How to govern Security in Cursor
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in Cursor with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in Cursor means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Cursor 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 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 Security in 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.
Cursor controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Cursor catalog on the Cursor connector page.
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Cursor member is active
Members active in the last 30 days are live accounts, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited.
Severity: Medium -
Cursor member has admin role
Members with an admin role are privileged identities with a wider blast radius, raising likelihood.
Severity: High -
Cursor team has active seats
Teams with recently active seats are live workspaces, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited.
Severity: Medium -
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 admin API key older than 90 days
Detects admin API keys where the last rotation event is more than 90 days old.
Severity: Medium -
Cursor user API key proliferation
Detects frequent user API key creation events.
Severity: Medium -
Cursor non-SSO login detected
Detects login events without an SSO marker in their parameters.
Severity: High -
Remove Cursor Member
Automatically removes a member from the Cursor team after approval
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Add Cursor Repo Blocklist Entry
Add a repository to the Cursor repo blocklist.
