ISO 27001 vs SOC 2 usually gets answered as “it depends on your customers” — SOC 2 for the US, ISO 27001 for everyone else — and that’s true as far as it goes. But the question engineering leaders actually need answered is narrower: which specific access controls will an auditor test, and can one control […]
A failed SOC 2 audit rarely shows up as a single bad number on an invoice. It shows up as a re-audit fee, a remediation sprint that pulls three engineers off the roadmap for a quarter, and a stalled enterprise deal where the buyer’s security team just went quiet. Technically, SOC 2 examinations don’t issue a pass/fail […]
Segregation of duties — often shortened to SoD, and sometimes searched as “segregation of duties IT” when the conflict lives in a system rather than a paper approval — is the control principle that no single person should be able to initiate, approve, execute, and record the same transaction end to end. It sounds like an […]
Every CTO reaches the same fork eventually: the quarterly access review has stopped being a formality and started eating a full week of someone’s time, and the question is no longer “should we automate this” but “how.” That’s the real decision behind access review automation — not whether to keep using a spreadsheet forever, but whether to […]
Every enterprise running Microsoft 365 eventually asks the same question: do we keep certifying access with spreadsheets and email chains, or do we finally turn on Entra ID governance access reviews? The honest answer is more specific than “automate everything.” Most organizations are already paying for a meaningful chunk of Entra ID Governance inside licenses they […]
Most breaches don’t start with a zero-day. They start with an account that had more access than it needed — a contractor’s laptop with admin rights to production, a CI runner that reaches every environment, a former employee’s SSO login nobody revoked. A least privilege access model — where every user, service account, and application gets only […]
