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Access reviews and recertification
Walk through the important items in "Access reviews and recertification" and give the practical point of each.
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Access reviews and recertificationthe SOC 2 tie-in
- Recurring, not annual-panic. Quarterly recertification where owners attest that each person still needs each grant.
- Partly automated. Generate the review from live IdP/app state; the human only judges the deltas, not the whole list by hand.
- Evidence-producing. Each review leaves a timestamped record auditors accept as proof of the control operating.
- Closed-loop. Revocations from the review flow back through the same group mechanism that grants access.
Frame least privilege as an enabler, not a brake - that's the security-as-enabler value Cursor screens for. "Group-based access plus JIT elevation means engineers get what they need instantly and lose it automatically, so I improve posture without adding a single approval queue people route around." Security that's frictionless is security that actually holds.
Beware access sprawl. Every manual grant and every standing admin role is debt that compounds and at hypergrowth headcount it compounds fast. Design for revocation by default so the system trends toward least privilege on its own, rather than relying on a heroic annual cleanup.