What rules should apply to vendor remote support in your network?
Vendor support often needs access to your systems. Rules IT teams can set: who approves, how long it lasts, what is recorded and how access ends.
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Vendor support often needs access to your systems. Rules IT teams can set: who approves, how long it lasts, what is recorded and how access ends.
Almost never. Admin rights make a bot an attractive target and a bigger accident. Here is how to work out the minimum access a bot actually needs.
Route supply chain questions by risk: what sales can answer from an approved library, what needs an engineer, and what needs a written, reviewed reply.
With no security hire, rotate a named security owner each month or quarter, with one accountable lead. Duties, handoff notes and warning signs.
Rotate a registry token in CI with an overlap window: create the new one, update secrets, canary, then revoke the old. Steps, timing and rollback.
Tag the last good commit, keep the old build runnable for one release, define rollback triggers, and document how to rebuild from the old lockfile.
Deploy Office add-ins from the Microsoft 365 admin center in three phases, and know that marketplace add-ins update automatically. A review and rollout plan.
A five stage rollout for browser and editor extension policy: inventory, pilot, message, enforce, review. With a table of what to measure at each stage.
A role demotion test loops every non-admin role, including anonymous, over every admin route and expects a denial. Steps, a checklist and what to assert.
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