Access Review

What this capability handles

How it works in detail.

Access Review solves the quarter that disappears into access-audit spreadsheets. In most security teams the review slips, stale access lingers, and the audit finds accounts no one owns. This capability runs the access review on cadence and surfaces the stale or over-provisioned access that should be removed, so the team closes the review on time with a clean record. It is for security operations in companies of 200 to 2000 employees where access reviews keep falling behind. It works in order. First it pulls access data across your identity provider and critical systems. Then it compares that access against your role matrix, using your prior review and ownership map for context. Next it drafts findings, naming each stale or over-provisioned grant and the remediation it recommends. It routes removal candidates for action and logs the full review. Per account it produces a finding with the rule it triggered and a recommended remediation, attributed and ready to act on. The decision logic is rule-based: it applies role-matrix rules and staleness thresholds to draft findings and recommend removals, so the same access is judged the same way every time. The logic is conservative by design. Privileged-access findings, ownership disputes, and any sensitivity flag do not get actioned automatically; they route to the analyst for the decision. Everything else is drafted and queued for review. Every action is logged and reviewable, so the audit trail is complete and the team can show exactly what was assessed, what was recommended, and who decided. It fits teams that have access data accessible, a documented role matrix, and a GRC tool wired in. Where those are in place, the review runs without the usual scramble. Access Review carries 25-35% of the role's volume and drives 30-40% of its impact, measured as access-review completion on cadence with stale-access removal. The target is completion above 95%, so the review is done on schedule rather than rushed at the deadline, and stale access is removed before it becomes an audit finding. Because it runs every account through the same matrix every quarter, it turns access review from a recurring fire drill into a standing, documented control that the team can trust and the auditor can verify.