Does your organization have a formal process to request, track, review, and fulfill access requests that includes appropriate approval from system or data owners?
Explanation
Disciplined access provisioning is the focus, specifically whether you have a formal process to request, track, review, and fulfill access with approval from the relevant system or data owners. A formal process ensures that access is granted based on legitimate business needs, receives proper authorization, and maintains an audit trail of requests and approvals.
Evidence could include documentation of your access request workflow such as a formal access management policy, screenshots of your ticketing system showing access request workflows, sample access request forms with approval fields, or process diagrams showing the request-to-fulfillment lifecycle with approval gates.
Implementation Example
Initiate requests for new access or additional access for employees, contractors, and others, and track, review, and fulfill the requests, with permission from system or data owners when needed
ID: PR.AA-01.194
Context
- Function
- PR: PROTECT
- Category
- PR.AA: Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control
- Sub-Category
- Identities and credentials for authorized users, services, and hardware are managed by the organization
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