5 – Control the access to workload infrastructure

How do you protect the infrastructure of the analytics workload? Analytics environments change based on the evolving requirements of data processing and data distribution. Ensuring the environment is accessible with the least permissions necessary is essential in delivering a secure platform. Automate the auditing of environment changes and generate alerts in case of abnormal environment access.

ID	Priority	Best practice
☐ BP 5.1	Required	Prevent unintended access to the infrastructure.
☐ BP 5.2	Required	Implement least privilege policies for source and downstream systems.
☐ BP 5.3	Required	Monitor the infrastructure changes and the user activities against the infrastructure.
☐ BP 5.4	Required	Secure the audit logs that record every data or resource access in analytics infrastructure.