User Access Review Checklist: 5 Must-Haves for IT Teams
Compliance policies need to keep up with cyber criminals. Regulatory demands on companies are growing which in turn drives audits. Compliance audits make IT staff nervous. You always hear of an audit as a fire drill for the IT team. If you are a typical …
Amazon Web Services (AWS): Why You Should Audit Permissions & Entitlements
AWS’s shared responsibility model is the foundational agreement between the cloud service provider and its customers that defines the distribution of responsibilities associated with security and compliance. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the organizations to secure their AWS cloud environment. The Capital One breach …
User Access Review Process: What Is It?
The user access review process is an important control activity required to ensure that employees, contractors, and partners have the correct rights and permissions within different IT resources and data. This process is run periodically (quarterly or annually) to ensure compliance requirements are met. It …
Identity as the New Perimeter: The Importance of Regular User Access Reviews
Written By: Abhi Kumar The term “identity as the new perimeter” refers to the notion that the traditional network perimeter, which was once the primary focus of security teams, is no longer an adequate means of protecting the sensitive data of an enterprise. The changing …
Identity Governance and Service Accounts
Written By : Abhi Kumar WHAT ARE SERVICE ACCOUNTS? Service accounts are a special kind of non-human account that are often used with the intention of automating a wide variety of different system functions. They have their own unique set of permissions and privileges. Service …
Why it’s Time to Democratize User Access Reviews
Even for the most streamlined organizations, the process of collecting a list of users, roles, and permissions across all systems then correlating user identities to accounts, assigning reviews to managers or application owners, and resolving or remediating all violations is anything but easy. …