IDM-01 Policy for user accounts and access rights
Document, communicate and make available a role and rights concept plus an access management policy covering unique usernames, least privilege, segregation of duties, approval steps, periodic entitlement reviews, inactiv
4
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
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
- Approved role and rights concept with version history and management sign-off · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Distribution and acknowledgement records showing the access policy reached internal and external staff · HR system / LMS
- Matrix identifying incompatible duties that must not be held by one person · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Register of individuals or systems entitled to approve entitlement changes · 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
- Role and rights concept never reissued after a reorganisation changed the underlying job families
- Policy silent on service and machine accounts used in automated authorisation
- Split between approving and assigning entitlements described in prose but not fixed to named roles
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 sheetHR-06 Confidentiality agreements · IDM-02 Granting and change of user accounts and access rights