In today's episode, "Don't Give Special Access," we tackle a crucial question: how can we grant developers and operations engineers the necessary access to our applications without compromising customer data or violating business processes?

The Importance of Limiting Access: "Security best practices specify that engineers, both developers and IT operations, personnel, should have as little access as possible to the production application and its infrastructure."

Permission Escalation: "Permission escalation is a process of giving an on call engineer temporary increased system access during an emergency. This increased access typically comes with increased scrutiny."

Preventing Malicious Activities: "All of this ensures that a rogue engineer can't perform malicious activities on the site, including access customer private data inappropriately and cause damage to the system or the business."

"Balancing Security and Access: Giving engineers unrestricted access to everything... is just not safe and is just not good business practice."

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• Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly Media

Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, public speaker, and recognized thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His most recent book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage...