AC.3 Remove or Disable Accounts When No Longer Required
Remove or disable user accounts when they are no longer required (leaver, role change, extended leave) within a defined timeframe.
3
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
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
- Leaver tickets with disable timestamp · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Monthly orphan account review · Identity provider / directory
- HR-IDP sync evidence · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Start with the 1 of 3 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
- leavers active months later
- no review cadence
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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