who's inside?
your tools keep getting access. who's keeping track?
Practical guides on identity, access and data security for the people who run a company's tools, data and workflows without a security team behind them. One mechanism at a time, each with a step you can take this week.
who's inside your company right now?
Usually not who you think. These are the four this publication keeps finding.
the people who left
Accounts, sessions and shared logins that outlived the job.
identity and lifecycle
the apps you clicked Allow on
OAuth grants still reading mail, calendars and drives months later.
AI and data
the admins nobody remembers
Temporary rights that became permanent, in the systems that matter most.
access and permissions
the tools nobody approved
SaaS on a card and AI tools wired into company data without an owner.
process and ownership
start here
- access & permissionsaccess debt: why permissions outlive their purposeEvery permission is granted for a reason. The reason ends, the permission stays. What that looks like in a company without a security team, why nobody catches it, and the one review that pays most of it down.
- identity & lifecycleday one, already too muchaccess creep starts before the first coffee of the first day.
- identity & lifecyclethe reorg nobody deprovisionedevery organizational change is a mass mover event. none of them trigger mass deprovisioning.
- identity & lifecyclethe contractor who's been gone for eight monthsemployees get offboarded. contractors get forgotten.
- identity & lifecyclethe identity you can't offboardhumans come and go. service accounts are forever.
- identity & lifecyclethe token that lives foreveryour SSO logout doesn't log anyone out. it just clears a cookie.
found someone inside who shouldn't be?
Tell me your situation in three questions. I reply with options that fit, including the ones that don't need a purchase, and introduce you to a vendor only if you ask.
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one mechanism, one practical step.
The letter opens soon. Until then, everything is on this site: start with the offboarding checklist.
