Entitlement management is the art of assigning the right permissions to the right person.
It's simple, if you are a sales person, you must have very specific software and levels of rights according to your hierarchical level or skills.
If there is a discrepancy, it must be readjusted.
It seems simple, like that, but applied to the scale of the company, it is already less obvious.
What is the point of doing that? Because there are security and risk management issues. We will verify several points in an entitlement review:
- Unused accounts, duplicate accounts, orphan accounts
- The alignment of rights for each user
- Defining the resource requirements for each type of user
- Authorization levels and elevated privileges will be more closely monitored.
All within a vision of protection against cyber risks. The fight against cyberattacks is of little use if you do not control internal human risks. Entitlement management is precisely the system for regulating employee access.
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Entitlement management in 7 points
Here are 7 points for successful authorization management:
- Enhanced monitoring of privileged accounts.
- Automated onboarding and offboarding workflows that strictly adhere to predefined processes.
- Establishing resource sensitivity levels to avoid focusing on each resource with the same intensity, monitoring only the most sensitive ones.
- External personnel must be controlled by the IT department in the same way as internal personnel. Their rights and access must be controlled.
- Regular cleanup of duplicates, orphaned accounts, and anomalies.
- Regular rights verification.
- Sanctions for security measure violations by management bodies.
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Please note that these are general rules, you must apply them intelligently so that your access rights management is sustainable over time.
To succeed in this project, 3 key elements should be remembered:
- Rigor,
- a commitment from the IT team,
- a functional process.
The idea is to ensure security for the company, not to waste your time and discourage you from doing it. There are many solutions on the market, with varying costs and complexities, that can assist you in your process. Feel free to ask us for information!
