Organizations with Too Many Owners

Overview

The Organizations with Too Many Owners widget identifies organizations that have an excessive number of users with owner-level privileges (more than 5 owners). This insight is crucial for managing security risks associated with privilege sprawl and maintaining proper access control. By highlighting these organizations, Security Operations (Sec Ops) and IT Operations (IT Ops) engineers can implement better access governance and reduce potential security vulnerabilities.

Value for IT and Security Engineers

Security Perspective

• Privilege Sprawl Detection: Helps Sec Ops engineers identify organizations with excessive administrative access rights.

• Attack Surface Reduction: Enables teams to minimize the attack surface by identifying and reducing unnecessary privileged access.

• Access Governance: Supports implementation of least-privilege principles in organization management.

Operational Perspective

• Access Management: Simplifies identification of organizations requiring access right optimization.

• Risk Mitigation: Helps prevent unauthorized changes and accidental disruptions from too many privileged users.

• Compliance Adherence: Assists in maintaining compliance with security standards requiring controlled privileged access.

How to Use

1. Monitor the widget for organizations with more than 5 owners.

2. Review each flagged organization's owner list and assess the necessity of owner-level access.

3. Implement remediation steps:

   • Downgrade unnecessary owner accounts to appropriate lower-privilege roles

   • Create custom organization roles with specific permissions

   • Document and enforce owner limitation policies

4. Conduct regular access reviews to maintain proper privilege levels.

Best Practices

• Maintain 3-5 owners per organization as a general guideline

• Document justification for each owner-level access grant

• Regularly audit owner permissions and remove unnecessary access

• Use custom roles instead of owner access when possible

• Implement automated alerts for new owner additions