On Friday I posted part 1 of the additional details about how Quick Connect for Base Systems: SharePoint Integration will provision SharePoint. This post, Part 2, will provide some additional details on the SharePoint Attestation and Remediation aspects of our solution. SharePoint Attestation: For customers who own ActiveRoles Server and ActiveRoles Self-Service manager, this new [...]
Most legal or regulatory requirements simply state that both Access Controls and Attestation are required for an audit, but they don’t specify if those controls are to be paper based or part of an electronic workflow. Many organizations spend thousands of hours building a paper based set of controls and attestation process only to be [...]
First there is no built-in mechanism to enforce an attestation policy or help perform the access reviews. Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Active Directory use groups as the basic mechanism to control access to resources, and most non-Microsoft operating systems and directories use them as well. Because groups are universally accepted as the method by [...]
Attestation describes any certification review process where an individual swears to or witness/confirm something important. This term is almost universally used to describe a review/certification process that requires resource owners to verify their authorized users during on an on-going basis. This on-going process Attestation usually provides an organization with a measure of protection from liability [...]
