The cloud has revolutionized the way businesses operate. But with great power comes great responsibility. In order for businesses to reap the benefits of the cloud, they must first understand how it works and what is required to set up a secure and compliant environment.

Entitlement management is a process of controlling access to cloud-based resources. This process includes creating and managing user accounts, assigning roles and permissions, and auditing access to ensure compliance with security policies.

Why Cloud Identity Risks have increased at an alarming speed?

The number of user accounts have increased significantly due to hybrid and multi-cloud environments most companies have resulting in an explosion of entitlements. Almost all of these entitlements are privileged.

What capabilities you need to control the Cloud Identity Risk?

Visibility and traceability: Monitoring and audit trail of who has access to what, when the access was granted and when was the last time it was used, who approved it, where did the user access from etc

Credentials Management: Along with single sign-on and multi factor authentication capabilities, credential storage in a secure vault. Ability to rotate passwords and password check in and check out options.

Entitlement Policy Management & visibility: Intelligent policy driven decision making engine that allows you to manage who, what, where and when.

User and Role Management: Flexibility to define user access role and managing access outside IaC (Infrastructure as a code). Ability to create custom roles as per unique customer needs

Identity Lifecycle Management: Ability to automate onboarding, offboarding or modifying user accounts based on the events logged in HRIS.

Access Request & Certification: Governance capabilities to continuously certify the right access permissions.

Just in Time / Access on demand: Flexibility to temporarily elevate privileges and remove privileges after performing a specific job function.

Anomaly Detection & Mitigation: Inputs such as user origination, cloud context, service location, device or asset usage, etc. feed into the intelligence and provide targeted alerts. Administrators can continuously improve the quality of this decision-making by fine tuning the policies in order to perfect the alert-fidelity.

Cross-Platform Entitlement Optimization: Seamlessly aggregate entitlements from various underlying CSPs of your IaaS and PaaS services, such as AWS, Google, Azure, into a central repository. Then execute and enforce pre-configured enterprise policies across all the connected CSPs, and hence present a unified cloud-agnostic approach to governance, compliance, operations and risk auditing.

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