Who oversees the whole picture at your organisation?
Your IT environment consists of an ever-growing number of systems, suppliers, connections and responsibilities. Every party knows its own part well. But who assesses what a change means for the rest of your environment?
Malenco takes the lead from your perspective. We safeguard the coherence between management, security, access, suppliers and continuity.
No single supplier causes the risk.
The interplay between them does.
An organisation uses Microsoft 365, a business application, machines, cameras, access control, cloud solutions and perhaps several external administrators. Each part can function perfectly well on its own. The risk arises when nobody structurally assesses how these parts influence each other.
A new supplier is granted access
Who decides how, to which systems and for how long?
A new application is introduced
Who assesses the consequences for accounts, data, back-up and security?
A machine is connected to the network
Who looks beyond the question of whether the connection simply works?
An employee or supplier leaves
Who makes sure access is actually revoked?
Every supplier knows their own solution inside out.
But that doesn't automatically mean anyone safeguards your overall interest.
Your software supplier knows everything about their application. The machine builder knows their machine. Microsoft manages its cloud platform. And a telecom provider takes care of the connection.
But decisions within one part can have consequences for access, security, recoverability or other systems.
Governance means that someone does safeguard those connections.
We safeguard your overall interest.
Good IT management starts before new IT is connected.
Much IT management only starts after something has been purchased, installed or connected. We prefer to be involved earlier.
When a new supplier, application, machine, cloud solution or location is added, we look in advance at what this means for the existing environment.
- 01
Understand
What is being added or changed, and why?
- 02
Assess
Which systems, data, users and dependencies are affected?
- 03
Define conditions
What requirements apply to access, security, segmentation, logging and recovery?
- 04
Guide
We coordinate with internal and external parties and safeguard the agreed principles.
- 05
Keep managing
After going live, the solution remains part of the overall management and security environment.
Your organisation at the centre,
everything around it in coherence.
Your organisation
Suppliers & external access
Who may connect to what, with which rights and under which conditions?
Identity & authorisations
Accounts, MFA, roles, least privilege and revoking access.
Network & segmentation
Not every system or supplier needs to be able to reach everything.
Changes
New employees, applications, machines, locations and cloud solutions.
Continuity & recovery
What do dependencies mean for back-up, recovery and operations?
Monitoring & accountability
Which access and changes are visible, recorded and verifiable?
Your organisation is central, and the six topics are overseen in coherence.
Suppliers & external access
Who may connect to what, with which rights and under which conditions?
Identity & authorisations
Accounts, MFA, roles, least privilege and revoking access.
Network & segmentation
Not every system or supplier needs to be able to reach everything.
Changes
New employees, applications, machines, locations and cloud solutions.
Continuity & recovery
What do dependencies mean for back-up, recovery and operations?
Monitoring & accountability
Which access and changes are visible, recorded and verifiable?
A supplier wants remote access to their system.
What happens then?
Without central governance
- The supplier proposes their own remote solution.
- A connection is set up.
- The supplier receives permanent access.
- Nobody assesses which other systems become reachable.
- Logging and later revoking access are not clearly assigned to anyone.
With Malenco governance
- First we determine what the supplier actually needs.
- Then we choose a suitable access method.
- We limit reach and rights.
- MFA, segmentation and logging are included.
- Temporary access is used where it fits.
- We record who is responsible for changing or revoking it.
Governance doesn't mean Malenco has to do everything itself.
Your organisation may need specialist suppliers. That's not a problem. Governance doesn't mean Malenco has to deliver all the technology itself.
Our role is to make sure choices fit within your overall IT environment and that responsibilities, access, security and continuity don't fall between suppliers.
That's why we work together with your existing suppliers — but from your perspective.
Your IT never stands still.
In a healthy organisation, something is constantly changing
People
A new employee, a different role, departure, working from home or mobile working.
Applications
New software, a different cloud solution, changed integrations or new permissions.
Equipment
Workstations, smartphones, tablets, machines, IoT or building systems.
Suppliers
A new service provider, different remote access or changed responsibilities.
Organisation
A new location, acquisition, expansion or change in business processes.
Governance ensures that every change is looked at again from the perspective of the whole.
Related topics
Supplier access
How do you organise external access without giving suppliers unnecessary freedom?
Read the article
Business continuity
Which dependencies determine whether your organisation can keep working and recover?
Read the article
VPN & external access
From permanent connections to controlled, fit-for-purpose access.
Read the article
Change & IT risk
Why a new application, machine or supplier must be assessed before going live.
Read the articleWho oversees what happens between suppliers, systems and responsibilities at your organisation?
IT management isn't only about what works today. It's also about making sure changes happen responsibly and that someone keeps safeguarding the overall interest.
Discuss your current management and responsibilitiesTogether we look at where responsibilities lie, which parties are involved and where governance is missing or could be stronger.