Use case 2
As a part of the yearly security audit, Big Corp., which has 500 servers, is required to show these details to the auditor:
Which servers does user manoj have access to? Provide a screenshot evidence.
Possible solutions: The 1st approach is to write some script that checks if user manoj is present and provides the result in a text file. One challenge is that the script needs to be run on all 500 servers, which might take some time.
The 2nd approach is that if IPA is used, you can see the required details very easily.
Solution: If you have a centralized dashboard that contains all the information about users and associated permissions, then it becomes very simple to audit and also show it to external auditors.
This is illustrated ...
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