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Recertification is a part of an organization’s governance risk and compliance activity. Recertification or attestation are different terms for the same thing. GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) is a collection of rules and procedures that enable firms to achieve their business goals, deal with uncertainty, and behave with integrity. The goal of the recertification is to present the system data to the auditors and to ensure that there are no nonconformity findings during audits.
For example, In the account validity recertification process, a responsible person (manager, supervisor, responsible party, or other designated person) checks the account of the users and decides whether this account should continue to exist or not.
Why recertification is needed?
The implementation of a recertification procedure can safeguard a corporation from potential security breaches and fines. Recertification is already mandated by law in the IAM context.
To guarantee that only authorized personnel has access to the enterprise's data, owners of key business data must verify that all application and database user entitlements and privileges are recertified on a regular basis. With access recertification, it's assured that no users have access to resources that aren't assigned to them.
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What is a recertification audit?
The recertification is often implemented as an audit. The review of user access rights to see if they are proper and correspond to the organization's internal rules and compliance standards is known as access recertification audit. The recertification is often implemented as an audit.
An audit can be considered as a project with a start date and end date. We might want to audit or certify multiple items using an audit. For example, in a Q1 audit we might want to certify, an external partner , identify identity as well as attest a member of certain high-risk management roles. These items are specified in one or more recertification policies. EmpowerID maintains an audit trail of these access snapshots and the decisions made concerning the access. EmpowerID recertification audits can be scheduled to run periodically, such as on a quarterly or monthly basis, weekly, daily, or at will.
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A recertification policy contains actions to ensure that users submit assurance that they have a genuine, continuous need for a particular resource or membership. As a project might have multiple deliverables, a recertification audit can have multiple recertification policies associated with it. We can create recertification policies of different types in the EmpowerID system, and these policies are reusable. For example, in an audit we might want to certify, an external partner , identify identity as well as certify a member of certain high-risk management roles. These items are specified in one or more recertification policies.
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EmpowerID provides a powerful attestation and recertification platform that gives any organization the ability to take a more proactive approach to rectify potential security issues before they occur through crafting EmpowerID audits and recertification policies. The combination of Recertification Policies recertification policies with EmpowerID's robust reporting capabilities allows organizations to create a more thorough and effective resource management strategy.
Auditors can also designate audit as either one-time or ongoing audit. A snapshot of user access and entitlements is obtained when the initial audit begins. This first snapshot creates an irreversible record of your company's security at the moment. Business requests are produced as a result of this, and EmpowerID's process-driven approach keeps both users and the work required moving forward in order to ensure timely completion and correct outcomes of the audit.
The primary building blocks of recertification in is depicted in the below imageoverview diagram.
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For recertification to work in EmpowerID following steps are needed.
Pre-requisite jobs should be started and running - The recertification engine jobs must be running for the recertification to complete successfully.
Create recertification policy - The frequency with which users must validate their requirement for a resource or membership is defined by a recertification policy. The policy also specifies what happens if the receiver refuses or does not reply to the request for recertification. Recertification policies employ a set of alerts to kick off the recertification process's workflow operations.
Add target(s) to recertification policy - The targets of recertification policy defines the scope of the recertification. Recertification policies may target many resources and memberships. For example, whether this recertification audit covers employees of a perticular city or entire organization.
Create recertification audit - An audit is nothing but an end to end implementation of recertification.
Add recertification policy(s) to recertification audit - An audit needs a recertification policy and its targets so that compilation of audit can generate at least one business requests.
Enable and compile the audit - The recertification engine requires the created audit to be enabled so that it can be compiled.
Check business requests are generated - There must be at least one business request generated as a result of compilation of a recertification audit.
Check fulfillment is done - The completion of decision made related to access in EmpowerID systems based on an audit outcome is known as fulfilment.
Verify the result of recertification - Need to verify that the end result of the recertification is correct.
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To maintain the integrity of recertification reviews, users cannot recertify themselves. In other words, a user who can create a recertification policy cannot certify that policy. The EmpowerID admin user is prohibited from participating in the review process by this feature. |
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