How to govern Security in Glean
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in Glean with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in Glean means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Glean with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
Steps
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Inventory Glean
Connect Glean and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Security in Glean to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Glean reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Glean controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Glean catalog on the Glean connector page.
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Glean user has privileged role
Super admin users are high-value targets, raising the likelihood that a compromise has serious impact
Severity: High -
Glean datasource is live and reachable
Enabled datasources expose indexed content through search and AI, raising the likelihood of data exposure
Severity: Medium -
Glean User is deactivated in Entra ID
Detects Glean users who are deactivated in the parent Entra ID
Severity: Medium -
Glean user is external user in Entra ID
Detects Glean users which are guest in the Entra ID directory
Severity: Medium -
Glean policy has violations
Detects Glean governance policies with active violations
Severity: High -
Glean DLP finding is unresolved
Detects unresolved DLP findings in Glean
Severity: High -
Glean instance with too few owners
Detects Glean instances with less than 2 owners
Severity: High -
Glean instance with too many owners
Detects Glean instances with more than 5 owners
Severity: Medium -
Glean user has super admin role
Detects Glean users with the SUPER_ADMIN role
Severity: Medium -
Glean user has excessive agent usage
Detects Glean users with unusually high agent run counts
Severity: Medium -
DLP findings by severity
Shows DLP findings grouped by severity level
