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Governance, Ownership & Risk

How should security teams govern access when automation handles most requests?

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By NHI Mgmt Group Editorial Team Updated June 7, 2026 Domain: Governance, Ownership & Risk

Security teams should treat automation as the default execution path and build policy around exception handling, risk thresholds, and enforcement hooks. Human review should focus on sensitive access, ambiguous cases, and control failures that policy cannot resolve. The key is to design governance for decision volume, not reviewer availability.

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Reviewed and updated by the NHIMG editorial team on June 7, 2026.
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