Case Study: Top 5 Global Pharma improves cloud least privilege and reduces high-risk permissions with CloudKnox Security

Top 5 Global Pharma selects CloudKnox to help them mitigate the new #1 risk to cloud infrastructure – accidental misuse and malicious exploitation of high-risk permissions

Top 5 Global Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical company pursuing a cloud-first strategy, needed to accelerate more than 50% of its workloads into the cloud while reducing the risk from over-provisioned human and machine identities. The company turned to CloudKnox Security Inc and its Cloud Permissions Management Platform to gain visibility into who had access to critical resources and how those permissions were being used.

CloudKnox Security Inc deployed its platform in hours and, within 24 hours, uncovered major exposure: up to 50% of human identities were assigning high-risk permissions, 74% were using less than 5% of granted permissions, and more than 90% of service accounts had high-risk access. Using CloudKnox’s activity-based authorization, JEP Controller, and anomaly detection, the company right-sized permissions, enforced least privilege, improved compliance, and detected suspicious behavior, all with non-disruptive deployment and measurable time-to-value within days.