{"slug":"access-and-identity","title":"access-and-identity","summary":"Designs and audits who can reach what — authentication, authorization models, privileged access, service credentials, and joiner-mover-leaver process. Use this to design a permissions model, run an access review, reduce standing privilege, handle offboarding, set up SSO or MFA, m","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-30T09:48:20.690963Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount","stars":1697,"forks":256,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T19:13:19Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: access-and-identity\ndescription: Designs and audits who can reach what — authentication, authorization models, privileged access, service credentials, and joiner-mover-leaver process. Use this to design a permissions model, run an access review, reduce standing privilege, handle offboarding, set up SSO or MFA, manage service and machine credentials, or diagnose why permissions have sprawled.</h2>\n<h1>Access and identity</h1>\n<p>Access accumulates. People change roles and keep the old permissions, services get broad credentials\nbecause narrow ones were inconvenient, and contractors' accounts outlive their contracts. Left alone,\nentitlement always grows and never shrinks.</p>\n<h2>Principles that actually hold</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Least privilege, and it must be practical.</strong> A model so restrictive that people share accounts\nto get work done is worse than a looser one they follow.</li>\n<li><strong>Role-based, not person-based.</strong> Grants attached to individuals are ungovernable at any scale.</li>\n<li><strong>Time-bound elevation over standing privilege.</strong> Nobody should hold administrative access\ncontinuously because they occasionally need it. Elevation on request, with a reason, expiring\nautomatically.</li>\n<li><strong>Separate duties where the consequence is severe.</strong> The person who requests a payment does not\napprove it; the person who writes the deploy does not solely authorize the production change.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Authentication</h2>\n<p>Single sign-on wherever possible — the value is not convenience, it is that offboarding becomes one\naction rather than forty. Every system outside SSO is a system someone will still have access to\nafter they leave.</p>\n<p>Multi-factor everywhere it is available, and phishing-resistant factors for administrative access.\nSMS is better than nothing and is the weakest option worth deploying.</p>\n<h2>Joiner, mover, leaver</h2>\n<p><strong>Mover is the one everyone gets wrong.</strong> Joining and leaving are events with a process; changing\nrole usually adds permissions and removes none, which is how a long-tenured employee ends up with\naccess to everything.</p>\n<p>Make role change a revoke-and-regrant rather than an addition. It is the single highest-value change\nmost organizations can make to their access posture.</p>\n<p>Offboarding needs to be same-day, cover everything including systems outside SSO, and be verified\nrather than assumed. Keep a list of what exists to be revoked — the fastest way to find the shadow\nsystems is to try to offboard someone thoroughly.</p>\n<h2>Service and machine credentials</h2>\n<p>Usually more numerous and less governed than human ones. Each needs a named human owner, a scope\nlimited to its actual use, a rotation path, and an expiry.</p>\n<p>Prefer short-lived, automatically issued credentials over long-lived keys. A key that never expires\nwill eventually appear in a repository, a log, or a support ticket.</p>\n<h2>Access reviews</h2>\n<p>Periodic, by system, with the reviewer being the person accountable for the data rather than IT.\nReviewers who cannot say why someone needs access should remove it — the burden belongs on\nretention, not removal.</p>\n<p>Review dormant accounts as a separate pass. An account nobody has used in six months is either\nunnecessary or belongs to someone who left.</p>\n<h2>Diagnosing sprawl</h2>\n<p>Look for: permissions granted to individuals rather than roles, roles nobody can define, standing\nadministrative access, accounts whose owner has left, service credentials with no owner, and systems\noutside SSO. Each is a specific fix, and the list is nearly always the same list.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"references/sources.md","sizeBytes":1323,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4581,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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