Account access guides
How teams share accounts, hand work to staff and contractors, and keep track of who signed in, by topic.
Managing shared accounts
Why accounts that several people use don't go away, and how to keep a record of who used them.
25 articles
Managing client accounts at an agency
How to manage clients' social, ad, store and help desk accounts, who gets in, what gets recorded, and what to do when staff change.
24 articles
Letting a vendor use your company's accounts
What US rules require when an outside firm works in your company's systems, how to hand over access, and what to do when the contract ends.
11 articles
Managing privileged accounts
Who should hold admin rights to your cloud and SaaS consoles, how to run the admin logins that stay shared, and how to record who used them.
10 articles
Healthcare account access
How HIPAA's Security Rule applies to the logins in your EHR, practice management system, telehealth platform and payer portals, including logins used by billing companies and other vendors.
18 articles
Managing HR and recruiting accounts
How to let recruiters, seasonal staff and RPO partners use job board and HR system accounts, protect applicant and employee data, and turn access on and off as people join and leave.
8 articles
How companies manage sign-ins to cloud apps
Single sign-on, identity providers, multi-factor authentication, passwordless sign-in and zero trust, and how a company uses them to control who signs in to its cloud apps.
22 articles
Laws, frameworks and account access
The US laws, regulations and frameworks that ask for access controls on accounts, what each one asks, and how to tell which ones apply to your company.
20 articles
Account and password incidents
Cases from US agency and court records, sorted into four types, to help you check how your company handles former staff, vendors, shared passwords and brand social media accounts.
14 articles
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