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Clear Skye IGA Separation of Duties is a powerful policy engine embedded in your existing business processes.
No user should have enough privilege to misuse a system on their own. This simple concept is the heart of Separation of Duties. In short, Separation of Duties, also referred to as Segregation of Duties or SoD calls for a system of checks and balances.
These checks and balances can be enforced by defining roles that cannot be held or executed by the same user, or by enforcing a control when access is attempted (preventative controls). These controls should be evaluated on a scheduled basis to ensure no one has evaded the system of record (detective controls). Separation of Duties is an important part of a mature Identity Governance program.
With a solution native on ServiceNow, policy creators and managers will have a reduced learning curve compared to stand-alone SoD solutions and the organization will benefit by having Separation of Duties findings data available to enhance Security and Risk capabilities.
Clear Skye Separation of Duties enhances compliance by automating controls, streamlining policy creation, and incorporating real-time risk data, enabling businesses to respond quickly to new challenges.
Clear Skye Separation of Duties allows for toxic combinations to be created by easy to read business capabilities (approve a payment / write a check). This means that risk specialists don’t have to learn the arcane naming conventions for permissions within the systems in question to create a policy and auditors can quickly check off that there are controls on the needed toxic combinations.
Clear Skye IGA Separation of Duties supports both preventative and detective controls. Building on the ease of creation, Clear Skye IGA SoD provides the ability to put the right roles and access policies in place to prevent conflicts of interest from causing damage.
These controls are evaluated on change request, and on a scheduled, nightly basis to detect both intentional and inadvertent attempts to provide or gain permissions in violation of the organizations identity governance process.
Compliance doesn’t always mean “stop this from happening.” Often, it has more to do with the playbook used when a finding happens (a mitigating control). As a native application on ServiceNow, you are leveraging the world’s most flexible workflow engine, making almost any automated response to a finding possible. Do you need to route to a different person to approve an exception? Do you need to execute a playbook using flows? Or do you simply need to block an action from happening? Clear Skye SoD can support any automated reaction your organization requires.
Any workload running on your ServiceNow instance can take advantage of the policy and findings information stored in Clear Skye SoD. An example could be an organization using ServiceNow IRM to manage segregation of duties for ServiceNow Roles and permissions. Being native on the ServiceNow platform means that SOD control can be extended to all applications in the environment but still appears in the IRM dashboards and workspaces. Being native on the ServiceNow platform means that all existing workflows can leverage SOD information to provide context for better decisions.
Segregating duties improves operational integrity and transparency. It promotes accountability, as employees understand that their work will be reviewed by others. This structured oversight helps maintain high standards of work, reduce inefficiencies, and prevent operational bottlenecks. Using Clear Skye's SoD engine on the ServiceNow platform, organizations can streamline policy management, improve risk oversight, and enhance operational efficiency. By automating controls, simplifying policy creation, and integrating real-time risk data, Clear Skye Separation of Duties not only strengthens compliance efforts but also empowers businesses to adapt swiftly to emerging challenges.
Being secure and compliant doesn’t only mean that there should be protection against certain combinations of rights. Often, it can also mean permission A needs to always go with permission B, or it is also a risk and violation of organizational policy. Clear Skye SoD is built on a policy engine that also allows for the creation of must-have combinations (Administrators of the financial systems MUST also have multi-factor authentication turned on). This ensures that risk can be viewed both from directions, greatly extending the organization's ability to control risk.
By dividing tasks and responsibilities among different individuals, Clear Skye IGA Separation of Duties ensures that no single person has complete control over critical processes.
Reduce the likelihood of fraudulent activities since collusion between multiple people is harder to achieve than single-person fraud.
Create a system of checks and balances, making it easier to detect and rectify errors before they escalate.
Establish clear lines of responsibility, which are essential for auditing and reporting.
Reduce the risk of unauthorized access or data manipulation by limiting opportunities for exploitation.
