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Enhance cloud security with just in time access to Amazon EKS. Minimize operational risks and streamline Kubernetes container management.
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Time-bound admin role escalations
Temporary access that is revoked when no longer needed
Faster access for employees and contractors
Audit logs and access reviews
Just-In-Time (JIT) access is a cybersecurity strategy that aims to minimize the potential harm caused by cyber threats. It grants temporary access to resources or data only when a user needs to use them and revokes access as soon as the required tasks are completed. This reduces the attack surface by limiting the chances for hackers to gain unauthorized access to valuable assets.
1. Enhanced Least Privilege Access Control: With just in time access, user privileges in Amazon EKS only exist when necessary, effectively enforcing the principle of least privilege. This strategy significantly reduces the potential attack surface, minimizing unauthorized access to sensitive resources.
2. Reduction in Insider Threats and Human Errors: Just in time privilege escalation ensures that EKS users have the minimum permissions necessary for their work, thereby decreasing the potential for accidental misuse or intentional internal threats. It can also help prevent issues caused by misconfigurations, a common source of security vulnerabilities.
3. Improvement in Operational Efficiency: Adopting just in time access models in Amazon EKS helps streamline operational efficiency by reducing the administrative overhead of granting and revoking access rights. By automating the process of temporarily escalating privileges, it saves time and effort for the operations team, allowing them to focus on other critical tasks.
4. Simplified Audit and Compliance: With just in time access and privilege escalation, tracking who did what and when becomes straightforward, facilitating robust audit trails. Moreover, having controlled access mechanisms often simplifies the compliance process, ensuring adherence to industry regulations, security standards, and best practices.
1. Development and Testing: Just-in-time access for Amazon EKS can be handy when developers want temporary access to the environment for deploying, testing, or debugging applications.
2. Security: It can be used to provide short-term access to security teams for performing vulnerability assessments or penetration testing, ensuring no long-term security risks arise from granting continuous access.
3. Disaster Recovery: Just-in-time access for Amazon EKS can provide temporary access to teams involved in disaster recovery operations who need to access the infrastructure to restore services quickly.
1. Planning.
2. Execution.
3. Maintenance.
Entitle provides self-serve access requests, flexible policy workflows, and automated provisioning, to restrict unneeded access across cloud infra and SaaS.
1. Gain immediate visibility into all assets, roles, and access rights within your Amazon EKS infrastructure.
2. Leverage our comprehensive understanding of the modern tech stack to manage granular permissions within Amazon EKS.
3. Use Bundles to combine resources from Amazon EKS and various applications into one streamlined access request.
4. Enjoy swift installation and rollout, typically completed in a few days, with little impact on your day-to-day operations.
5. Benefit from native integration with over 100 popular cloud services and applications, offering seamless interoperability.
6. Achieve flexible customization with easy integration to on-call schedules, ticketing systems, HRIS and more for swift access, while automating user access governance and regulatory compliance tasks.
"I like Entitle because it’s one of those tools I can set up and forget about. I never have to go into it and it just works."
Mike Morrato
CISO and Global Head of IT,
Noname Security
Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed service offered by Amazon Web Services that ensures customers can run their Kubernetes applications on AWS without the need to install and manage their own Kubernetes clusters. It provides a highly reliable and scalable way to run containerized applications and services. EKS integrates with other AWS services to provide security, scalability, and reliability for your applications.
Entitle is how cloud-forward companies provide employees with temporary, granular and just-in-time access within their cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications. Entitle easily integrates with your stack, offering self-serve access requests, instant visibility into your cloud entitlements and making user access reviews a breeze.
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