ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An international company syncs its on-premises Active Directory with a cloud IGA platform to create accounts and assign role-based entitlements. Audits show job-changers keep unnecessary privileges for months. The CISO wants an automated control that detects entitlement creep and ensures only justified access is retained, aligning with the Monitoring, Reporting, and Maintenance phase of the identity-management lifecycle. Which solution best meets the requirement?
Tighten the enterprise password policy to mandate at least 14-character complex passwords and force rotation every 60 days, then log violations to the SIEM.
Migrate all business applications to SAML-based single sign-on while keeping existing group memberships and manual provisioning processes unchanged.
Enable risk-based multi-factor authentication to require additional factors when users log in from unfamiliar locations, and generate reports of all elevated logons.
Configure the IGA tool to run quarterly access-recertification campaigns that present each user's current roles to their managers for attestation and automatically revoke entitlements that are not reapproved.
Automated periodic access recertification (also called entitlement review or access certification) is a core governance control required by NIST SP 800-53 enhancement AC-2(3) and ISO 27001 control A.9.2.5. The IGA platform can schedule a campaign each quarter that lists every user's current roles and application entitlements. Managers must re-attest to continued need; any items left unapproved are automatically revoked, eliminating privilege creep. MFA, strong passwords, or SAML SSO improve authentication but do not actively detect or remediate stale privileges.
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