You can use attestation to test the balance between security and compliance within your company. Managers or others responsible for compliance can use 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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You can display the devices' 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 Devices.
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On the Auditing - Device page, click the device 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 - <device name> page (see Attestations – Device (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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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 Devices.
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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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In the list, click the (pending) attestation case that has attestors you want to display.
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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 Devices.
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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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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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