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.
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
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
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- reviews completed by bulk approval with no scrutiny
- reviews cover directory roles but not resource-level assignments
- findings recorded but removals never executed
Do this for your whole sheet
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.
Build my evidence sheetPA-3 Manage lifecycle of identities and entitlements · PA-5 Set up emergency access