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Published inOct 2021
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Jon Lehtinen
Jon Lehtinen
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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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Implementing fine-grained access management for administrators

So far, we only have two levels of access for our administrators inside our AWS accounts once those administrators are placed inside a group that allows them to sign in to AWS SSO: AdministratorAccess and ReadOnly. If we defined group-based access that determines if a user is permitted to even access AWS SSO as coarse-grained access management, then the access granted by these two permission sets represents a very rudimentary example of role-based access control (RBAC). By layering on additional concepts, we can further refine our authorization model into something that is only allowed access to specific resources based upon the assumed role and the user's attributes, to achieve fine-grained access management through attribute-based access control (ABAC).

Permission sets and managed authorization policies

To achieve fine-grained access management through ABAC, we will need to marry an improved set of permission...

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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800562288

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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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