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Identity, access & admin controls

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At a few seats, identity is a login. At a few thousand seats, identity is a lifecycle and the lifecycle is what a security reviewer audits.

Your job as SA is to wire Cursor into the identity machinery the customer already runs, so that provisioning and offboarding happen without a human touching a console. Three primitives carry the weight.

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The Enterprise Control Surface

THE ENTERPRISE CONTROL SURFACE

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: stack

Identity decides who's in; policy decides what they can do; audit proves the controls operate.

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“An offboarded engineer keeping access for three weeks is a directory problem, and SCIMSystem for Cross-domain Identity Management. A standard for automatically creating and removing user accounts when people join or leave. Press Enter for the full definition. is how we close it. Deprovisioning is event-driven off your IdP: disable the account in the directory and Cursor access is revoked with it. There is no manual step left to forget, which is why this one control closes a recurring audit finding.”

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Optional practice

Practice: Identity, access & admin controls

QA security team's top concern is orphaned access: people who left the company still showing as active. Which control do you lead with and why?