Third-Party & Contractor Access

The Third-Party Access Risk

Contractors, vendors, managed service providers, and business partners need access to your systems to do their jobs — but every third-party credential you hand over is a potential breach vector.

When a contractor leaves, a vendor relationship ends, or a partner’s security posture degrades, that shared credential becomes a liability. Yet most organizations still don’t limit the scope of third-party privileges, don’t record what these users actually do, and don’t revoke access when the work is done. PDAccess eliminates that risk with time-boxed, fully recorded access and no standing credentials.

Time-Boxed, Just-in-Time Access

Instead of standing access that outlives the work, PDAccess grants access for exactly the window it’s needed — and removes it automatically when the window closes.

• Just-in-time — access is granted when a task starts, not before.
• Auto-expiring — a six-month contract gets six months of access; when it ends, access is gone with no action required.
• No extensions to chase — access is scoped to the work, so there’s no “just one more week” tail.

This is the difference between a credential you can’t reclaim and a session that ends on its own.

No Standing Credentials

The most important guarantee: third parties never hold a credential to your systems.

• Zero-knowledge brokering — PDAccess brokers the connection from its vault; the contractor never sees, touches, or stores a password.
• No credential handoffs — nothing is sent over email, chat, or a spreadsheet.
• Automatic revocation — when access ends, it’s revoked even if the underlying system password never changed.

There is no standing third-party credential left behind to become a future breach.

Recorded Sessions

Every third-party session is recorded in full, giving you a complete forensic record of what a contractor actually did inside your systems.

• Full session recording — text and graphical sessions captured from start to finish.
• Command and query logging — exactly which commands, queries, and actions were performed.
• On-demand review — pull any past session for an audit or an investigation.

You can finally prove, to an auditor or to yourself, what a vendor did when they had access.

Per-Session Identity

Every third-party session runs under its own identity, so accountability is real rather than theoretical.

• Unique identity per session — no shared “admin” account standing in for a dozen vendors.
• Forced MFA — multi-factor authentication applied to every third-party connection.
• Scoped roles — a billing contractor sees the financial portal; a DevOps contractor sees specific hosts — least privilege by default.

When something happens, you know exactly which session — and which person — was responsible.

The Business Impact

Organizations using PDAccess for third-party and contractor access achieve:

• Eliminated standing credentials — no shared passwords left behind when the work is done
• Automatic revocation — access expires and is removed without manual effort
• Complete audit trails — every session is recorded, searchable, and attributable
• Compliance-ready — meets PCI-DSS, SOX, and HIPAA third-party access requirements
• Faster onboarding — new contractors get scoped access in minutes, not days

Bottom Line

Third-party access doesn’t have to be a security risk. With PDAccess, you give contractors and vendors exactly the access they need — for exactly the time they need it — with no standing credentials, forced MFA, per-session identity, and a full record of every action. That’s how you collaborate with third parties securely, at scale.

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