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Insider access risk is very real and the incidents of misuse of access are on the rise regardless of industry or company size. Organizations are much more risk-aware today and understand the need to implement an access control framework to identify and manage risk before it impacts and organization. The consequences of not governing user access can result in regulatory fines and penalties as well as the loss of corporate data, customer revenue and brand reputation. To avoid becoming vulnerable to exposure, and to address compliance risk issues, it is critical that organizations are able to answer the following questions:
• Do you know who has access to what information resources, how they got it and who
approved it?
• Do you know whether the access is necessary and appropriate for the user’s job function?
• Do you know if the access creates any compliance or corporate policy violations?
• Can you map risk sensitivity ratings for user roles or entitlements to information resource
risk sensitivity?
• Can you dynamically monitor user entitlements to identify toxic combinations outside of an
access review?
• Can you kick off remediation, approval or review workflows based on event-driven access
rules?
Managing access risk shouldn’t require an advanced mathematics degree. Quantifying access risk with complex algorithms that require every information resource, all entitlements in the resource and every user accessing the resource to be assigned a risk score is not practical for an organization to implement or use. It’s only measuring the inherency of access risk.
Aveksa has a better way. If risk is inherent, because the event or condition is known (e.g. SoD violation, predetermined toxic combination or inappropriate access for the role), it is much better to manage the risk by avoiding it all together. Access policy rules and controls are the key to mitigating risk by providing an automated approach for remediation when an access risk is identified. Since not all access risks are equal, the response will vary depending on the policy definition for the response required for the risk.
Aveksa provides the enterprise-wide access visibility, key risk indicators and metrics that deliver actionable insight into user entitlements and roles, high-risk users and applications, the status of terminated accounts, compliance violations, change management and remediation workflows and access certifications.
The Aveksa Enterprise Access Governance Platform enables organizations to establish visibility, enforce policies, automate processes, provide business context to enable business managers to participate in governing access.