Modern evolutions in cybersecurity revolve around two core strategies: the principle of least privilege (PoLP) and the zero trust security model. These are logical, powerful frameworks for protecting critical assets that address different security questions.
Breaches that start with stolen or misused credentials take292 days to detect on average. That’s nearly 10 months of attackers moving through systems before anyone notices.
The reason these data breaches drag on so long is that most companies have no clear picture of who has access to what. Permissions accumulate quietly over time as employees change roles, contractors come and go, and the application footprint keeps expanding.
Managing user access is simple when a company is small. But at some point, organizations outgrow whatever system they have in place — too many people, too many applications, and too many requests start flying around with no clear process to manage it.
Access provisioning is the operational process of creating accounts and granting permissions to applications, data, and systems. If access governance writes the rules for who should have access, provisioning is the mechanism that actually gives it to them.
