Best Practices: User Security Role Reviews

Overview
  • Provides best practices for periodic security role review
Goals

  • Ensure appropriate security role assignments and segregation of duties
Why are these best practices?
  • Departments should make sure security roles are assigned to appropriate and knowledgeable staff.
  • Departments need to ensure the segregation of duties so that no one person has sole control over the entirety of a transaction.
Best Practices
  • Recommend Department reviews of security roles periodically/annually to ensure consideration of roles and segregation of duties.
  • Review user roles on a periodic basis to:
    • Ensure the appropriate & knowledgeable staff is approving - based on transaction type
    • Review roles to determine if additional approvers are needed - based on approver knowledge, understanding - departmental vs financial (business office)
    • Review changes in personnel/re-organizations, etc.
  • Useful queries in UGA Financials - can include results in review:
    • UGA_USER_ROLES
    • UGA_USER_ROLES_BY_DEPT - all users in a workflow route by department
    • UGA_USER_ROLES_ROUTINGS - by user, list of all roles and departmental assignment
Policy and Other Requirements
Resources

Contributed by Lisa Catanese

Last updated 03/03/2020