Assessing access assignment controls
Beyond establishing who can access an environment and what they can do, another important area to assess is who can configure or modify access assignments for identities. In some environments, the assignment of access may be a completely automated procedure through account life cycle workflows. However, even with this automation, it’s important to establish who can modify it and influence the access being granted. It’s also important to clarify whether there are any exception processes in place that could potentially bypass that automation.
In this walk-through, we will assess which identities can perform user and access administration. For our control, we will look at testing Azure and GCP cloud environments to validate that all user access is provisioned through the organization’s entitlement life cycle process. For our example control, we need to verify that there is no evidence of access being manually assigned.
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