Course information

When a control fails in the identity domain, supervisors expect more than a technical fix: they expect governance, evidence, and repeatable effectiveness. This course focuses on excessive access rights and segregation failures and uses realistic failure patterns to guide learners through impact assessment, root cause discipline, and remediation design. It differentiates immediate corrective steps from longer-term preventive strengthening, including SoD conflicts, role redesign, and toxic combination monitoring. Learners build a defensible closure file with approvals, objective artefacts, and re-test results.

 

The outcome is a practical method to reduce recurrence risk, improve supervisory confidence, and demonstrate operational resilience maturity in regulated environments. Practical examples are used throughout the course to illustrate how organisations typically fail in this area, such as incomplete remediation plans, poorly defined ownership, or evidence that cannot be reproduced during inspections. 

 

The course explains how these weaknesses are identified during audits, supervisory reviews, or testing exercises, and how they translate into concrete findings. Learners work through realistic remediation scenarios, including how to prioritise actions based on criticality, how to document decisions in a way that can be reconstructed months later, and how to demonstrate that preventive measures remain effective after organisational or technical changes.

In this course, you should learn to:

• Differentiate corrective actions from preventive actions after excessive access rights and segregation failures.
• Apply governance and escalation rules when timelines are at risk.
• Select objective evidence artefacts for access certification and auditability.
• Plan independent validation before CAPA closure decisions.
• Define monitoring indicators to prove sustained effectiveness..

Learn corrective and preventive actions after excessive access rights and segregation failures, including SoD conflicts and inspection-ready closure evidence.

• Board members
• Senior management
• CTO
• CISO
• IT operations
• Security
• Data Office
• Internal Audit
• Vendor Management

120 minutes