Assessing change management and configuration policies 3 – Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

Policy Sentry Another tool that an IT auditor can use to monitor changes in Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an open source solution named Policy Sentry. Policy Sentry is a great tool to manage IAM entities. Policy Sentry also has functionality as an audit and analysis database. It compiles database tables based on AWS […]

Assessing change management and configuration policies – Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

Assessing change management and configuration policies As we covered in Chapter 5, Financial Resource and Change Management Controls, in the cloud, automation is embedded into change management processes. Leveraging automation reduces the opportunity for manual IT control failures. Organizations need to ensure that there are safeguards within the automated process that enforce separation of duties, […]

Assessing change management and configuration policies 2 – Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

Azure Automation Another tool that organizations use for change and configuration management is Azure Automation. Azure Automation allows an organization to automate changes in the Azure environment and across external systems. You first need to create an Automation account before using Azure Automation. To launch Azure Automation, use the following steps: A useful feature for […]