Location attestations
You can use attestation to test the balance between security and compliance within your company. Managers or others responsible for compliance can use the One Identity Manager attestation functionality to certify correctness of permissions, requests, or exception approvals either scheduled or on demand. Recertification is the term generally used to describe regular certification of permissions. One Identity Manager uses the same workflows for recertification and attestation.
There are attestation policies defined in One Identity Manager for carrying out attestations. Attestation policies specify which objects are attested when, how often, and by whom. Once an attestation is performed, One Identity Manager creates attestation cases that contain all the necessary information about the attestation objects and the attestor responsible. The attestor checks the attestation objects. They verify the correctness of the data and initiate any changes that need to be made if the data conflicts with internal rules.
Attestation cases record the entire attestation sequence. Each attestation step in an attestation case can be audit-proof reconstructed. Attestations are run regularly using scheduled tasks. You can also trigger single attestations manually.
Attestation is complete when the attestation case has been granted or denied approval. You specify how to deal with granted or denied attestations on a company basis.
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Displaying location attestation cases
You can see the locations' attestation cases.
In addition, you can obtain more information about the attestation cases.
To display attestation cases
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In the menu bar, click Responsibilities > Auditing.
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On the Auditing page, click Locations.
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On the Auditing - Location page, click the location whose attestation cases you want to display.
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In the details pane, click Show details.
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On the overview page, click Attestation.
This opens the Attestation - <location name> page (see Auditing– Location (page description)).
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(Optional) Click on a tab to display the respective attestation cases.
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(Optional) To display objects involved in an attestation case in detail, perform the following actions:
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In the list, click an attestation case.
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In the details pane, click Show details.
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In the Attested object dialog, select an object in the Object menu.
This shows information about the object.
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(Optional) Click View current state of the object
This opens an overview of the attestation.
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(Optional) To display all the identities that can approve the attestation case, perform the following actions:
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In the list, click the attestation case.
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In the details pane, click the Workflow tab.
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(Optional) To show previous attestation cases for the selected object, perform the following actions:
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In the list, click an attestation case.
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In the details pane, click the History tab.
This displays a list of the attestation cases that have already taken place for the selected object. You can get more information about each attestation case.
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Displaying attestors of location pending attestation cases
You can see identities that still have to approve location attestation cases.
To show attestors of an attestation case
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In the menu bar, click Responsibilities > Auditing.
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On the Auditing page, click Locations.
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On the Auditing - Location page, click the location whose attestation cases you want to display.
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In the details pane, click Show details.
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On the overview page, click Attestation.
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(Optional) On the Attestations – <location name> page, click on a tab to display the corresponding attestation cases.
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In the list, click the attestation case that has attestors you want to show.
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In the details pane, click Actions > Send a reminder mail.
The Send a reminder mail dialog lists all the identities that can approve this attestation case. You can now send these identities a reminder.
To show attestors of all attestation cases
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In the menu bar, click Responsibilities > Auditing.
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On the Auditing page, click Locations.
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On the Auditing - Location page, click the location whose attestation cases you want to display.
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In the details pane, click Show details.
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On the overview page, click Attestation.
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(Optional) On the Attestations – <location name> page, click on a tab to display the corresponding attestation cases.
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Click View approvers for pending cases.
The Send a reminder mail dialog shows all the identities that still have attestation cases to approve. You can now send these identities a reminder.
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Location compliance
Companies have different requirements that they need for regulating internal and external identities' access to company resources. On the one hand, rule checks are used for locating rule violations and on the other hand, to prevent them. By using these rules, you can demonstrate compliance with legislated regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The following demands are made on compliance:
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Compliance rules define what an employee is entitled to do or not do. For example, an identity may not have both entitlements A and B at the same time.
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Company policies are very flexible, and can be defined for any company resources you are managing with Manager. For example, a policy might only allow identities from a certain department to own a certain entitlement.
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Each item that an identity access can be given a risk value. A risk index can be calculated for identities, accounts, organization, roles, and for the groups of resources available for request. You can then use the risk indexes to help prioritize your compliance activities.
Some rules are preventative. For example, a request will not be processed if it violates the rules, unless exception approval is explicitly granted and an approver allows it. Compliance rules (if appropriate) and company policies are run on a regular schedule and violations appear in the identity’s Web Portal to be dealt with there. Company policies can contribute to mitigation control by reducing risk. For example, if risks are posed by identities running processes outside the One Identity Manager solution and causing violations. Reports and dashboards give you further insights into your state of compliance. For more information, see What statistics are available?.
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