PS-4 Personnel termination
Requires that on termination of employment system access is disabled within an organization-defined period, authenticators and credentials are revoked, exit interviews cover defined security topics, organizational proper
4
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
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
- Evidence organizational information held by the leaver remains accessible · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Exit interview records covering the defined security topics · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Termination checklist covering access disablement, credential revocation, property return and handover · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Access disablement timestamps measured against the defined period · Document repository
First move
Start with the 1 of 4 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
- Access disabled for core systems while cloud services and remote tools are missed
- Defined disablement period exceeded for involuntary departures where speed matters most
- Data held in personal drives or mailboxes lost when the account is deleted
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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