EvidenceSheet
Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) · Privileged Access

PA-4 Review and reconcile user access regularly

Review privileged account entitlements on a regular cycle and confirm the access granted remains valid for control plane, management plane and workload administration.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), PA-4. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) in the compliance library.

4
artefacts
0
held by a system
3
at each review
hard
to go live
Identity provider / directory
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Access review schedule and completed review records · Identity provider / directory
  • Reviewer attestations per privileged role · Identity provider / directory
  • Removal records for access not recertified · Identity provider / directory

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Exception handling for accounts retained · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

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Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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PA-3 Manage lifecycle of identities and entitlements · PA-5 Set up emergency access