Policy-driven authorization for public sector and government agencies
Public sector organizations and government agencies must securely manage access to their critical assets and sensitive data. Protect your digital infrastructure and deliver seamless services, strengthen security, ensure compliance, and enhance user experience with Axiomatics’ policy-driven authorization solution.
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Organizations that focus on networks, perimeter security, and firewalls are likely at risk. They may already be exposed to threats from a risk standpoint without realizing it. The idea of a secure network and the speed of information today have surpassed old security methods. This is a dangerous place to be in terms of risk.
Modernization is key to making sure that your organization doesn’t fall under this category. By arming your enterprise with an efficient, scalable, and dynamic authorization approach, you can make sure your data is protected.
According to NIST’s framework, using attribute-based access control (ABAC) specifically can help your organization move in the right direction. You may have seen it be referred to as policy-driven authorization. This approach considers the who, what, where, when, why and how attributes, which are essential to ABAC and Zero Trust.
Policy-driven authorization ensures that only personnel with the appropriate clearance levels can access classified documents based on their attributes. Access to these documents can depend on the user’s location, need-to-know privileges, and approved non-disclosure agreements.
Use Zero Trust to protect services
Implementing Zero Trust involves a multi-layered defense, ensuring only the right individuals access the right resources under the right conditions. For over a decade, leaders have encouraged various federal agencies to use Zero Trust principles in their security. This push led to a White House mandate that all U.S federal agencies must adopt a Zero Trust methodology (Executive Order 14028).
This methodology makes sure the right people can access the right resources at the right time. It requires organizations to segment their networks and set up various policies depending on the accessed data to secure it.
Plus, adopting a token-based architecture to secure applications and APIs is vital. In the end, this makes it harder for unauthorized people to get past the authentication process. It builds trust and protects against misuse, data theft, identity theft, and other security issues.
Optimize your current investments
A lot of risk exists with various government clearances. Role-based access control (RBAC) is a key first step in reaching this goal. Organizations often invest in RBAC through their Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions.
While roles can be a good starting point, however, they do not give a complete view of access and can subject an agency to additional challenges, including role explosion.
Instead, agencies need to consider additional attributes which may include location, security clearance level, and more. This fine-grained approach makes sure the right people get the right information to complete the task at hand and nothing more. This helps mitigate the risk associated with people having more access than they should to complete their job.
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Reduce role explosion
ABAC can limit the need for a high number of roles by using attributes and policies. By adding context, access decisions consider more than just a user’s role.
They also consider who or what that user is related to, what that user needs access to, where that user needs access from, when that user needs access, and how that user is accessing the requested information.
Delegate permissions
ABAC lets you ask clear questions like, “What does employee B truly need access to?” You can then give only those specific permissions.
As a bonus, the ABAC approach checks policies at each access attempt. This helps catch any extra entitlements that employees may have gained over time through entitlement creep.
Improve user experience
Users — whether customers, employees, or partners — can work together while maintaining security and compliance, without unnecessary friction. Policies that go beyond a simple ‘allow or deny’ approach, and include conditions. This ensures that business operations continue smoothly, that sales proceed, and that sensitive information stays safeguarded.
Remove the burden of access policies
By using an external authorization tool policy updates can be integrated into the application without any code changes. This removes the burden on developers, limits testing requirements, and ensures the application remains secure.
Reduce operational costs & development time
By using policy-driven authorization, we can manage and deploy policies from one central place. This removes the need to hard code them into every application. This reduces development time by ~20%, reduces operational costs, and avoids downtime when doing future updates.
Data sharing and regulation compliance
Keeping data together while limiting what users can see is important for following privacy regulations. These rules help protect clients’ privacy and enable sharing information with trusted countries. Authorization allows for the data masking and encryption of this data easily and reliably.
Trusted by organizations across the globe
For nearly 20 years, Axiomatics has provided its award-winning authorization solution to public sector organizations and agencies worldwide. Our solution offers a policy and attribute-based way to control access. It can be used at different levels, including applications, APIs, and microservices.
Discover why some of the world’s largest enterprises and government agencies use Axiomatics to enable digital transformation, share and safeguard sensitive information, meet compliance requirements and minimize data fraud.
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