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Increase Security With Ephemeral Access Control [On-Demand]

Workforces today are dynamic, with employees, contractors, freelancers, and other third parties constantly changing roles, projects, or moving companies. This makes it difficult for IT teams to manage access controls in a timely manner and opens the door for hackers to take advantage of over-provisioned users and accounts that should have been deactivated. To counteract this issue, ephemeral access controls set temporary access rights that remove the need to manually revoke credentials. 

Watch this webinar recording to learn about the security benefits of switching to an ephemeral access control model and how this can help eliminate the burden placed on IT and Security teams. Importantly, we will discuss what ephemeral access control solutions exist today that can be integrated into your current security stack.

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Privacy Secrets Your Systems May Be Unknowingly Telling

Permissions and Privacy in User Data

Privacy has overtaken security as a top concern for many organizations. For IT professionals, the difference between privacy and security may not be apparent. Protecting sensitive data from the prying eyes of malicious users seems to be an obvious goal of application security. But privacy is more than just protecting sensitive data. Privacy is also the users’ ability to keep their data private, no matter if the data is considered sensitive or not. Giving users the ability to control who has permission to see their data and who does not have permission is an important goal of privacy.

How to Ensure Personal Data Is Kept Personal

Many IT professionals today are unaware of exactly how to ensure users’ data is kept private, or even how to determine if the users’ privacy has been violated. Relying on a member of the IT team to “know it when they see it” is not a scalable way to ensure their users’ privacy. Often, IT staff are not subject matter experts concerning the data their organization is collecting. If the sensitivity of the data is not documented and privacy standards have not been explained to everyone who works with the data, it creates an opportunity for incorrect assumptions to be made concerning what data needs to be protected, when it needs to be protected, and where it needs to be protected.