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Access Provisioning in Depth

Roles, approvals, segregation of duties and provisioning across ERP, SaaS and cloud, and how to test it so the evidence holds.

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21slides with notes
2Excel exercises
2026standards

What you will be able to do

Learning outcomes

  • Explain why role design, not the request ticket, is the real provisioning control
  • Identify segregation of duties conflicts and judge whether mitigating controls are adequate
  • Tell a meaningful approval from a paper one, across ERP, SaaS, cloud and database access
  • Build a complete population from the system itself and test it with the right sample
  • Test automated provisioning, privileged and emergency access, and non-human identities

Part 1: Designing access

Roles are the control, not the ticket · Combinations that should not sit with one person · Preventing, finding and living with conflicts

Part 2: Provisioning in practice

A paper approval versus a real one · Where provisioning actually happens · Movers are where access quietly piles up · Granting power for as short a time as possible · Service accounts, API keys and app consents

Part 3: Testing provisioning

Start from the system, not the ticket queue · Testing access provisioning · When a machine grants access, test the machine · Six ways provisioning tests go wrong

21-slide course deck

Every slide has full speaker notes, a worked audit finding, a knowledge check and current sources.

Participant workbook

Notes pages, a finding template, a 10-question knowledge check and a glossary.

Excel exercises

Trace 30 role assignments from the system to approved requests. Find users with conflicting duties and check for mitigation. All data is fictional.

Pricing

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Learner Pack

£29 one-off

For self-study and auditors building their skills.

  • Course deck (PDF, 21 slides)
  • Participant workbook
  • Excel exercise file
  • Single-user licence
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