RE: Permissions and rights for security professionals inside organizations

sharon_joyner_at_timeinc.com
Date: 05/27/04

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    In an ideal world, where the ideal separation of duties is possible,
    security professionals who only do security administration should not
    have full access to business data and should only be able to modify
    permissions. Of course, this means that they could grant permission to
    themselves for sensitive data, but administrative tasks should be
    audited to mitigate the risk.

    Unfortunately, most systems are Microsoft or Unix and this separation of
    duties is usually impractical. Auditing administrative tasks is
    therefore mandatory to mitigate the risk of admins doing bad things.

    Sharon Joyner, CISSP
    IS Security Administrator
    Warner Publisher Services
    9210 King Palm Drive
    Tampa, FL 33619
    Tel: 813-664-8147 Fax: 813-664-8195
     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: acrypto [mailto:acrypto@comcast.net]
    Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:50 AM
    To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
    Subject: Permissions and rights for security professionals inside
    organizations

    A policy and or procedure question:
    I am curious to know what levels of access security professionals are
    granted inside organizations. Should the security team maintain
    administrative and root type access for all systems? Should there be a
    process by which they can obtain this level of access at any time if
    they don't maintain it constantly? Should security professionals be
    limited to only read access but to all data? Or, should security
    professionals only have access upon request for any system, data, or
    resource? Are there any policies or best practices that address this
    issue?

    Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide,

    acrypto

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