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How to Prepare Your ESI Security Worksheet

To begin planning your ESI security strategy, you must gather information about all the users and applications for which you are responsible. You need to determine how users and applications relate to each other and how detailed you want your security strategy to be.

We recommend using an ESI worksheet to help you define and categorize the various levels of access required by anyone involved in application development. Once you have completed your ESI worksheet, you can begin defining access levels.

Note: Blank worksheets for defining security rules are provided in Security Worksheets.

Keep an updated version of your ESI worksheet available for reference purposes. If you make changes to your Names Equates table or your site security package rules, remember to update your ESI worksheet as well. Use the worksheet to:

• Associate authorization levels with personnel or departments.
• List activities to include for selected departments in Stages 1 and 2 of each environment.
• Refer to when updating or revising your security rules.