WC-B-09Level 1 · Signal
Reviews and revokes own app grants
- Behavior
- Vigilant
- Level 1 · Signal
A vigilant Behavior signal from identity governance (IGA, consent review): this person opened their list of connected apps and removed grants they no longer use.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- GV.SC-07
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1528
The definition, in detail
Definition
The vendor's standing access ended by the person's own action.
Example
A sales operations analyst removes six unused app connections from her account during the quarterly access review and keeps the two the team still uses.
How it is measured
- Source
- IGA, PAM & entitlements
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Consent review
- Risk domain
- Web, cloud and SaaS
- Provenance
- Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Reviews and revokes own app grants" per person from IGA, PAM & entitlements and read it beside the other Web, cloud and SaaS signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 1 breach scenario.
A "reviews and revokes own app grants" event is evidence of a protective behavior; a vigilant behavior at any step breaks a sequence. It is one event, and it does not cancel the risky signals the same person carries.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Library indicators
The detailed observations in the indicator library with the same risk domain, dimension and polarity as this signal.
- I.0129Accesses SaaS apps only from managed devices
- I.0131Stores sensitive documents only in approved cloud platforms
- I.0133Uses browser extensions only from approved list
- I.0135Logs out of sensitive applications after use
- I.0137Avoids repeated access attempts to restricted cloud content
- I.0174Uses only approved SaaS platforms
- I.0175Reports suspicious browser activity
- I.0176Reports unauthorized or unknown SaaS applications
- I.0178Submits help desk tickets for blocked or restricted services
- I.0181Browses websites in approved safe categories
- I.0182Uses cloud collaboration tools only during business hours
- I.0408Maintains third-party RBAC controls
- I.0409Conducts regular and timely audits
- I.0410Requires use of organization-managed devices
- I.0411Meets contractual compliance obligations
Continue exploring
"Reviews and revokes own app grants" (WC-B-09), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/wc-b-09-reviews-and-revokes-own-app-grants
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
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