Episode 19 — Prevent privilege creep with periodic access reviews and automated entitlement cleanup

 This episode explains how privilege creep accumulates in cloud environments and how access reviews and entitlement cleanup reduce long-term risk, a theme that ties governance to measurable control outcomes. You’ll define privilege creep as gradual permission expansion caused by role changes, temporary access, project churn, and inherited group membership that nobody revisits. We’ll cover how periodic reviews work in practice, including selecting review scope, validating business justification, and documenting decisions in a way auditors and incident responders can use. You’ll also explore automation approaches that remove stale access based on signals like inactivity, ended projects, or expired approvals, while minimizing business disruption. The goal is a repeatable process that keeps least privilege true over time instead of being a one-time policy design exercise. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.