ConductorOne’s new feature Auditor-Ready Data Accuracy Reporting helps businesses save time, enhance compliance audit outcomes, and build stronger auditor confidence. By providing auditor-ready data accuracy reporting, organizations can streamline their reporting processes, improve the accuracy of their compliance audits, and ensure a higher level of trust with auditors and stakeholders.
In an era of heightened regulatory scrutiny and evolving security risks, ConductorOne, the modern identity governance platform, has introduced a new feature designed to streamline compliance audits and ensure data accuracy for user access reviews (UARs). With an emphasis on simplifying compliance and improving audit outcomes, this feature enhances ConductorOne’s existing UAR and risk detection capabilities, saving time, boosting audit results, and fostering greater confidence with both internal and external auditors.
At the time of the announcement, ConductorOne’s CEO Alex Bovee said, “Accuracy is a critical factor for user access reviews. For compliance, the ability to prove accuracy helps teams give auditors the evidence needed to ensure audits go smoothly for everyone. When used for security, accurate UARs make it easier to spot risks before they become issues.”
Alex added, ‘With this new functionality, we’re helping teams and auditors succeed by providing them with the tools they need to drive better outcomes for both compliance and security.”
The new feature automatically surfaces the status of data sources tied to UAR campaigns, ensuring that all data used for audits is accurate and up-to-date. If any issues, such as connection errors or stale data, are detected, users can immediately resolve them with a simple click. This proactive approach helps businesses avoid last-minute surprises and ensures that the data provided to auditors is verifiable and reliable.
The latest feature comes within a year of ConductorOne’s launch of ConductorOne Access Fabric (January 2024) and Shadow App Detection (May 2024) solutions. The solution helps businesses automatically discover, secure, and manage access to shadow IT. This feature detects and monitors employee logins to unauthorized apps, allowing security teams to bring them under full control. With real-time visibility into shadow app usage, organizations can significantly reduce the risks associated with unmanaged applications.
What is Access Fabric?
Access Fabric is a unified data layer that powers the ConductorOne platform, enabling advanced access orchestration and automation across an organization’s entire technology stack. It provides comprehensive visibility into complex environments by integrating fragmented access controls across SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, on-premises systems, directories, and HR systems. By consolidating access data into one cohesive view, Access Fabric allows security teams to efficiently manage and monitor user access. It also enables key features like the security dashboard and access explorer, which help teams quickly identify and address access-related risks, improving overall security and compliance.
What is Shadow App Detection?
Shadow App Detection is an advanced risk management functionality within ConductorOne that helps security teams monitor and manage unmanaged apps (Shadow IT) in their environment. When a new shadow app is detected, it is automatically cataloged and flagged for review. Security teams gain visibility into which users have signed up for the app when they did so, and their activity within the app.
From there, security teams can choose to either sanction the app, bringing it under full management or ignore it if it’s not a current concern. To sanction an app, teams simply assign an owner, and the app can be managed just like any other application within ConductorOne. If an app is ignored, usage continues to be monitored, providing ongoing visibility into the number of users and any changes in activity. Ignored apps can be brought under management at any time, ensuring flexibility and control over Shadow IT.
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ConductorOne Auditor-ready Data Accuracy Reporting: Key Benefits for CIOs and CISOs
- Time Savings: By automating the verification of UAR data accuracy, businesses can significantly reduce the time spent manually checking and validating data sources. This minimizes delays and simplifies the overall audit process.
- Enhanced Compliance: ConductorOne’s automated reporting ensures that businesses can deliver auditor-ready data, meeting the stringent requirements of compliance frameworks like Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and GDPR.
- Security Confidence: The accuracy of UARs not only facilitates smoother audits but also enhances the security posture by enabling teams to spot overprivileged, inappropriate, or unused access before they become security risks.
- Seamless Integration: ConductorOne integrates with various data sources and applications, providing a comprehensive view of access rights and ensuring that data is accurate throughout the compliance process.
Closing the Accuracy Gap in Compliance Audits
While automation has helped streamline the execution of User Access Reviews (UARs), validating the accuracy of the data remains a manual and often cumbersome task for many organizations. Traditionally, businesses have relied on manual methods such as screenshots to validate data accuracy, leading to inefficiencies and errors that frustrate IT leaders, security teams, compliance regulators, and auditors.
ConductorOne’s auditor-ready data accuracy reporting modernizes this process by automatically capturing the evidence auditors need to confirm UAR accuracy. This feature ensures that all data sources and application connectors function correctly, providing real-time visibility into data accuracy for better-performing compliance audits.
In addition, ConductorOne allows auditors to access detailed, timestamped data files, making it easier to conduct deeper investigations when necessary.
For security teams, the ability to proactively spot and fix data accuracy issues ensures that potential risks are addressed before they can escalate. This improves compliance and strengthens the organization’s overall security posture.
5-Part FAQ Section for Engagement
1. How does ConductorOne ensure data accuracy for User Access Reviews (UARs)?
- ConductorOne automatically checks the status of data sources linked to UAR campaigns, providing real-time insights into existing issues such as connection errors or outdated data. This allows users to quickly resolve problems before initiating the review.
2. Can ConductorOne’s new feature be used for all types of compliance audits?
- Yes, the new feature is designed to simplify audits for different compliance frameworks, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GDPR, and other industry-specific regulations.
3. What happens if an issue is detected with a data source?
- If a data source is found to have an issue, users can resolve it with just a click, ensuring the data remains accurate and up-to-date before the UAR campaign begins.
4. How does this feature benefit security teams?
- By providing accurate, up-to-date data, security teams can identify overprivileged or unused access that may pose security risks, helping prevent potential breaches or unauthorized access.
5. Can auditors access detailed data files for further investigation?
- Yes, ConductorOne allows auditors to access timestamped data files for a deeper investigation, ensuring they have the evidence they need to verify data accuracy.
Designed with flexibility in mind, ConductorOne offers a wide range of direct connectors that integrate seamlessly with cloud, on-premise, and custom applications. Its Access Fabric unifies previously siloed access and permissions data across an organization’s entire environment, providing real-time visibility and dynamic access controls. This enables businesses to implement just-in-time access, automate access reviews, and manage the full identity lifecycle more efficiently.
ConductorOne’s user-friendly interface ensures that teams can quickly deploy and manage the platform, while its AI-powered automation significantly boosts productivity by streamlining processes. Trusted by forward-thinking enterprises such as DigitalOcean, Instacart, Ramp, and Zscaler, ConductorOne is the solution that IT teams rely on to mitigate identity risks and improve operational efficiency across the organization.
Source: ConductorOne
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