A.5.16 Identity management
Manage the full life cycle of identities.
20
artefacts
6
held by a system
4
at each review
moderate
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
- Automated provisioning script · Identity provider / directory
- Directory service export · Source control / CI pipeline
- Account disablement log · Identity provider / directory
- Access removal ticket · SIEM / log platform
- Deprovisioning audit trail · Identity provider / directory
- Privileged account password vault logs · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Identity lifecycle audit report · Source control / CI pipeline
- Quarterly privileged access review minutes · Identity provider / directory
- Approval records for privileged access · Identity provider / directory
- Periodic role review report · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- New user request form · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Approval email chain · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Onboarding checklist · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- User account inventory spreadsheet · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Metadata schema definition · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Termination notice · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Privileged account inventory · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Role definition document · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Role to permission mapping table · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Role change request form · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Start with the 6 of 20 artefacts that already live in a system (Identity provider / directory); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- relying on manual spreadsheets for provisioning
- infrequent review of privileged accounts
- missing documentation of deprovisioning steps
- inconsistent role definitions across systems
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.
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