Why CISOs Are Choosing CloudEagle.ai for Secure Access Management?

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As organizations use an average of 400+ SaaS apps, traditional security methods struggle to keep up with the complexity and scalability required to effectively protect data across multiple platforms. This can lead to potential vulnerabilities and gaps in security coverage.

According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 14% of data breaches began with the exploitation of vulnerabilities. Thus, managing app access in hybrid and multi-cloud environments is now a top priority for CISOs. They want to implement a proper access management approach to ensure security.

To protect organizations from security vulnerabilities, CISOs need a SaaS management platform like CloudEagle.ai, which offers advanced access control features, streamlining access while bolstering security.

Let’s explore why adopting CloudEagle.ai can enhance your organization’s security.

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TL;DR

• CloudEagle.ai helps manage access across all SaaS apps, ensuring seamless control and visibility for CISOs.
• It streamlines the onboarding and offboarding process with automated access management, reducing manual effort and improving security.
• The platform offers role-based and attribute-based access control, ensuring users access only what they need.
• It offers strict access controls, real-time monitoring, and automated compliance reporting, helping organizations meet regulatory requirements like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR.
• By automating provisioning and access reviews, it reduces administrative workload and enhances operational efficiency.

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1. Challenges CISOs Face in Access Management

As organizations continue to use SaaS, CISOs face several key challenges in managing access to SaaS applications:

A. Managing Access Across Multiple Saas Apps

With each SaaS app having its access control system, maintaining consistent policies and security across all platforms can be difficult. This fragmentation makes it harder to enforce uniform access rules.

B. Balancing Security And User Convenience

CISOs must strike a balance between strong security and user convenience. Too many restrictions can disrupt workflows, while weak security increases vulnerability, making this balance tough in large organizations.

C. Tracking And Auditing Access In Real-time

Real-time visibility into user activity is crucial for spotting unauthorized access. Without this, it's challenging to track and audit access effectively, especially when managing both cloud and on-prem systems.

D. Managing Privileged Access And Insider Threats

Privileged users with elevated access rights represent a significant security risk, as they have the potential to abuse their access, either intentionally or unintentionally, leading to insider threats. 

The challenge for CISOs is unmonitored privileged user access, as they have to ensure that privileges aren’t misused. This ongoing task is crucial, as poor access management leads to data breaches and security risks.

E. Ensuring Compliance

Regulations like ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 Type II are always changing, so CISOs must keep access control policies current. Managing compliance across platforms manually with different security standards is a complex challenge.

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2. How does CloudEagle.ai help CISOs enhance access management?

CISOs are choosing CloudEagle.ai to simplify access management, thanks to its following capabilities:

A. Centralized Control & Visibility

CloudEagle.ai provides a unified dashboard for managing all your SaaS applications, giving you complete control and visibility over user access across your organization. This means you don’t need to manage multiple systems or switch between apps to check who has access to what, making SaaS management more efficient.

The platform integrates seamlessly with 500+ apps, including HRIS, finance systems, and SSO systems. This makes it easy to sync and manage access across different platforms without manual updates.

CloudEagle.ai removes the need for manual updates, making user access management more efficient, scalable, and secure. This not only improves operational efficiency but also enhances security and ensures compliance by providing clear visibility into who has access to what across all your SaaS platforms.

C. Privileged Access Management

Some users require higher-level permissions, such as access to sensitive financial data or critical systems. CloudEagle.ai automates the management of these elevated privileges. Only authorized individuals can access high-level systems.

CloudEagle.ai automatically ensures that the right people have the necessary permissions without manual intervention, reducing the chance of human error. This means administrators don’t have to spend time manually assigning or tracking elevated access rights, which can be prone to mistakes.

With automation, administrators can be confident that privileged access is managed correctly and consistently, preventing over-permissions or gaps in control. This enhances security and simplifies operations by removing the need for manual management of elevated access.

D. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

CloudEagle.ai enables role-based access control (RBAC) to manage who can access what based on their job role. This helps prevent accidental access to sensitive information.

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As your organization grows, manually managing access to a lot of apps becomes increasingly complex and time-consuming. With more employees, roles, and responsibilities, keeping track of who has access to what data or systems can quickly become a challenge.

CloudEagle.ai simplifies access management by grouping employees by job roles and automatically granting them access to the apps they need. This saves time and reduces the need for manual permission settings, ensuring employees only access what's necessary for their role.

This method helps minimize the risk of data breaches and ensures compliance with security policies and regulations. With CloudEagle.ai, CISOs can efficiently manage access while protecting their organization’s critical data.

E. Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

ABAC adds an extra layer of flexibility by controlling access based on user attributes, such as jut-in-time access, or geographic location-based access.

Just-in-time access ensures that users only have access for the time they need. Once the time is up, the system automatically revokes access, preventing any misuse. For example, if a contractual employee needs app access for a month, CloudEagle.ai will automatically revoke their permissions once the month ends.

Users can also be given app access based on different locations using CloudEagle.ai. This ensures that if someone tries to access an app from a new or unfamiliar location, the user will be marked as risky on the platform, which helps IT teams take action if needed. It gives CISOs more control by allowing access only from trusted locations.

F. Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP)

CloudEagle.ai supports the principle of least privilege (PoLP) by continuously adjusting access permissions based on each user's role. This ensures that employees only have the necessary access for their tasks, keeping the organization secure and compliant.

“It’s not enough to protect your data; you need to protect your customers’ data too.” 

– Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

If a user's account is compromised, with CloudEagle.ai, you can immediately minimize the risk by adjusting access permissions, ensuring the compromised account can only access the essential resources for that role. This helps contain the breach and prevents widespread damage, keeping the rest of the network safe.

G. Employee Onboarding & Offboarding

CloudEagle.ai streamlines employee onboarding and offboarding by automating key processes to ensure timely and accurate access management.

When a new employee joins, CloudEagle.ai instantly assigns the appropriate access based on their role. For instance, if someone joins the marketing team, they will automatically gain access to marketing apps and resources, allowing them to start working without delay.

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When an employee leaves the company, CloudEagle.ai ensures their access is swiftly revoked across all platforms, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data. This automatic deprovisioning helps mitigate security risks and ensures compliance.

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Check out this customer success story of Treasure Data to know how they streamlined employee offboarding using CloudEagle.ai.

H. Automated Access Reviews

Periodic access reviews are key for compliance with standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. CloudEagle.ai automates this process, eliminating the need to manually check access for each app.

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With automated reviews, your organization maintains compliance with industry standards without having to log into each app, saving time and reducing administrative workload.

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When access is no longer required, such as when an employee completes a project or leaves the company, it’s automatically revoked. This ensures security and compliance with minimal effort.

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3. Key Benefits for CISOs Using CloudEagle.ai for Access Management

CloudEagle.ai simplifies and strengthens this process by offering:

A. Enhanced Security & Risk Reduction

CloudEagle.ai boosts security by enforcing strict access controls, including role-based access, time-based privilege management, and real-time monitoring. It quickly flags unauthorized access attempts, allowing teams to address potential threats before they escalate.

“Security is not a one-time event. It’s an ongoing process.” 

– John Malloy, Cybersecurity Professional

B. Streamlined Compliance & Auditing

CloudEagle.ai makes compliance easier by automating reporting for standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, etc. It maintains detailed audit logs and simplifies the process of tracking user activity and generating reports for audits, saving valuable time.

C. Improved Operational Efficiency

With automated user provisioning and deprovisioning, CloudEagle.ai reduces the workload on IT teams. This streamlines onboarding and offboarding processes, improving workflows and enabling teams to focus on more important tasks.

D. Cost-Effective Management

By automating tasks like user access management and license reviews, CloudEagle.ai reduces manual effort and minimizes the risk of human error. This leads to significant cost savings, optimizes resource use, and allows IT teams to focus on critical projects.

Take a look at this testimonial from Alice Park at Remediant, where she shares how CloudEagle.ai helped them streamline the onboarding and offboarding process for Remediant.

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4. Conclusion

As the use of SaaS applications in organizations grows rapidly, securing access to sensitive data has never been more crucial for CISOs. Traditional systems aren’t built for the fast-paced, ever-evolving nature of cloud applications. CISOs need a solution that is flexible, scalable, and ensures the right people have access to the right data at the right time.

CloudEagle.ai offers exactly that. With its advanced access management capabilities, CISOs gain centralized control, real-time monitoring, and automated provisioning, all while simplifying management and boosting efficiency.

Ready to elevate your access security and streamline management?

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