How to govern Cursor
A step-by-step guide to governing Cursor with Rencore: detect with 26 policies, review with 3 reports, and remediate with 5 automations.
Governing Cursor means keeping its access, configuration, and lifecycle under continuous control rather than reacting after something breaks. Rencore governs Cursor with 26 pre-built policies, 3 reports, and 5 automations, so teams can detect risk, review posture, and remediate with an audit trail. The steps below turn that coverage into a repeatable routine.
Steps
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Inventory Cursor
Connect Cursor 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 Cursor 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 Cursor 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.
Recommended Cursor policies
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Cursor catalog on the Cursor connector page.
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Cursor member deactivated in Entra ID
Detects Cursor members who are deactivated in the parent Entra ID.
Severity: Medium -
Cursor external guest member
Detects Cursor members that are external users in Entra ID.
Severity: Medium -
Cursor team has too many admins
Detects Cursor teams with more than 5 admins.
Severity: Medium -
Cursor Privacy Mode is disabled
Detects Cursor teams with Privacy Mode turned off.
Severity: High -
Cursor rogue MCP server
Detects MCP servers whose name does not match the approved allowlist.
Severity: High -
Cursor inactive seat still billed
Detects Cursor members that have been inactive for 30+ days.
Severity: Medium
