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How to review access

Review tasks are assigned to you when your expertise is needed to review access to applications and specific resources as part of a user access review (UAR) campaign.

Complete your reviews

Your organization uses ConductorOne to run user access review (UAR) campaigns. You’ll be assigned reviews in ConductorOne to verify that current access is still appropriate and needed.

You might be asked to review:

  • Your own access
  • The access of people you manage
  • Your colleagues’ access to an application you own

Step 1: Receive a notification

ConductorOne sends notifications by email and in the Slack app (if enabled) when reviews are assigned to you.

Make sure that notification emails reach you: Add no-reply@conductorone.com to your email contacts list.

Go directly to your reviews by clicking the link in your email or Slack notification. Or log into ConductorOne and click Access reviews, then select the campaign.

Step 2: Select how to view your reviews

There are three options, and you can switch between them at any time:

  • By application: review access to each application in a separate review list.

  • By user: review each user’s access in a guided format.

  • Unstructured: all your assigned reviews together in one list.

The campaign administrators may have selected a default view for you, but if you want to see your reviews organized differently, click Change at the top of the page to select a different view.

Step 3: Review the access and provide your decision

Before you begin your reviews: If the campaign administrators have provided any instructions for these access review tasks, you’ll find them at the top of the page.

Each line in the table is a task assigned to you. For each task:

  1. Review the access

    • Look at the account and the resource. Is this access needed for the user’s work and appropriate to the user’s role in the company?
  2. Find more information and key insights

    • Click the task number to find more information about the access to help you make your decision. The Insights section gives details such as how many other users in the organization have this access, the risk level of the access, and more.
  3. Provide your decision

    • Click Certify to indicate that this access is needed and appropriate.

    • Click Remove to indicate that the access isn’t needed or isn’t appropriate, and that you’re recommending its removal.

    I see there is more than one reviewer step. If I remove the access does it still go on to other reviewers? No, the review will stop at you, and the task will be closed.

    Will the access be removed immediately? Maybe. Depending on the revocation policy governing the resource, the revocation might require a second review and approval before the access is removed.

Step 4: Repeat the process

Repeat these steps to review and take action on each review assigned to you.

To take the same action on multiple tasks at once, select your target tasks by clicking each task’s checkbox, then select the action from the menu at the bottom left. You’ll be prompted to add a comment about your action, which is posted on each impacted task.

Copilot’s review recommendations and insights

ConductorOne Access Copilot provides insights and recommendations to help you complete your reviews.

In the list view and in a task’s details view, you’ll see an Insights flag drawing your attention to important information about the access under review.

A list of campaign review tasks showing flags in the Insights column.

Copilot makes two kinds of recommendations about individual reviews:

  • Take a closer look
  • Remove this access

If Copilot suggests taking a closer look at the access, you’ll see an explanation of why a closer look is advised in the details view.

A review task's details screen showing a Copilot flag on an insight and a recommendation to take a closer look.

If Copilot recommends removing the access, you’ll see the Copilot logo on the Remove button, and an explanation of the recommendation in the details view.

A review task's details screen showing a Copilot flag on an insight and a recommendation to remove the access.

Additional task actions

Depending on your user permissions in ConductorOne and the current status of the review task, you might have additional task actions available to you in the (more actions) menu.

Actions labeled with a 🔐 symbol are only available to users who have the Super Administrator role.

Task actionDescriptionUseful when
Cancel 🔐Stop the task and close it with Canceled status. The task remains in the Task log.You don’t want or need to complete a task, but want to retain a record of its existence.
Delete 🔐Stop the task and delete it from ConductorOne entirely. No record of the task is retained in the Task log.You don’t want or need to complete a task, and want the record of its existence removed from ConductorOne.
(Action) with commentTake an action (such as certify, approve, mark as provisioned) and add a comment to the task.You want to provide context or documentation with your decision
CommentAdd a comment to the task.You have a question, request, comment, or context to share.
Reassign toAssign the task to a different user.Someone else should complete the task
Restart 🔐Restore the task to its starting state. All decisions and actions on the task are reset. The task’s history prior to the restart is maintained in the task’s audit log.You need to start the task over, using the current policy.
Hard reset 🔐Restore the task to its starting state and recalculate and apply the policy that governs the task. All decisions and actions on the task are reset. The task’s history prior to the hard reset is maintained in the task’s audit log.You need to recreate a task so it reflects changes to the governing policy. This is especially helpful after policy updates.
Change policy 🔐Restore the task to its starting state and apply the policy you select. All decisions and actions on the task are reset. The task’s history prior to the policy change is maintained in the task’s audit log. This option is not available on request tasks.You need to recreate a review or revocation task using a different governing policy.
Skip step 🔐Skip the current step in the task’s execution plan. The skipped step is assumed to have been completed successfully.You need to move a task forward without waiting for a user or system to act.
Process now 🔐Force a refresh and update of the task’s current status.A task has gotten stuck or is in an error state.
Send reminderSend an email reminder to the user the task is currently assigned to.A task has been sitting open and the assigned user might have forgotten about it.