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Experience enhanced security and operational efficiencies with just in time access to Aptible. This feature minimizes risks, optimizes regulatory compliance and improves access 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 access is a security measure that provides access to a system or resource for a limited period of time based on specific requirements. Instead of providing constant access, permissions are granted dynamically, as and when required. This reduces the risk of unauthorized access and potential data breaches, as access rights are strictly controlled and reduced to the minimum necessary.
1. Reduced Insider Threats and Human Errors: By using just-in-time access and privilege escalation, Aptible can minimize insider threats as permission levels are temporary, and reduced to what is absolutely necessary for the task at hand. This also lowers the risk of human errors as staff don't have access to resources beyond their requirements.
2. Improved Operational Efficiency: This approach maximizes efficiency by reducing unnecessary overhead involved in managing elevated permission levels. Employees are given enough access for their task, eliminating the delay caused by excess privilege reviews and thus speeding up the overall operational procedure in Aptible.
3. Easier Auditing for Compliance: Having a just-in-time system automatically logs usage, access, and escalation activities. These logs provide crucial insight into who accessed what, making regulatory compliance for HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 within Aptible easier and more transparent.
4. Least Privilege Admin Access: Just-in-time access abides by the principle of least privilege, which means giving the minimum permissions necessary for a task. Within Aptible, this helps to limit the potential damage from an accidental misconfiguration or deliberate misuse, thereby improving security posture.
1. Managing Sensitive Data: In healthcare or financial industries, managing sensitive data like PHI or PII stored in AWS S3 can use just-in-time access to Aptible. This ensures that only authenticated users have on-time access to these resources, ensuring data security and compliance with regulations like HIPAA or GDPR.
2. Application Development & Testing: For software development companies that utilize AWS S3 for storing application data, JIT access to Aptible can provide developers and testers with timely access to the necessary resources. This increases productivity and reduces the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.
3. Incident Response: During cyber security incident response procedures, just-in-time access to Aptible can ensure fast and secure access to affected AWS S3 buckets for analysis or damage control. This shortens the response time and mitigates the potential impact of security incidents.
Just in Time (JIT) access control is a security model that restricts user access to applications, databases, and services until it's really necessary. When implemented properly, this model reduces the risk of data breaches or unauthorized access. In this guide, we'll discuss how to implement JIT access control in Aptible, a deployment platform for secure, regulatory-compliant apps and databases.
Following these steps carefully will help you to create a robust, secure and efficient JIT access system for your Aptible environment, minimizing the potential security risks while maintaining user productivity.
Entitle provides self-serve access requests, flexible policy workflows, and automated provisioning, to restrict unneeded access across cloud infra and SaaS.
"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
Aptible is a security management platform designed for developers. It provides solutions such as automatic HIPAA compliance, secure deployment platform, and cloud infrastructure for health tech startups. The company's end-to-end compliance automation mechanism aims to increase the security of businesses in the healthcare industry.
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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