The spreadsheet trap
Many access reviews begin with an export of users and roles. The reviewer is then asked to decide whether access remains appropriate with little context about the system, workload, owner, last activity or privilege path.
Context improves the review
An evidence model can connect identities to groups, roles, projects, cloud resources, repositories and organisational ownership. It can highlight stale memberships, privileged access, anomalous combinations or entitlements that no longer align with an active responsibility.
Automation should support, not impersonate, the control owner
The system can collect evidence and prioritise suspicious or excessive access. The accountable human still makes the decision where the control requires human review.
Regenerate instead of reconstruct
A repeatable pipeline produces evidence from authoritative systems each review period. That improves consistency and makes it easier to explain where the data came from. It also reduces the manual collection burden that often dominates audit preparation.
Core governance capabilities are designed around this evidence-first model.
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