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What is Recertification?

Recertification is the a process of that involves regularly reviewing and verifying user access rights to ensure they align are consistent with the user's role, company policies, and regulationsregulatory requirements. For exampleinstance, In in the context of account validity recertification process, a responsible designated person (such as a manager , supervisor, responsible party, or other designated person) checks the user’s account and decides whether this account should continue to exist. It is an essential component or supervisor checks a user's account to determine whether it should continue to be active. This process is a critical aspect of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs , as it helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, mitigate comply with regulations, reduce security risks, and prevent data breaches. Depending on the industry and applicable regulations that apply to the organization, Recertification recertification may need to be performed regularlyconducted periodically, such as annually or semi-annually. To carry out the recertification effectively, organizations should establish clear guidelines and procedures and ensure that responsible parties are adequately trained.

Recertification is necessary essential to ensure that only authorized personnel has have access to the enterprisean organization's data, minimize the risk for all risky accessesof any risky or unauthorized access, and prevent potential security breaches. Recertification However, recertification is not just about limited to checking and validating unauthorized access. A company would also like to have risk management in place to prevent people from getting toxic combinations of access that could be a risk to the company. For example, a person might get access to create a purchase order and approve the same purchase order. This is a toxic combination of access and potential company risk, which can be mitigated by Recertification. EmpowerID provides a powerful Recertification platform that allows any organization to take a more proactive approach to rectify It is also a critical tool for effective risk management, as it helps prevent individuals from acquiring potentially harmful access combinations that could pose a threat to the organization. For instance, an individual might have the ability to both create and approve a purchase order, which represents a toxic access combination that could be detrimental to the company. By conducting recertification, organizations can identify and eliminate these types of access combinations, thereby mitigating potential risks and enhancing their security posture.

EmpowerID offers a powerful Recertification platform that enables organizations to take a proactive approach to mitigate potential security issues before they occur. With the help of the recertification features provided by EmpowerID, organizations can automate Through its recertification capabilities, EmpowerID automates the process of collecting data, presenting data it to auditors, reviewing and verifying user access rights, and removing user access rights.

Recertification Policy & Recertification Audit

A Recertification Policy is a set inappropriate access. This helps organizations streamline their recertification process, minimize the risk of unauthorized access, and stay compliant with regulatory requirements. Additionally, EmpowerID's platform provides advanced reporting and analytics features that provide organizations with insights into their access management practices and enable data-driven decision-making. With EmpowerID's Recertification platform, organizations can enhance their security posture, safeguard their sensitive data from security breaches, and operate with confidence.

Recertification Policies and Access Recertification Audits

What are Recertification policies?

Recertification Policies are a collection of guidelines and procedures that an organization establishes to ensure that access rights are regularly reviewed and verified to align with the user 's roleroles, company policies, and regulationsregulatory requirements. The policies Policies outline which users and what access rights will be reviewed. With a Recertification Policy , and in EmpowerID's Recertification platform, you can define

various aspects of the policy, such as:

• The type of access that needs to recertifybe recertified.

• Default decisions for unattended recertification requests.

• Who /What to recertifyor what needs to be recertified?

• Which data /or access needs to recertifybe recertified?

We In EmpowerID, you can create different types of recertification policies of different types in the EmpowerID system, which that are reusable. For example, we should certify , such as certifying the identity of an external partner identity and a member or reviewing the access of certain high-risk management roles in during an audit. These items policies can be specified in one or more recertification policies . Later these policies can be and later attached to an Audit. The review of audit for implementation.

What are Access Recertification Audits?

An Access Recertification Audit is a process of reviewing user access rights to see if ensure that they are proper and correspond to the appropriate and comply with an organization's internal rules policies and compliance standards is known as an Access Recertification Audit. The Recertification is often implemented as an Audit that collects regulatory standards. Typically, the recertification process involves conducting audits that collect data based on the configurations in configuration of associated recertification policies. EmpowerID collects data about user access rights, including permissions to access sensitive data or systems, and routes the information for review to authorized Auditors This data is then forwarded to authorized auditors, such as managers, role owners, or data owners, for review and validation.

The During the Access Recertification Audit, auditors can identify and address any discrepancies or issues with user access rights and ensure that access rights comply to ensure compliance with company policies, regulations, and industry standards. Each access EmpowerID generates a business request item for each access, which is presented as a task to auditors to help recertify discrepancies and provide access revocation. The data generated in an audit about access are snapshots, meaning the data represents is a snapshot, representing the state it was captured, which will not change. EmpowerID maintains an audit trail of these access snapshots and the decisions made concerning the access.

The recertification policy defines outlines the rules and procedures for reviewing access rights. In contrast, while the recertification audit is the actual review of access rights against the company policies and regulations. Since the Recertification of the access recertification is a continuous process, EmpowerID allows organizations to schedule recertification audits can be scheduled to run periodically, such as on a quarterly or monthly basis, weekly, daily, or at willon demand. By using EmpowerID's Access Recertification Audit, organizations can automate and streamline their access review process, ensuring that access rights are regularly reviewed and validated and comply with regulatory requirements.

Recertification Architecture and Process Flow

This diagram describes the Recertification Architecture of EmpowerID. Detailed information about each process is described below the diagram.

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1. The first step in Recertification in EmpowerID is to create recertification policies, which are reusable definitions or rules that allow you to configure who and what types of access should be audited. These policies can be configured based on organizational rules, including the type, scope, and people. They can be used in multiple audits, saving time and effort compared to defining them each time.

   1. Create a Recertification Policy: Create a recertification policy that defines the type of policy and enables it for audit. You can also configure what should be done if any access recertification is unattended by the auditors.

   2. Add Target to Recertification Policy: Adding a target to a recertification policy configures who or what will be recertified. Recertification policies can target multiple resources and objects, such as a specific location, group, or resource type.

   3. Add Item Type Scope (Data) to Recertification Policy: The Item Type Scope in a Recertification Policy allows users to configure what data will be collected for Recertification. The item scope enables users to tailor the recertification process to meet their specific needs, such as specifying the collection of data only for a person's access to a group as a member.

2. Once the policy is defined, Audits will be created by the user. An audit is an end-to-end recertification implementation, meaning the data is collected and certified during an audit.

   1. Create Recertification Audit: In EmpowerID, an audit is a logically named user-defined object for identifying or grouping business requests and running the Recertification policies that generate them. EmpowerID recertification audits can be scheduled to run periodically, such as on a quarterly or monthly basis, weekly, daily, or at will.

   2. Add Recertification Policy to Recertification Audit: An audit can have multiple recertification policies enabling you to granularly configure to collect different types of access data in a single audit. 

3. The EmpowerID recertification engine runs the audit on provided schedule, which automatically collecting collects access data and saving saves it as snapshots, meaning the data represents the state it was captured, which will not change.

   1. The collected data is used to create Business Requests and Their items. In EmpowerID, each access recertification is a Business Request Item or an automatically generated task request which is presented to auditors as a Business request. The background job Attestion Policy Compiler does the collection of data and generation of business requests. You can follow the instructions in Verify Business Requests are Generated to see if the audit generates the requests.

   2. Auditors and responsible managers provide decisions to Certify, Revoke, and other actions in the business requests. Instruction to Provide Business Requests Decisions These business requests contains details about the access for the person that needs to be certified.

   3. Once the auditors provide the decisions on the business request, the fulfillment workflow picks the decision and fulfills it. The background job Business Request Fulfillment does the fulfillment task based on business decisions.