Step Four in the FINOSEC user access review best practice series is to ensure users who have access to your systems have legitimate duties that justify not only access but their specific permissions for those systems.
Step 4 – User Access Review Best Practices: Review System Access and Permissions
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Step 3 - User Access Review Best Practices: Risk Rate Systems & Access
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Step Three in the FINOSEC user access review best practices series is to rate and prioritize the system risks you identified as the most important systems in Step Two of the UAR Best Practices and align those with the access permissions required.
User Access Review Best Practices: Step 2 - Start With The Most Important
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We learned about the importance of a System Map in Step One: Building the Foundation, last week.
This week, we are discussing Step 2 – Start with the Most Important. In this critical step in the user access review process, you will identify the most important systems by identifying the high-risk activities each system performs.
User Access Review Best Practices: Step 1 - Building the Foundation
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Let’s acknowledge a few things at the start.
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User access reviews (UAR) are important, and increasingly so.
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Examiners expect you to complete them regularly.
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They’re a crucial element of your overall cybersecurity program.
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They’re complicated and they take time.
User access reviews are (not) hard and (don’t have to) take too much time!
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Do you believe the full title? Or do you believe the parenthetic comments are a better descriptor? Here’s a simple and universal truth of the human condition: we tend to avoid tasks we think will be hard. Or complicated. Or time consuming. Or all three!
FINOSEC’s technology-based pain reliever for your user access reviews
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Financial institutions have long viewed user access reviews as a double edged sword. On one hand, regulators require them. They’re a crucial component in managing to least privilege. But they’re a challenge to conduct on a regular schedule. And if you have to rely on legacy technology and outdated manual processes, the frustrations can compound logarithmically.
But you don’t need to be stuck in the past. Help is on the way.
There is more to Cyber Insurance than you may think.
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Cybersecurity insurance is an increasingly important component of your financial institution’s overall information security program. When a data breach or other hostile technology event occurs, cybersecurity insurance proceeds can provide funds to repair your hardware, recover intellectual property, and even pay for the work you do to reverse adverse reputational impacts.
Finosec’s User Access Reporting Solution Supports 100+ Financial Systems
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Alpharetta, GA (November 8, 2022) - Finosec announced that the user access reporting process no longer needs to be labor intensive or complicated, thanks to their User Access Reporting solution. The Finosec solution operates smoothly in tandem with financial institutions and supports more than 100 financial systems and has reviewed more than 11 million user permissions.
Be ready for Cybersecurity Awareness Month – use Finosec’s Cybersecurity Awareness Toolkit
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month occurs in October. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) created it to increase general awareness of emerging online threats and how best to avoid them.
How do you manage access to all of your banking systems?
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There are likely a high number of systems in place at your institution. Running a successful financial institution relies heavily on tools and technologies that will improve the efficiencies of you and your team.