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5 Signs Your Access Program Is a Risk Liability

You’ve invested in firewalls, endpoint protection, identity management, and compliance audits. But what if the weakest link in your security posture is your physical access program? 

For many enterprises, that’s exactly the case. 

5 Warning Signs of Physical Access Risk

Here are five signs your current access model is a risk liability—and what to do about it:

  1. Access is provisioned manually. Site admins grant or revoke access by email or spreadsheet. This leads to errors, delays, and inconsistent access policies across locations.
  2. There’s no integration with HR or IT systems. Badge systems operate in a silo. When someone’s role changes—or they leave the company—there’s no automated update to physical access rights.
  3. Contractors and vendors fall outside your policies. Third parties often receive long-term access with little oversight. They’re rarely held to the same governance standards as employees.
  4. Physical access data isn’t used for risk detection. You can’t correlate who entered a space with who logged into a system. This blinds your security team to converged threats and insider risks.
  5. Audit prep is a scramble. You don’t have a unified view of who has access to what, when, and why—making compliance reporting stressful and incomplete.

Sound familiar?

From Liability to Visibility

RightCrowd SmartAccess helps enterprises eliminate these risks by automating physical access based on identity, aligning it with IT governance, and making access transparent and auditable. 

Because if you can’t confidently say who has access to what—physically and digitally—you’re not secure. 

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