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Safeguard articles tagged "access-management" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

6 articles

Compliance

An Engineer's First Week Sets Their Access for Three Years

Whatever they are granted on day two, they keep, because nothing removes it and asking for less is not a thing people do. The decisions get made by whoever is unblocking them at the time.

Sep 18, 20265 min read
Compliance

Nobody Decided That Everyone Should Have Production Access

It was obviously right at eight people and nothing has forced a decision since. At some point the number who can read every customer's data stops being one you would say out loud, and nothing breaks to tell you.

Sep 18, 20265 min read
Compliance

The Contractor Offboarding Nobody Ever Did

Every offboarding process is triggered by a termination event in a directory. A contractor's engagement ending produces an invoice, not a directory change, so nothing downstream fires and the account stays live.

Sep 18, 20266 min read
Compliance

Disabling the SSO Account Did Not Remove Their Access

SSO centralises authentication. It does not end existing sessions, revoke tokens issued through other paths, or touch the tools that were never federated. Deprovisioning is a credential problem, and credentials outlive identities by design.

Sep 17, 20266 min read
Security

Checkmarx Login: SSO, SAML, and Secure Access Explained

How the Checkmarx login works across the web console and IDE plugins, why SAML single sign-on is the right default, and how to keep access secure.

Apr 9, 20266 min read
Identity Security

How to rotate SSH keys safely

A step-by-step guide to rotating SSH keys without downtime: inventory existing keys, generate new pairs, cut over safely, revoke old keys, and verify nothing was missed.

Feb 18, 20268 min read

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