Employee role changes: A checklist for removing old access
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Employee role transfers require a structured review of current and future access to prevent privilege creep while preserving permissions needed for continuing duties and approved handovers. The process begins by documenting the move, managers, effective date, responsibilities, and every access path, including groups, direct roles, resource shares, elevated privileges, integrations, and tokens. Automation such as Microsoft Entra dynamic groups can update some access, but its scope, nested-group limitations, downstream provisioning behavior, and attribute controls must be verified rather than assumed. Old and new managers, application owners, and change implementers should classify each grant as retained, removed, newly added, or temporary, with approvers, effective times, evidence, and exact expiry dates recorded. Temporary handover access must support a specific task, have a named owner and deadline, and require renewed approval if extended. Changes should be verified within each affected application, accounting for overlapping access paths, active sessions, caching, and synchronization delays, while confirming both that new-role tasks work and removed privileges are no longer available. Follow-up is required to remove temporary grants, resolve failed automation or unexplained permissions, and retain the completed record as an auditable explanation of the employee’s access after the transfer.
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