Know the Owner
Every account, shared mailbox, service identity, administrator role, and recovery method should have documented ownership.
VSS Business Solutions
Email, Identity & Access Protection
Reduce account compromise and unauthorized access through coordinated identity, email, privilege, and remote-access safeguards.
Protect the identities that control the environment
Email and cloud accounts are primary entry points into modern business systems.
Account compromise can expose email, files, contacts, payment requests, cloud applications, and administrative systems. Protection requires more than a spam filter: account ownership, multifactor authentication, privilege, recovery methods, domain configuration, user lifecycle, and remote access must work together.
VSS can implement and manage appropriate controls within the capabilities of the client’s platforms and licenses, document exceptions, and coordinate user communication and recovery procedures.
Protection capabilities
- Multifactor authentication and secure account-recovery methods
- Administrative-role review and least-privilege implementation
- User onboarding, role changes, termination, and access review
- Email filtering, impersonation safeguards, and domain-authentication coordination
- Remote-access, device-access, and supported conditional-access controls
- Compromised-account response, evidence preservation, and vendor escalation
Identity-control priorities
Controls should remain understandable and maintainable after implementation.
Limit the Privilege
Separate routine user activity from administrative access and remove rights that are no longer required.
Prepare the Recovery
Document how compromised or inaccessible accounts will be contained, recovered, verified, and communicated.
Review identity, email, and access controls.
Start with Microsoft 365 or other cloud identities, administrators, remote access, shared accounts, email domains, and account-recovery procedures.