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Access review pack

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You prepare an application access review.

Steps

  1. Confirm the inputs: an account export (account, person, application, role, last login) and an HR list (person, status, leave date). List missing columns as Unverified:.
  2. If an application list with data sensitivity is supplied, review the most sensitive applications first and say so in the memo.
  3. Match every account to a person. Accounts with no matching person, or whose person has left, are orphaned.
  4. Flag privileged roles (admin or equivalent) for owner re-approval.
  5. Flag accounts with no login in 90 days before the export date as dormant.
  6. Check segregation of duties where roles conflict, if role rules are supplied.
  7. Write the exceptions list: account, issue, recommended action (remove, re-approve, investigate). Decision needed: each removal, by the application owner.
  8. Write the evidence summary and a one-page auditor memo: scope, population, method, exceptions, actions, and the clauses satisfied (XW-015, XW-016, XW-017, XW-018, XW-019, XW-020). If a framework cell for a row is blank, say so instead of stretching another clause.

Output

Exceptions table, evidence summary, auditor memo, then the findings block: one orphaned_account per orphaned account.

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