Sabotage protection – or how to double-secure internal company secrets
How do you protect secret information from sabotage? You should consider two possible scenarios when answering this question: saboteurs can cause damage both from the outside and from the inside. This is because, in principle, a potential threat can also come from people within your own company.
An essential step is therefore to make sensitive documents and directories accessible only to employees who really need them for their work: Following the need-to-know principle.
In the case of vital or defense-critical facilities, these employees also receive additional training in sabotage protection.
How does the need-to-know principle work?
In principle, you should check for all data which employees need access to it. Is the knowledge that can be gained from the data really important for certain employees? In the case of highly sensitive data, you should also check whether a protection instruction has been issued.
Consistent checks for completed protective instructions are therefore one of the tasks of administrators, which in turn takes up additional time and organizational capacities. A fully automated software solution can be used to reduce this workload. Automated authorization management relieves the burden on IT administration by involving data controllers in the authorization process. At the same time, you avoid sources of error that can arise from last-minute requests.
With sustainable authorization management, the allocation of access rights becomes traceable – even years later. The BAYOOSOFT Access Manager provides you with a permanently traceable authorization situation. In addition to creating data protection classes, you can also label resources accordingly.
There is no additional work for the IT administration in terms of tracking. The documentation of authorization changes is fully automated. By continuously monitoring the existing authorization structure in the Active Directory and file system, all unexpected deviations are logged and reversed.
A look into the near future
If you still wish to set up access rights directly, this is possible. Portals for administrators and direct authorization assignments are also available within the Access Manager. The TARGET-ACTUAL comparison can be triggered here immediately and the desired right can be implemented in the system immediately – as a primary data source, traceable and secure.
