Why organizations continue to do manual access reviews?

SecurEnds
2 min readJan 25, 2020

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“Manual access reviews are a pain”. We keep hearing this sentiment from CISO(s) and security heads as they grapple to comply with ever growing regulatory standards -HIPAA, SOX, CCPA, GDPR, ISO 27001, FISMA and PCI. Additionally, emailing spreadsheets of user account data to managers or application owners leads to user frustration, and is often prone to error. Every minute spent on manual access review, certification and attestation is time away from creating value for business. Then, why do companies continue to do manual reviews? Well, simply put, organizations are looking for products that are easy to configure and provide accelerated value to the business owner.

The true value of software comes through the timely deployment and faster end user adoption. At SecurEnds we believe the key to accelerating customer’s value realization is by thoughtfully applying AI/ML to core Identity Governance & Access (IGA) use cases and using modern technology to create a seamless user experience. AI/ML opens up all kinds of new possibilities to quickly identify outliers or risk patterns across an organization with 100,000 users with tens and thousands of roles and permissions. Many global organizations are using our product to:

  1. Reduce time to access reviews and certifications
  2. Strengthen security posture by eliminating orphaned accounts
  3. Preserve brand reputation during Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  4. Convert existing identity access management(IAM) such as Okta to complete Identity Governance Administration (IGA) solutions
  5. Provision and de-provision accounts in HR systems such as Workday, Paycom etc

SecurEnds provides ease of use, efficiency and gives its customers mastery over access reviews, access certifications and attestations. With our industry leading features you can achieve the following:

Access Certification : automate inadequate and/or time-consuming manual access certification, user attestations etc to meet security compliance and internal IT control requirements

Audit Evidence: demonstrate compliance with standards and provide proof-of-compliance using pre-defined audit reports, audit trail mechanisms and certification of access

Automate Provisioning and De-provisioning: streamline the review and verification (or revocation) of user’s access to different apps and resources.

Segregation of duty (SOD): create rules that prevent risky sets of access from being granted to a person. For example, the ability to both view a bank account and transfer funds to outside accounts

Analytics & Reporting: use AI/ML driven reports to identify risk outliers, generate drill down reports to identify risky entitlements

Increase Security Posture: comprehensive identity governance solution that reduces identity security risk and insider threat by eliminating orphaned and unauthorized user accounts

Centralize Visibility: Track access of all users (including contractors and partners) who join, move or leave the company

To learn more about disruptive products set up a demo and begin automating your access reviews and certifications.

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