White Papers for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

Managing Risk for Effective Access Governance

Aveska

The business risks associated with providing users access to information resources include a broad array of potentially damaging events that are caused or made possible by inadequate governance.Such events range from relatively minor policy and compliance violations to disastrous business losses.The demands of regulatory compliance are among the factors driving corporate IT and security managers to improve their access governance processes, but the issues are broader and deeper than the scope of any regulation.

The stakes involved in access-related risk have risen dramatically in recent years as organizations have become thoroughly operationalized by technology.With nearly every facet of large enterprises’ operations now dependent on or supported by automated systems, risks related to unauthorized or inappropriate access can appear anywhere within an organization at any time and spread rapidly through the business. All it takes is a single person with the wrong access. The potential cost to the business in terms of lost revenue and increased expense or in damage to customer relationships as well as the loss of corporate brand and reputation is virtually unlimited.

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