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Access Reviews
14 articles
Compliance frameworks
Access to programs and data for SOX
The SOX ITGC access controls auditors test: provisioning, removal, access reviews, privileged access and segregation of duties, with the evidence each needs.
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Compliance frameworks
PCI DSS requirement 8 and multi-factor authentication
PCI DSS 4.0 requires MFA for all access into the cardholder data environment. Which access paths need it, the exemptions, and how the MFA system must work.
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Compliance frameworks
SOX IT general controls, explained
What SOX IT general controls are, why financial auditors test them, the four areas they cover, how systems get scoped in, and how they differ from SOC 2.
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AI governance
Governing AI agents with scoped access
How to govern AI agents that act on your systems: their own identities, task-scoped permissions, approval gates for risky actions, and a usable trail.
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Risk and vendors
Managing SaaS sprawl
How to find the SaaS apps your teams already use, triage them into an owned inventory, retire the extras, and stop new sprawl without blocking the business.
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Compliance frameworks
The HIPAA minimum necessary standard
What HIPAA's minimum necessary standard requires for uses, disclosures and requests of PHI, where it does not apply, and how a SaaS vendor designs for it.
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Compliance frameworks
The FERPA school official exception
The three conditions a vendor must meet to receive student data as a FERPA school official, what direct control means for SaaS, and the redisclosure rules.
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Security engineering
Access reviews that hold up under audit
Most access reviews fail on evidence, not on rigor. Here is what an auditor samples, and the four artifacts that make a review defensible months later.
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Security engineering
Joiner, mover, leaver processes
Joiner, mover, leaver is one access process with three triggers. How to run each event from the HR record, why movers get missed, and what evidence to keep.
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Security engineering
Offboarding that removes access the same day
Late access removal is a classic audit exception. How to set a testable standard, start from a trigger you trust, and remove access in the right order.
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Security engineering
Managing privileged access
Admin accounts carry most of your access risk. How to find them, separate them, grant elevation for hours instead of years, and log what privileged users do.
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Security engineering
Least privilege in practice
Every framework asks for least privilege and none says how. Designing roles, finding excess access, separating duties on a small team, and proving all of it.
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Compliance frameworks
What the SOC 2 security criterion actually requires
The SOC 2 security category is nine series of common criteria, CC1 to CC9. What each one asks, what evidence auditors test, and what the criteria leave to you.
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Security engineering
SSO as a compliance control
Single sign-on makes access controls cheaper to run and easier to prove, but only for the apps behind it. What SSO covers, what it misses, and what to test.
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