Approve Vendor VPN Through Risk, Not Favors
Apply RMF steps to assess, approve, and monitor a third-party network access path.
Vendor access Operations needs vendor diagnostics before tomorrow's production batch. A fast network exception can become a long-lived third-party bridge if risk ownership is not explicit. RMF lens Prepare, categorize, select, authorize, monitor RMF turns urgent access from a favor into a documented risk decision. open VPN now Fast, but vague and hard to defend later. Access is scoped, accepted, and reviewable. A risk decision names the path, owner, controls, residual risk, and review trigger. 01 Scope 02 Authorize 03 Monitor Categorize The vendor says they need access to 'the production network' but cannot name the server yet.
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