Turning Audit Nightmares Into Dreams: Pathlock Elevated Access Management

Auditing elevated access management can be a stressful and time-consuming process. Emergency access scenarios, often involving sensitive privileges granted temporarily, require meticulous documentation at every step. Without an automated solution like Pathlock, businesses face the risk of incomplete records, missed documentation, and compliance failures during audits. This blog will explore how Pathlock transforms elevated access management into an audit-friendly process, simplifying audits and ensuring compliance.

The Challenges of Manual Elevated Access Audits

When elevated access is granted manually, the documentation process becomes cumbersome and error-prone. Organizations are required to collect and present multiple pieces of evidence, including:

• Request Forms and Approvals: Emails, tickets, and messages detailing the access request.
• Access Assignment and Revocation Logs: Evidence of when access was granted and revoked within the system.
• Change Logs: Manually pulling change logs from applications and preparing them for review.

This scattered and manual process often leads to audit failures due to missing or incomplete documentation. The complexity of managing emergency access across various systems, combined with the need to tie together all documentation, results in significant time and cost burdens for IT, business users, and auditors alike.

How Pathlock Simplifies the Audit Process

Pathlock streamlines the elevated access audit process by providing a unified, automated system for managing access across all in-scope applications. Here’s how:

1. Centralized Access Management: Pathlock ensures all emergency access requests, approvals, and revocations are documented within the system, eliminating the need for scattered emails, tickets, or screenshots.
2. Automated Change Log Collection: Pathlock automatically generates and organizes change logs for multiple applications, including SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Ariba, Salesforce, and PeopleSoft. This eliminates the need for manual extraction and organization of change logs.
3. Clear and Comprehensive Audit Trails: Pathlock presents audit logs in a user-friendly format, with summaries of changes and detailed line items that are easy to review. Reviewers can see the specifics of each change, including time stamps, field values, and any modifications made.

Improving Compliance with Timely Review and Escalations

Pathlock’s system also ensures timely review of elevated access. If reviewers fail to perform their tasks within a set time, Pathlock sends automated reminders and escalates the review process to ensure compliance with internal controls and regulations. This capability helps organizations meet the strict timelines often required for ITGC (IT General Controls) audits.

Reducing Audit Costs and Time with Standardized Processes

Pathlock’s standardized process for elevated access management across multiple applications significantly reduces the time and cost associated with audits. Auditors can easily access all the necessary documentation and review elevated access activities in one centralized location. This streamlined approach simplifies the audit process, reduces the likelihood of audit failures, and enhances overall compliance efficiency.

Pathlock Elevated Access Management: Face Audits with Confidence

With Pathlock, auditing elevated access no longer has to be a stressful, manual, and error-prone process. The automation, transparency, and comprehensive documentation Pathlock provides ensure that audits are smooth, efficient, and compliant. By centralizing and standardizing the elevated access process, Pathlock allows businesses to face audits with confidence, knowing they have the evidence and control necessary to demonstrate compliance.

Contact us today for a customized demo.