Building the control plane for privileged access
Ixiea is a commercial privileged access gateway: one control plane for brokered sessions, identity-bound policy, and the audit evidence your security and compliance programs depend on.
Make privileged access the calmest part of your estate
Most organizations didn't choose their privileged access architecture. They inherited it. Bastions grew with the cloud footprint, VPN paths accumulated around acquisitions, and standing credentials quietly became the connective tissue between teams and production. The result is an access surface that no one owns and no one can fully describe.
Ixiea is built to replace that surface with a single gateway: brokered protocols, identity-bound policy, and session evidence that reads the same to an engineer, an auditor, and an incident responder. Our mission is to make privileged access boring, predictable, reviewable, and easy to defend.
Gateway-first PAM without the shelfware
We started Ixiea because privileged access too often means bastion sprawl, brittle VPN hops, and shared break-glass accounts that nobody can confidently audit. Teams need one choke point, not a map of exceptions stitched together over years.
Ixiea ships as a product, not a collection of scripts and jump boxes. You deploy the gateway in your environment, connect your identity provider, onboard assets, and enforce privileged access from a single console with session recording built in.
How we make product decisions
Every privileged path deserves an identity, a policy, and a record. We ship defaults that stand up to an audit on day one, not after six months of hardening.
Security that breaks workflows quietly gets bypassed loudly. We design for the engineer on call at 2 a.m. as much as for the auditor at quarter end.
One gateway, one console, one story for reviewers. We prefer boring, explainable mechanisms over opaque magic wrapped in dashboards.
If it can't be shown, it didn't happen. Session evidence, approvals, and revocations are product surface area, not an afterthought bolted on for compliance.
The basics
Gateway-first PAM, brokering, policy, recording, audit
Self-hosted, Kubernetes, Docker, and air-gapped installs
SSH, RDP, databases, Kubernetes, and web applications
Remote-first security and platform engineering
Work with us
Consolidate privileged access with a team that lives it
Talk to us about your current access architecture, whether you're planning a bastion retirement, preparing for an audit, or rolling out third-party access.