From Siloed Chaos to Unified Access Control: Britive Future-Proofs Cloud Access for Scientific Equipment and Services Leader

• Siloed access processes across multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
• Complex access management and overly-permissive static access resulted from difficulties in managing developer access needs with security requirements.
• Time-consuming process to address static access was difficult to scale and maintain existing cloud access.

The customer primarily utilizes Amazon Web Services along with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform as cloud service providers. As their multi-cloud environment grew, the customer established siloed cloud access processes for each cloud provider.

Not initially realizing the complexity and business strain this approach would create for its cloud and security teams, customer stakeholders were left with the inability to link its developer cloud access needs to the appropriate security requirements, resulting in complexity cascading into administrative roles and access being provisioned in a static and overly-permissive fashion.    

This in turn introduced significant risk to the business and required additional weekly labor to manually clean-up and respond to developer cloud access requests in a bespoke fashion. In a nutshell, this siloed, CSP-specific approach would not scale.   

The team looked to Britive for a unified platform that would automate the frustrating process of granting, configuring, and provisioning multi-cloud roles and permissions at scale, securely.  

Leveraging Britive’s patented Just-In-Time (JIT) multi-cloud access framework, the client deployed Britive to successfully remove siloed cloud access processes, complexity and risk exposure that multi-cloud usage introduces at scale. Moreover, by using Britive, the client eliminated the exposure of standing, high risk entitlements for cloud users and global admin accounts while improving the speed of access to cloud infrastructure for its developers.   

By deploying Britive, the client has both accelerated and future-proofed their cloud adoption—in AWS and other CSPs—with sustainable security guardrails that align to the business needs of both their CTO and CISO organizations.