Best practice 4.4 – Establish an emergency access process to ensure that admin access is managed and used when required

Emergency access allows expedited access to your workload in the unlikely event of an automated process or pipeline issue. This will help you rely on least privilege access, but still provide users the right level of access when they require it.

Suggestion 4.4.1 – Ensure that risk analysis is performed on your analytics workload by identifying emergency situations and a procedure to allow emergency access

Identify the potential events that can happen from source systems, analytics workload, and downstream systems. Quantify the risk of each event such as likelihood (low, medium, or high) and the size of the business impact (small, medium, or large).

For example, after you identified priority risks, discuss with the source and downstream system owners on how to allow analytics workload access to the source and downstream systems to continue the data processing business.