While access governance is the big picture, policy-building part of Critical Access Management, access control is the double-locks and extra protections that help keep an organization’s most valuable assets safe. The types of access control that reduce risk, increase visibility, and increase friction when it comes to granting access rights and privileges, or the allowing the use of such access rights and privileges, are an extra safeguard—like having both a deadbolt and a second key lock on a door—that can be personalized to fit an organization’s access management needs. 

Think of access control like gaining entry to a safety deposit box in a bank. It’s the doors you’re given permission to access, the pin code needed to get through that door, the person who walks you there and verifies your ID, and even the kind of key you’re given to access that box. 

There are multiple types of access control that can be employed, and each one has a specific purpose within critical access management.

Read more at Four Different Types of Access Control