7️⃣ Final Takeaway 🔑. Access reviews reduce risk, boost compliance, and force teams to think critically about who has access to what and why. ✔️ Start small. ✔️ Focus on impact. ✔️ Make it a habit. 📌 Bookmark this thread if you’re building your review process or prepping for.

6️⃣ How to Make It Happen (With Minimal Hassle). ✅ Pull reports from your IAM or HR system. ✅ Highlight high-risk users first (admin, elevated, contractors). ✅ Pre-fill recommendations: Keep, Remove, Review. ✅ Set a due date and follow up. Add a dashboard if you want to be.

5️⃣ When to Do It?. 📅 Quarterly is the sweet spot for most orgs. 🔹 Too frequent = ignored. 🔹 Too rare = stale access. 🔹 Align with role changes, onboarding/offboarding cycles, and audits. Consistency > perfection.

4️⃣ Who Should Do It?. Not IT. Not Security. Not alone, anyway. The right people are:. 🔹 System Owners – they know who needs what. 🔹 Managers – they know team responsibilities. 🔹 Security/GRC – to guide and track the process. Ownership matters more than automation.

3️⃣ What to Review (Start Here). 🔍 Focus on high-impact areas:. 🔸 Admin access. 🔸 Finance + HR systems. 🔸 Production environments. 🔸 Identity + access management tools. Start small. Expand from there.

2️⃣ What’s the Point?. Access reviews aren’t busywork. Done right, they help you:. ✅ Enforce least privilege. ✅ Spot orphaned or risky accounts. ✅ Clean up over-permissioned users. ✅ Prepare for audits (ISO 27001, SOC 2, etc.). They're one of the simplest ways to prove.

1️⃣ Why Access Reviews Matter. 🔹 People switch roles. 🔹 Contractors overstay. 🔹 Former employees slip through the cracks. 🔹 Privileged access stacks up quietly. Every unused or unnecessary permission = a liability.

🧾 Access Reviews: Why They Matter and How to Get Them Done. Most orgs say they do access reviews. Few do them well. Fewer do them consistently. If you want to reduce risk, pass audits, and avoid awkward breaches, this thread is for you. 🧵.

🔑 Final Takeaway: Access control is one of the highest-impact areas you can clean up - if you take it seriously. ✔️ Least privilege. ✔️ Timely reviews. ✔️ No shared accounts. ✔️ Scoped, contextual, accountable access. 📌 Bookmark this thread to tighten your access strategy.

7️⃣ No Ownership or Accountability. Who owns access reviews for Salesforce? For GitHub? For that legacy database?. If it’s “nobody” or “just IT,” that’s a problem. ✅ Fix it: Assign business owners to key systems. They know who should have access - and who shouldn’t.

6️⃣ No Context-Based Controls. If anyone can log in from anywhere, anytime, with full access, that’s a red flag. ✅ Fix it:. 🔹 Use Conditional Access or risk-based policies. 🔹 Require step-up auth for sensitive actions. 🔹 Restrict by device, location, or risk level. Security.

5️⃣ Ignoring Non-Human Access. Service accounts. API keys. Automation tokens. They often:. 🔹 Have broad privileges. 🔹 Never expire. 🔹 Are hardcoded or forgotten. ✅ Fix it: Treat non-human identities like users. Scope tightly. Rotate often. Monitor usage.

4️⃣ Weak or Unenforced Offboarding. The moment someone leaves, their access should end. Not “eventually.” Not “when HR tells us.”. ✅ Fix it:. 🔹 Automate terminations. 🔹 Include vendors + interns. 🔹 Audit access logs for ghost users. Offboarding delays = free access for.

3️⃣ Shared Accounts Are Still a Thing. Yes, some orgs still use:. 🔹 "admin/admin123". 🔹 Shared logins for firewalls or servers. 🔹 One AWS or Azure account for the whole team. ✅ Fix it: Use named accounts, enforce MFA, and kill shared creds. No accountability = no visibility.

2️⃣ No Regular Access Reviews. Access granted = access forever? That’s how breaches happen. If no one’s checking:. 🔹 Who has access. 🔹 Whether they still need it. 🔹 When it was last used. Then you’re flying blind. ✅ Fix it: Run quarterly reviews. Focus on high-risk.

1️⃣ Too Much Access, Too Fast. 🔹 New hires get added to broad roles “just to get started”. 🔹 Contractors get admin because “it’s easier”. 🔹 Access requests are rubber-stamped. ✅ Fix it: Start with least privilege, not full access. Make justifications mandatory and time-bound.

🔐 The 7 Most Common Access Control Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them). Access control isn’t glamorous, but it’s one of the biggest sources of risk in every organization. Here are the mistakes I see most - and how you can fix them before they lead to a breach. 🧵.

🔑 Final Takeaway: Security architects are the glue between security, engineering, and business. ✔️ You translate strategy into structure.✔️ You prevent problems instead of reacting to them.✔️ You make security scalable. 📌 Bookmark this thread if you’re thinking about growing.

6️⃣ Navigate tradeoffs. Security vs. speed. Compliance vs. usability. Budget vs. control. Security architects make the tough calls - or guide the people who do. You need technical depth + business sense + communication skills.

5️⃣ Lead threat modeling sessions. Not every day - but often enough. Sit down with devs, product managers, and engineers to map out: . 🔹 What could go wrong.🔹 Where the biggest risks are.🔹 How to build in controls early. It’s part education, part design review, part mental.