Glossary

Explore the fundamental differences between Just-in-Time (JIT) Access, a dynamic and secure approach, and static Birthright Access

Understand Birthright Access: Automatic, baseline permissions granted upon joining an organization

Understand Key Rotation: Regularly changing cryptographic keys and credentials to boost security, minimize risk, and ensure continuous compliance

Understand Machine Identity Management: Secure and govern the digital identities of non-human entities, crucial for modern IT security and operations.

Discover Database Access Management: Secure, control, and audit who accesses your critical data, ensuring compliance and robust data protection

Discover Fine-Grained Access: precise, context-aware permissions for enhanced security, compliance, and granular control over data access

Learn about time-based access: automatically granting and revoking permissions based on predefined schedules for stronger security.

Learn about temporary access: limited duration, limited scope permissions for better security, and controlled data access.

FedRAMP: The U.S. government's stringent program for securing cloud services, ensuring robust data protection for federal agencies

SOC 2: An audit standard for service organizations, ensuring robust security, availability, and privacy controls for customer data

DPDPA: India's new digital data protection law, safeguarding personal data and outlining strict obligations for businesses

GDPR: The EU's robust data privacy law protecting personal data and empowering individuals, with global impact on businesses

Understand HIPAA: The U.S. law protecting sensitive patient health information, mandating privacy and security for healthcare data

The U.S. agency crafting essential cybersecurity standards and frameworks, guiding organizations to manage risk and boost digital defenses.

Understand SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act): The U.S. law protecting investors by mandating financial reporting and internal controls for public companies

Prevent fraud & error with Separation of Duties (SoD). Split critical tasks among different people to boost security, compliance, and trust.

Learn how inactive or dormant but enabled user accounts can become backdoors, enabling unauthorized access and compliance violations

Orphaned accounts are hidden dangers. Uncover the serious security and compliance risks of digital identities left active with no current user

The modern security framework that eliminates implicit trust, requiring continuous verification for every access request, regardless of user or device

The fundamental security principle of granting only the minimum necessary access rights, reducing risk and containing potential breaches

Security challenges posed by non-human identities like applications and AI Agents, including privilege escalation, data breaches etc

Digital entities like applications, services, AI Agents that require identity and access management, crucial for enterprise security and compliance

Grants temporary, time-limited, and purpose-specific access to sensitive resources, minimizing risk and enforcing true Least Privilege

The critical identity lifecycle processes for securely provisioning and de-provisioning access for all users, vital for security and compliance

Ensuring all access rights align with organizational policies, security needs, compliance regulations and providing auditability and control.

The framework for overseeing and ensuring that identity and access policies align with business needs, security , and regulatory requirements

The discipline for continuously assessing, managing, and improving the security configuration and risk of an organization's entire identity landscape

Identity Governance and Administration is a framework that manages and controls user identities and their access rights within an organization

The critical cybersecurity discipline that secures, monitors, and manages highly sensitive accounts and their access to an org's most valuable assets.

Discover the Model Context Protocol : A crucial standard for secure and controlled communication between AI models

Understand IAM: The foundation that ensures only authorized users and entities can access an organization's critical resources and data

Agentic AI (Artificial Intelligence) refers to AI systems designed to take autonomous action to achieve a specified goal

Access Management is the cybersecurity discipline that governs who, eg users, applications, devices, machine identities can access what resources