User Access Review
What is User Access Review?
A periodic examination of user access rights across systems to verify that permissions are appropriate and no unauthorized access exists.
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What the standards actually require on user access review
Requirements naming user access review across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
Recertify user access against least privilege and separation of duties at a frequency set by the organisation's risk tolerance, and withdraw what is no longer justified.
CCM-IAM-08 · User Access Review →Baseline control principles for access control (required of every AI (minimum for a low inherent risk)). Identification and authentication govern access to systems, applications and hardware;
hkma-cyber-resilience-assessment-framework-c-raf::3.1.B · 3.1 Access control: baseline level →Logging and monitoring: a process follows every access to the network and to system components. Level 1 (a to h): audit trails of what privileged administrators do on every system and network component; fault logging; logging of changes; event logging;
mtcs-singapore::13.2 · Logging and monitoring process →Questions people ask about user access review
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