent Attacks
Provide secure remote access while controlling every interaction and session to prevent credential abuse and insider threats.
Increase Productivity and Reduce Complexity
Manage identities, credentials, and privileges for vendors in a single solution. Accelerate business without compromising security.
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Xage’s Vendor Access Management Solution
The Xage Fabric gives you complete control over who has access to your assets, what they can do, when, and for how long—enabling third-party vendors the access they need while reducing risk. The Fabric is highly available and resilient, so policy enforcement continues locally even if one site loses network connectivity.
- Provide just-enough and just-in-time access for vendors and easily revoke access as needed.
- Automatically manage and configure access permissions from a central console.
- Enable vendor remote access without risky VPNs.
Vendor privileged access management is the practice of applying Zero Trust and just-in-time access controls to third-party users, contractor accounts, and vendor-managed systems, ensuring external parties access only what they need, only when they need it, with full session visibility and audit trails.
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Xage Fabric is a game changer in providing secure access to sensitive/critical environments.
Director of Network Engineering & Security – Energy and Utilities ($500M-1B USD)
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Ultimately, the decision to purchase Xage was simple. We asked our pilot users which solution they preferred and they unanimously selected Xage versus a couple of other products we also tested.
Security Architecture & Operations Manager – Energy and Utilities (<$50M USD)
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The platform is built around not only a zero-trust model but a trust-but-verify model as well. This takes security controls to a new level in innovation.
Senior Infrastructure Architect – Energy and Utilities ($500M-1B USD)
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Vendor Privileged Access Management
Tightly manage every third party’s privilege level and monitor privileged sessions to prevent attackers from leveraging vendor access to move within your infrastructure. Easily create granular policies to control which third-party users, applications, and devices can access critical systems and data. With Xage you can ensure security, even if vendors require privileged access to one or more of your systems.
Secure Access
Support remote and local vendor access while enacting control and monitoring of third-parties to prevent them from causing harm.
- Get built-in over-the-shoulder session monitoring and recording capabilities.
- Enable remote access to any device—no VPN, agent, or client needed.
- Simplify privilege management and easily revoke access.
Get Layered Zero Trust Security
Xage’s multi-hop architecture allows for an extra layer of security for vendor access, simplifying the configuration of firewalls and providing session and protocol termination at each layer.
- All vendor accounts and policies are centrally managed and enforced across the entire enterprise.
- An MFA overlay is an option at each layer and asset without added complexity or friction for the remote third-party user.
- Easily segment vendor accounts and privileges so they don’t have access to sensitive infrastructure.
Xage vendor access management supports compliance requirements across critical infrastructure and regulated industries, including NERC CIP CIP-005 (electronic access controls for third-party connections to critical cyber assets), the TSA pipeline security directive (vendor access controls for operational technology networks), IEC 62443 (industrial security architecture validation), and NIST SP 800-53 (access control and third-party management requirements).
Prevent Cyberattacks
Whether via a vendor or otherwise, attackers are likely to find a way to connect to your infrastructure. A strong security posture means that’s as far as they get. Xage controls access to prevent privileged accounts and living off the land techniques from being weaponized against your enterprise.
- Enable user-to-machine and machine-to-machine access control to limit attack blast radius.
- Secure file transfer between users and IT assets stops malware and ransomware from spreading.
- Prevent lateral movement with zero trust microsegmentation.
Reduce Costs, Accelerate Business
Xage overlays onto your existing infrastructure, meaning it can deploy in a day without requiring architectural changes.
- Provide needed third-party access quickly without compromising security.
- Xage multi-monitor view delivers a virtual operations center from anywhere.
- Users can collaborate remotely with outside technicians and experts, with the ability to invite approved users to remotely view or control a desktop, application, or terminal screen.
Xage Fabric holds IEC 62443-4-2 certification, independently validating its security architecture for industrial and OT environments. Certification references must appear in crawlable text.
Easy to Use
Xage gives an improved user experience while strengthening security posture.
- Enable SAML-based authentication to private apps without having to connect to the internet.
- Automatically rotate credentials and use a distributed password vault secured by a mesh architecture with no single point of failure or compromise.
- Control and orchestrate identity across multiple IdPs and AD instances to streamline access and eliminate the risks from stolen credentials and insecure devices.
Identity-Based Access from Cloud to Edge
The Xage Fabric Platform is a highly available, resilient cybersecurity mesh that can enable access, control privileges, and enforce microsegmentation to protect cloud, IT, and OT environments without any disruption of existing systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Xage enforce vendor access without a VPN?
Xage acts as an identity-based access layer between vendors and your assets. Vendors authenticate through Xage, which enforces MFA, session controls, and access policies without requiring a VPN connection to your network. This eliminates the lateral movement risk that VPNs create when a vendor account is compromised.
How does Xage vendor access management support NERC CIP CIP-005 compliance?
NERC CIP CIP-005 requires organizations to implement and monitor electronic access controls for third-party connections to critical cyber assets. Xage enforces those controls with MFA, session recording, just-in-time access, and tamper-resistant audit trails for every vendor connection to your OT environment.
Can Xage manage vendor access to legacy OT systems that cannot support agents?
Yes. Xage is agentless and works on legacy OT assets including PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, and other devices that cannot support endpoint software. No network changes or rip-and-replace required. Vendors connect through Xage without any changes to the protected asset.
What happens to vendor access when a session ends or a contract expires?
Xage uses just-in-time access with automatic session expiry. When a session ends, access is immediately revoked with no residual standing privileges. Vendor accounts can be centrally deprovisioned in seconds from a single console, without manual cleanup across multiple systems.
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