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Improve cloud security with just in time access to Sentry, providing streamlined operations and reduced attack surfaces.
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Time-bound admin role escalations
Temporary access that is revoked when no longer needed
Faster access for employees and contractors
Audit logs and access reviews
JIT access, or Just-In-Time access, is a privilege management strategy in which users are granted necessary permissions for a resource only for the specific time they need to perform a task. After they complete their task, the permissions are immediately revoked. This approach helps to increase security by reducing the opportunities for malicious individuals to exploit unnecessary or prolonged access rights.
1. Enhancing Least Privilege Access Control: Just in time (JIT) access and privilege escalation in Sentry bolster the principle of least privilege (POLP). By enabling rights only when required, the JIT approach in Sentry greatly mitigates unauthorized access risks, reducing the attack surface and enforcing more granular access controls.
2. Reducing Insider Threats and Human Errors: Using JIT in Sentry reduces the threat posed by insiders and human errors. It limits the period during which a user has access to sensitive resources and increases the security level by limiting the duration of potentially hazardous operations, thereby preventing unauthorized access due to miscommunication or negligence.
3. Superior Operational Efficiency: Sentry's JIT access management optimizes operational efficiency by enabling real-time allocation and assessment of user permissions. This process means that permissions are seldom idle, and fewer resources are required for ongoing access rights management, leading to faster response times to threats and unexpected events.
4. Streamlined Compliance Auditing: JIT access and privilege escalation practices in Sentry provide a robust trail of historical data on user permissions that make auditing for compliance more straightforward. Compliance officers can efficiently ascertain if the access policies align with regulatory requirements, leading to improved governance and visibility around access control.
1. Emergency Fixes: If a critical issue arises that requires immediate attention, a developer can be granted just-in-time admin access to Sentry to analyze the error reports and perform necessary mitigation steps to solve the problem.
2. Security Audits and Compliance: Just-in-time admin access can be used in situations where an internal or external security audit is being conducted, allowing the auditor to inspect the system for vulnerability and compliance testing without permanent admin access.
3. Temporary Development Tasks: A developer working on a feature or debugging an issue might need temporary admin access to Sentry, with just-in-time access, they can be granted with the higher access levels for a limited period to complete their tasks, minimizing the security risks associated with permanent elevation.
1. Planning.
2. Execution.
3. Maintenance.
By adhering to this systematic approach, you'll be effectively implementing a robust Just-in-Time Access mechanism for Sentry.
Entitle provides self-serve access requests, flexible policy workflows, and automated provisioning, to restrict unneeded access across cloud infra and SaaS.
"I like Entitle because it’s one of those tools I can set up and forget about. I never have to go into it and it just works."
Mike Morrato
CISO and Global Head of IT,
Noname Security
Sentry is an open-source error tracking tool that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. It provides detailed insights and context about errors and their impact on users, which assists in understanding, reproducing, and fixing crashes faster. Sentry supports several programming languages and platforms including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, and more.
Entitle is how cloud-forward companies provide employees with temporary, granular and just-in-time access within their cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications. Entitle easily integrates with your stack, offering self-serve access requests, instant visibility into your cloud entitlements and making user access reviews a breeze.
Manage your users' on-demand and birthright permissions, all from one place.
