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How to Clean Up the Mess in Your Permissions Structure

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Over time, the permissions structure in any IT environment can grow quite complicated — which makes it extremely hard to ensure that only the right people can read or modify sensitive data. Here are several common issues in complex permission structures:

Open (“Everyone”) access to sensitive data

Elevated privileges granted to users who don’t require them

Multiple levels of permissions, such as both “Full control” and “Read,” being granted

Poor naming conventions that make it difficult to know what level of access each group provides

How can you clean up your permissions structure to minimize your attack surface and strengthen the security of your environment?

Netwrix Enterprise Auditor can help you analyze the current state of permissions and suggest a better way of assigning them.

Simply open the Enterprise Auditor Published Reports web client ⇒ Go to the FileSystem tile from Solutions set ⇒

Open the Change Modeling report.

The report provides a graphical summary of proposed access changes along with the following details:

Proposed Access Changes by Share — A breakdown of the suggested access changes for each file share
Access Modification Details — The suggested changes to specific accounts and group names

See how you can automate permissions changes and keep track of all the modifications to your file share permissions using Enterprise Auditor’s action module

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Phone: 1-949-407-5125 | Toll-free: 888-638-9749