{"id":46793,"date":"2021-04-16T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcon.xyz\/risk-to-watch\/agility-innovation-and-access-control\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:42:48","slug":"agility-innovation-and-access-control","status":"publish","type":"risk-to-watch","link":"https:\/\/arcon.xyz\/staging01\/risk-to-watch\/agility-innovation-and-access-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Agility, Innovation and Access Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cloud-first approach is gaining prominence among the IT heads. Operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness are the obvious components that make the difference between traditional on-prem and public cloud data-centre architectures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, there is a range of services, tools and infrastructure offered by cloud platforms to foster innovation. Take, for example, microservices, big data analytics, container platforms, and Continuous Delivery and Release Automation.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvWvp40U1vg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start lazyload\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start lazyload\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start lazyload\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These emerging technologies have transformed the applications development process. Building applications is now easier, faster and cheaper than before. And the developers can build applications and deploy it on any environment, on-scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the cloud-first approach will be half-baked if it is devoid of adequate access control mechanisms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take, for example, DevOps engineering. There is a theoretical view that knowledge-sharing, expertise, and exchangeable ideas make DevOps an agile development methodology. Nevertheless, it also means that members of the DevOps team will have a complete control over the tool-chains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, uncontrolled and unmonitored access to DevOps tool-chains is against the principles of role and rule-based access control. What if any team member takes advantage of the non-segregation of duties and misuses the confidential information?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, it is always advisable to have a tight access control in any environment. The IT security teams must tread a fine balance between agility, innovation and access to information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that\u2019s why<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arconnet.com\/products\/privileged-access-management\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ARCON Privileged Access Management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PAM) plays an important role in ensuring that your cloud-first strategy is a success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ARCON | PAM offers all important attributes to enforce segregation of duties including automated management and vaulting of credentials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Vault, an element of ARCON | PAM and cloud-native application, has all advanced attributes such as on-boarding of user groups, workflow matrix,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arconnet.com\/resources\/whitepapers\/just-in-time-privileges\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">just-in-time access<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to secrets, keys and certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please read this<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arconnet.com\/reports\/kuppingercole-executive-view-report-arcon-pam-saas\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">executive view on how ARCON | PAM SaaS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers comprehensive access control environment and supports your cloud-first strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The bottom-line<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A gamut of emerging technologies promises agile development methodologies and faster innovation. However, the access control security is a critical component to ensure the digital transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud-first approach is gaining prominence among the IT heads. Operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness are the obvious components that make the difference between traditional on-prem and public cloud data-centre architectures. In addition, there is a range of services, tools and infrastructure offered by cloud platforms to foster innovation. Take, for example, microservices, big data analytics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":47595,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"risk-categories":[],"class_list":["post-46793","risk-to-watch","type-risk-to-watch","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"blog_inner_page_contents":[{"acf_fc_layout":"hero_section","image":47595,"news_logo":"","publish_date":"","reading_time":"","heading":"","para":"","cta_text":"","cta_url":"","is_featured_post":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"page_contents","social_media_items":null,"sidebar_item_desktop":[{"id":"Overview","item_name":"Overview"},{"id":"Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM","item_name":"Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM"},{"id":"The bottom-line","item_name":"The bottom-line"}],"contents":[{"id":"Overview","title":"Overview","content":"The cloud-first approach is gaining prominence among the IT heads. Operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness are the obvious components that make the difference between traditional on-prem and public cloud data-centre architectures.\r\n\r\nIn addition, there is a range of services, tools and infrastructure offered by cloud platforms to foster innovation. Take, for example, microservices, big data analytics, container platforms, and Continuous Delivery and Release Automation."},{"id":"Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM","title":"Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM","content":"<p style=\"width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" title=\"Overcoming Privileged Access Control Challenge in Cloud Environments with ARCON | PAM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvWvp40U1vg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nThese emerging technologies have transformed the applications development process. Building applications is now easier, faster and cheaper than before. And the developers can build applications and deploy it on any environment, on-scale.\r\n\r\nHowever, the cloud-first approach will be half-baked if it is devoid of adequate access control mechanisms.\r\n\r\nTake, for example, DevOps engineering. There is a theoretical view that knowledge-sharing, expertise, and exchangeable ideas make DevOps an agile development methodology. Nevertheless, it also means that members of the DevOps team will have a complete control over the tool-chains.\r\n\r\nMoreover, uncontrolled and unmonitored access to DevOps tool-chains is against the principles of role and rule-based access control. What if any team member takes advantage of the non-segregation of duties and misuses the confidential information?\r\n\r\nTherefore, it is always advisable to have a tight access control in any environment. The IT security teams must tread a fine balance between agility, innovation and access to information.\r\n\r\nAnd that\u2019s why<a href=\"https:\/\/arconnet.com\/products\/privileged-access-management\">\u00a0ARCON Privileged Access Management<\/a>\u00a0(PAM) plays an important role in ensuring that your cloud-first strategy is a success.\r\n\r\nThe ARCON | PAM offers all important attributes to enforce segregation of duties including automated management and vaulting of credentials.\r\n\r\nMy Vault, an element of ARCON | PAM and cloud-native application, has all advanced attributes such as on-boarding of user groups, workflow matrix,\u00a0just-in-time access\u00a0to secrets, keys and certificates."},{"id":"The bottom-line","title":"The bottom-line","content":"A gamut of emerging technologies promises agile development methodologies and faster innovation. 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