Data Governance · Access · Component
The review
When access was last checked and what was removed — because permissions are granted readily and revoked rarely.
The deliverable
What it is
Access reviews find three things reliably: people who have left, people who changed role, and access nobody has used in a year.
A default of removal for unused access makes the review quick, since the alternative is asking every holder whether they still need it.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
Nobody objects to losing access they have never used. Dormant grants are the easiest removal to justify.
The other components in access
The permissions
Who may see what, granted by role — because individual grants accumulate with tenure and are never reviewed.
LearnThe workarounds
Where people are routing around access controls, and why — because exported spreadsheets are a symptom rather than a violation.
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