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What is Recertification?

Recertification is a process that involves regularly reviewing and verifying routinely assesses and confirms user access rights to ensure they are consistent with the user's role, company align with their roles, corporate policies, and regulatory requirementsstandards. For instance, in the context of account validity, a designated person authority such as a manager or supervisor checks evaluates a user's account to determine whether it should continue to be active. This process is a critical aspect validity to ascertain its ongoing activation status. This crucial component of governance, risk, and compliance programs as it helps organizations comply with regulations, reduce security risks, and prevent data breaches. Depending on the industry and applicable regulations, recertification may need to be conducted periodically, such as aids organizations in meeting regulatory requirements, diminishing security threats, and averting data breaches. Recertification frequency varies based on industry and relevant regulations, often occurring annually or semi-annually. To carry out the effectively execute recertification effectively, organizations should establish clear must develop well-defined guidelines and procedures and ensure that responsible parties are adequately trainedprocesses and guarantee proper training for responsible individuals.

Recertification is essential to ensure that only authorized personnel have not only essential for maintaining authorized access to an organization's data , minimize the risk of any but also for minimizing the likelihood of risky or unauthorized access , and prevent averting potential security breaches. However, recertification is not limited to checking and validating unauthorized access. It is also a critical tool for effective risk management, as it helps prevent individuals from acquiring potentially It serves as a vital risk management instrument, helping to prevent individuals from obtaining harmful access combinations that could pose a threat to jeopardize the organization. For instance, example, a toxic access combination might allow an individual might have the ability to both create and approve a purchase orderorders, which represents a toxic access combination that could be detrimental posing a risk to the company. By conducting recertification, organizations can identify and eliminate these types of Recertification enables organizations to detect and rectify such access combinations, thereby mitigating potential risks hazards and enhancing strengthening their security posturestance.

EmpowerID offers a powerful robust Recertification platform that enables , empowering organizations to take a proactive approach to mitigate proactively address potential security issues before they occur. Through its recertification capabilities, EmpowerID automates the process of collecting data, presenting it to auditors, verifying concerns. EmpowerID's recertification capabilities automate data collection, auditor presentation, user access rights verification, and removing inappropriate access removal. This helps organizations streamline their streamlines the recertification process, minimize reducing the risk of unauthorized access , and stay compliant with ensuring regulatory requirementscompliance. Additionally, EmpowerID's platform provides boasts advanced reporting and analytics features that provide , providing organizations with valuable insights into their access management practices and enable fostering data-driven decision-making. With Leveraging EmpowerID's Recertification platform, organizations can enhance bolster their security posture, safeguard their protect sensitive data from security breaches, and operate with confidenceconfidently.

Recertification Policies and Access Recertification Audits

What are Recertification policies?

Recertification Policies are policies comprise a collection set of guidelines and procedures that an organization establishes to ensure that access rights are regularly reviewed and verified to align organizations implement to regularly review and verify user access rights in accordance with user roles, company policies, and regulatory requirements. Policies outline which users and what access rights will be reviewed, and in In EmpowerID's Recertification platform, you can define tailor various policy aspects of the policy, such as:

, including access type, default decisions for unattended recertification requests

, and who or what needs

In EmpowerID, you can create recertification. EmpowerID allows creating different types of reusable recertification policies that are reusable, such as certifying the identity of an external partner's identity or reviewing the access of certain high-risk management roles during an audit. These policies can be specified in one or more recertification policies and later attached linked to an audit for implementation.

What are Access Recertification Audits?

An Access Recertification Audit is a process of Audits involve reviewing user access rights to ensure that they are appropriate and comply appropriateness and compliance with an organization's internal policies and regulatory standards. Typically, the recertification process involves conducting audits that Audits collect data based on the configuration of associated recertification policies. This data is then forwarded , which are then sent to authorized auditors, such as managers , role owners, or data owners, for review and validation. During the Access Recertification Audit, auditors Auditors can identify and address any resolve discrepancies or issues with user access rights to ensure during an audit, ensuring compliance with company policies, regulations, and industry standards. EmpowerID generates a business request item items for each access, which is are presented as a task tasks to auditors to recertify discrepancies and provide access revocation. The audit data generated in an audit about access is a snapshot , representing the captured state it was captured, which will not change. EmpowerID maintains , with EmpowerID maintaining an audit trail of these access snapshots and the related decisions made concerning the access.

The recertification policy outlines the defines rules and procedures for reviewing access rights, while the recertification audit is the actual review of access rights against company policies and regulations. Since access recertification is a continuous process, EmpowerID allows EmpowerID enables organizations to schedule recertification audits to run periodically, such as on a quarterly or , monthly basis, weekly, daily, or on demand. By using With 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 compliance with regulatory requirements.

Recertification Architecture and Process Flow

This diagram describes the The following diagram illustrates EmpowerID's Recertification Architecture of EmpowerID. Detailed information about , with detailed explanations of each process is described provided below the diagram.

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.Define the Recertification policy

   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 a Target to the Recertification Policy: Adding – Configure the policy with a target to a recertification policy configures specify 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 the 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 – Configure the policy to specify the data to be collected with item type scopes. Item scopes enable 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.

   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

   Create and define an audit

   1. Create Recertification Audit – Audits are needed to trigger Recertification policies.

   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.  – After creating the audit, you link it to one or more Recertification policies.

3. Run the audit

   1. The EmpowerID recertification engine

   runs

   1. executes the audit

   on provided schedule, which automatically collects

   1. according to the scheduled timeline, automatically collecting access data and

   saves

   1. preserving it as snapshots,

   meaning

   1. which represent the state of the data

   represents the state it was captured, which will not change.

   1. The at the time of capture and remain unchanged.

   2. This collected data is used to create generate Business Requests and Their their associated items. In EmpowerID, each access recertification is represented as a Business Request Item or , an automatically generated task request which is presented to auditors as a Business requestRequest. The Attestation Policy Compiler, a background job Attestion Policy Compiler does the collection of data and generation of business requests. You can , manages data collection and business request generation. To verify the audit's effectiveness in generating requests, follow the instructions in "Verify Business Requests are Generated to see if the audit generates the requests. ."

   3. Auditors and responsible managers provide make decisions to Certify, Revoke, and other actions in the business requests. Instruction to Provide Business Requests Decisions These business requests contains , such as certifying or revoking access, in response to business requests. Instructions for providing decisions on Business Requests can be found in "Provide Business Request Decisions." These business requests contain details about the access for the person that needs to be certified for each individual.

   4. Once the After auditors provide the make decisions on the business requestrequests, the fulfillment workflow picks the decision and fulfills itprocesses these decisions. The background job Business Request Fulfillment does the fulfillment background job completes this task based on the provided business decisions.