A bank's core systems room at night: an engineer at a rack console beside mainframe cabinets, the operations floor dark behind the glass.

Use cases

From core banking to the plant floor: where HBX fits.

Agents that reach production, and people who reach equipment on networks that aren't theirs.

HBX Agent Access

Agents on the legacy systems that still run the business.

Engineering and data

Coding agents, SRE runbooks, and pipelines that need the real database.

Internal databases, staging environments, private APIs. The access is approved for the run and has an end time, so there are no passwords pasted into prompts, none sitting in logs, and no access left standing between runs.

Reading is not the same as dropping a table or pushing to production. The destructive half waits for a person to say yes, every time, not once at setup.

Enterprise automation

The RPA bots are becoming agents. The service account is still there.

A bot that has reached the ERP for years does it with a permanent account nobody remembers creating, held at a privilege level chosen once to make the brittle parts work. Swapping the bot for an agent changes what the automation can do without changing any of that.

What replaces it is tied to the person who triggered the run, cut to the one system the task needs, and expires when the task ends. That is the only version of this migration that leaves you with less standing access than you started with.

Healthcare

An agent pulls a record out of the clinical system.

It does it under the identity of the clinician who delegated it, not under a shared integration account that every workflow in the hospital has used for six years. Patient data moves directly inside the provider's own network and never reaches an outside system, ours included.

What the record shows afterwards is which identity, which system, and which window, each time, rather than one line per integration that says the integration ran.

Financial services

An agent works a transaction against the core banking system.

The request arrives carrying the signed delegation of the customer or the employee who authorized it, so the access has a name on it before it reaches anything. The access it gets covers that one system, for that one stretch of time, and is gone afterwards.

The path opens directly between the agent and a connector standing next to the core, inside the bank's own network. Nothing about the transaction crosses HBX. And anything that moves value stops at a named approver before it runs. If you are under PCI DSS, the card industry's security rules, requirement 8.6 governs exactly these system accounts. With no permanent password to begin with, there is nothing in scope to defend, and the record of every login that ever existed goes straight to your auditor.

Government

Government agents that read records without holding the keys.

Agencies want assistants that answer citizens and move requests along, on top of registries and case systems that were never built for an agent to touch. Nobody is going to rewrite them to make that safe.

With HBX the agent reads at machine speed, and any change to a citizen's record stops until a named official approves it. Every action traces back to the person who delegated it.

Telecommunications

Agents in the network operations center, not holding the network's keys.

Operators want agents that diagnose an outage across thousands of network elements, most of them reachable only over a command line, through support systems older than the people running them.

With HBX the agent gets one element for one window. Reading state never waits, and a configuration change that could take down a region stops at a named engineer before it runs.

HBX Agent Access

HBX Human Access

Where your people reach systems they don't own.

Managed service providers

Thirty customers, thirty networks, one technician.

A plant is one plant. You have thirty of everything: thirty networks, thirty change processes, thirty ticketing systems, thirty definitions of who may approve what. One technician crosses several of them before lunch, and each one believes it is the only one. Nothing about your day is exotic; the difficulty is entirely in the count.

So a resignation means changing every shared password that person ever used, at thirty organizations, coordinated with thirty sets of people, and each of those thirty wants an audit about only itself, which one log for everything cannot answer. Revoke the person instead, and each customer gets the record of its own access.

IoT and SCADA integrators

The devices sit behind networks you don't control.

Managing them remotely has meant one of two bad options: send somebody out, or publish the device to the internet and hope the next scan misses it. Neither survives a customer who wants the first one to stop costing money and the second one to stop existing.

The connector dials outward from inside the customer's network, so nothing is opened, nothing is published, and there is no firewall exception to negotiate before an engineer can look at the equipment they are responsible for.

Industrial and OT

On a plant floor, stopping the line is the real cost.

In IT, the safe move under uncertainty is to take the thing offline. On a plant floor that instinct is inverted: stopping the line has a cost per minute somebody can quote you. So the patch waits for the shutdown, the shutdown is once or twice a year, and any control that requires touching the asset is a control that will not be deployed.

A bad command here does not corrupt a record: it moves a valve, changes a setting, or trips a line. Which is why the work happens inside an approved window agreed weeks ahead, at three in the morning, with a committee in front of it, and why the vendors and contractors who need to reach the controllers should not be carrying a standing VPN account the rest of the year.

Hardware manufacturers

Your equipment has a local interface. Your customers now expect a browser.

Remote access is the feature they ask for and the one you least want to build: firmware risk, an open door on a network you don't control, and years of work on something that isn't your product. The connector runs beside the equipment rather than on it, so the device keeps its firmware and its uptime.

The console your customers sign into is HBX. Running it under your own brand instead is a commercial arrangement on top of the same product, not a different one.

Government and public sector

Contractors reach state systems without a standing account.

Public entities run on systems that outlive every contract: registries, tax and payment platforms, case management. The operator who maintains them changes with each tender, and the access the last one had usually stays behind.

With HBX, each contractor's engineer gets one system for one window, approved by a named official. Every session leaves a record for the auditor, and nothing is left open when the contract ends.

Healthcare

Equipment vendors reach the hospital without a standing tunnel.

Imaging systems, lab analyzers and building controls are maintained by their manufacturers, from outside. The usual answer is a permanent VPN for each vendor into a network that also carries patient data.

With HBX, the vendor's engineer gets the one device they service, for the window the hospital approves, and nothing else on the network is reachable. Every session leaves a record the compliance team can show.

HBX Human Access

Bring one system and who needs to reach it.

Thirty minutes is enough to see how HBX Access would authorize that access for you.