How to Simplify Audits with Multi-Level Access Reviews

As businesses grow and evolve, managing access permissions becomes increasingly complex. With numerous applications, thousands of users, and intricate role-based entitlements, collecting access information can be daunting. 

The review process is prone to errors, and even after completion, manually implementing remediation actions remains arduous. According to our State of Access Reviews Report, 36% of companies describe this process as being extremely manual, leading to inefficiencies and potential security risks.

It's 2024, and access reviews no longer have to be stuck in the stone age.

Introducing Zluri’s Multi-Level Access Reviews.

Zluri simplifies the complexity by providing an automated solution to conduct multi-level access reviews effortlessly. By involving multiple reviewers in evaluating and approving user access permissions, Zluri enhances your security posture and ensures compliance with industry standards.

How Zluri’s Unified Platform Streamlines Multi-Level Reviews

Complete Access Visibility

Zluri's deep discovery engine automatically fetches data from multiple sources, providing complete visibility into user, application, and access permissions across your entire IT ecosystem. Zluri also notifies admins of access anomalies and misconfigurations, enabling them to quickly address potential security concerns.

Simple, User-Friendly Campaign Builder

With our intuitive interface, you can easily create new certifications, add multi-level reviewers, assign owners, delegate reviews, take reviewer actions with contextual insights, and so much more. Zluri takes the pain out of access reviews, making them effortless and even enjoyable!

Contextual Review Levels

Zluri's multi-level access reviews allow you to involve various stakeholders in your certification campaign based on your organization's access governance policies. Department heads, IT owners, application owners, finance teams, compliance officers, or security experts can review and sign off on reviews, ensuring a thorough and comprehensive review process.

For example:

• First Level: Typically carried out by reporting managers or department heads. As they usually have a better understanding of their team members' roles, they can evaluate access permissions to ensure they align with job responsibilities.
• Second Level: Following the first-level reviews, the process gets escalated to the second level, where the IT administrator re-reviews the decisions taken by the primary reviewers. This secondary reviewer ensures that access permissions are scrutinized from both a governance and security standpoint.

By conducting multi-level reviews, you can ensure a comprehensive, holistic assessment of access risks from cross-functional stakeholders, adding extra levels of checks and balances.

Automated Access Remediation

Upon completion of the reviews, Zluri's powerful auto-remediation engine takes over. It automatically revokes or modifies user access privileges based on the reviewers' decisions, eliminating the need for manual action.

Audit ready reports

Zluri generates detailed, audit-ready reports demonstrating your organization's adherence to compliance standards such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and others. These reports provide a comprehensive trail of the review process, decisions made, and actions taken, ensuring complete audit transparency.

Check out the multi-level reviews walkthrough video to see how it works.

Benefits of Zluri’s Multi-Level Access Reviews

Reduce Audit Complexity: Zluri's easy-to-use campaign builder, contextual reviews, and auto-remediation capabilities significantly reduce the burden of access reviews. With Zluri's fully automated access reviews, you can complete access reviews in days, not weeks or months!

Meet Regulatory Compliance: Industry regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, and others mandate comprehensive access control mechanisms. Zluri's multi-level review process and detailed audit reports help organizations comply with these stringent regulations.

Enhanced Security Posture: By involving multiple reviewers in the access review process, organizations can ensure a more rigorous evaluation of user permissions. This multi-step approach minimizes the risk of unauthorized access and improves the overall security posture.

Minimized Insider Threats: Insider threats pose a significant risk to organizations. Multi-level access reviews help identify and remediate potential access vulnerabilities, reducing the risk of exploitation by malicious insiders or disgruntled employees.

Increased Accountability: Through detailed audit logs, timestamps, and reviewer notes, any discrepancies or issues can be traced back to the specific stage and reviewer, ensuring a higher level of accountability and diligence.

Conclusion

As the complexity of IT environments continues to increase, the need for a structured and thorough review process becomes even more critical. Zluri offers complete access visibility, risk intelligence, multi-level reviews, and auto-remediation to help accelerate your review cycle and minimize the administrative burden on your teams.Streamline your access certification campaigns and minimize security risks with Zluri's multi-level access reviews. Get a free demo to see it in action!

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