Access control updates for sensitive data

Purpose

1.1. Ensure that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive aerial photography data, meet evolving compliance and privacy requirements, reduce data breach risks, enable time-based or project-based permissions, and log all modifications for full traceability and auditability across a range of storage, collaboration, and industry-specific platforms.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New project or client added to the system.
2.2. Staff onboarding, offboarding, or role change.
2.3. Scheduled review intervals or automated security audits.
2.4. Specific files or folders flagged as containing sensitive aerial data.
2.5. External compliance policy updates detected.
2.6. Manual request for access or revocation from admin dashboard.
2.7. Detection of unauthorized access attempts or anomalies.

Platform Variants

3.1. Google Workspace
• Feature: Drive API > Permissions
• Configure: Automate file access grants/removals via Permissions.create, Permissions.delete based on role mapping.
3.2. Microsoft 365/SharePoint
• Feature: Graph API > Permissions endpoint
• Configure: Automate permission updates to folders/files with PATCH /permissions/{id} requests.
3.3. Dropbox Business
• Feature: Sharing Endpoints
• Configure: Automate add/remove shared file access using /sharing/add_file_member and /sharing/remove_file_member.
3.4. Box
• Feature: Collaborations API
• Configure: Automate creation/deletion of collaborations using POST/DELETE /collaborations for specific items.
3.5. AWS S3
• Feature: S3 Bucket Policy API
• Configure: Update bucket policies and object ACLs programmatically using PutBucketPolicy and PutObjectAcl.
3.6. Azure Blob Storage
• Feature: RBAC Role Assignment API
• Configure: Assign roles on container/object level using RoleAssignments - Create or Delete.
3.7. Smartsheet
• Feature: Share Sheet API
• Configure: Automate sharing via POST /sheets/{id}/shares and DELETE for revocation.
3.8. Egnyte
• Feature: Permissions API
• Configure: Programmatically set or revoke folder/file permissions with /permits endpoints.
3.9. Zoho WorkDrive
• Feature: Team Folder API
• Configure: Use POST/DELETE /teamfolders/{id}/users to manage access.
3.10. Citrix ShareFile
• Feature: Folder Access API
• Configure: Automate folder access rights adjustments with POST /folders/{id}/access.
3.11. OneDrive for Business
• Feature: Graph API > Drive Items
• Configure: Automate permission updates via POST/DELETE /permissions on file/folder items.
3.12. Salesforce
• Feature: Files Connect sharing
• Configure: Automate record-level sharing and permission revocation for aerial data assets via REST API.
3.13. M-Files
• Feature: Permissions API
• Configure: Apply role-based access control updates to vault items programmatically.
3.14. Airtable
• Feature: API > Share Table
• Configure: Automate collaborator invites/removal using API PATCH to base collaborators endpoint.
3.15. Trello
• Feature: Board Member Management API
• Configure: Automate adding/removing board members, especially for project boards handling sensitive data.
3.16. Asana
• Feature: Project Membership API
• Configure: Automate adding/removing users via POST/DELETE /project_memberships for aerial projects.
3.17. Wrike
• Feature: Folder/Project Sharing API
• Configure: Automate access controls on folders/projects with PUT /folders/{id}/share.
3.18. Monday.com
• Feature: Board Subscribers API
• Configure: Automate assignment/removal with change_column_value for subscriber columns.
3.19. Google Cloud Storage
• Feature: IAM Policy API
• Configure: Automate roles/bindings for buckets and objects via setIamPolicy method.
3.20. PCloud
• Feature: Folder/Sharing API
• Configure: Automate shared link creation/removal with /sharefolder, /unsharefolder endpoints.
3.21. OpenText Content Suite
• Feature: Permissions API
• Configure: Automate permission changes for content nodes and documents with UpdatePermissions endpoint.
3.22. Oracle Content Management
• Feature: REST API for User Access
• Configure: Automate changes to user access on assets via PATCH /objects/{id}/access.

Benefits

4.1. Reduces manual workload by automating access changes, ensuring continuous compliance and faster response to organizational changes.
4.2. Enhances security by removing obsolete access quickly and minimizing human error.
4.3. Increases transparency with automated, traceable access logs facilitating audits.
4.4. Improves client trust by showing rigorous, systematic controls over sensitive aerial imaging data.
4.5. Keeps pace with shifting privacy standards and internal security policies in a scalable manner.