access-review
Safeguard articles tagged "access-review" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Your Access Review Checks One Node in a Graph
A user's permission listing shows no administrative access. By every direct check, they are ordinary. They can still become an administrator through a permission that looks unrelated, was granted for an unrelated reason, and lets them modify something that leads there.
Classify the Systems, Not the Documents
Four tiers, a training slide, and no effect on anything anyone does on a Tuesday. The failure is not carelessness: the scheme asks for a judgement and then does nothing with the answer.
Every Production System Has Accounts Nobody Created on Purpose
The demo tenant from the launch, the test user from a 2023 bug, the seed administrator that shipped with the first deployment. None appear on an access review, because reviews enumerate employees and these live in the product's own user table.
Your Quarterly Access Review Revoked Nothing
Managers approve everything because the task as presented cannot be done well: uninterpretable entitlement names, no usage data, and a default that costs nothing while the alternative breaks a colleague's Friday.
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