Regulatory pressure, compliance, and audits can be stressful and challenging to manage. The premise, as with many other things, is well begun is half done. So, the sooner you get ahead of them, the better prepared you’ll be. If you wait too long, you may risk costly fines, security breaches, and operational inefficiencies.

The key to managing this pressure is focused visibility and control over your IAM environment. By knowing who has access to what and why, you can proactively address vulnerabilities, investigate potential risks, and work towards compliance.

Let’s get into that!

How compliance challenges present

As your organisation grows, the pressure to meet regulatory compliance standards does so as well. You may start to feel like you are running after the facts, putting out all sorts of fires, without knowing exactly where the next one might present itself.

Falling behind like that, in terms of keeping up with evolving regulations, audit requirements, and access controls, risks exposing you to:

• Costly fines and reputational damage
• Security breaches due to unauthorised access or unchecked authorisations
• Missed audits and non-compliant access practices

Forward with focus

Focussing your efforts on these topics means knowing who has access to what exactly, and being in control of your IAM environment. To that point, it helps to understand and address hidden threats, instead of these threats controlling you. And while IAM may only be part of this story, we’d argue it is a foundational one.

How Authorization Analytics helps

Closing security gaps and resolving risks begins with knowing exactly what these gaps and risks are. Our Authorization Analytics service functions as a starting point for exposing them by bringing your IAM data to life. Based on your data, we:

• Visualize your IAM environment, bringing into focus hidden vulnerabilities.
• Share actionable insights, based on your own data, into the state of your IAM structure
• Provide a prioritised action plan: suggestions for closing gaps and mitigating risks.

Seeing where you might be exposed and where action is needed, you can proactively and effectively focus your resources towards addressing pressing risks.

Further reading: Four keys to effective access and authorization management

Who is this relevant for?

For anyone tasked with, and responsible for, knowing who has access to what in their organisation. More specifically, Authorization Analytics, is valuable for:

• IT, security, and GRC teams responsible for secure access management and compliance.
• Organisations in highly regulated industries dealing with sensitive data, such as finance, healthcare, and government
• Companies with growing IAM infrastructures that need a scalable solution to stay compliant, secure, and efficient.

Get ahead of risks instead of them ahead of you

Time to get (back) in control over your IAM environment! Request an Authorization Analytics demo today to find out and discover what visualising your IAM landscape, bringing into focus your structure to expose unknown unknowns, and getting actionable, prioritised recommendations for improvement can do on your path to audit-readiness and compliance.

Also and lastly, in the realm of further reading, take a look at André Koot’s paper on Identifying Stakeholders in Access Governance, and browse through an abundance of information available on the topic via IDPro’s Body of Knowledge.