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Certification Overview

Certification is the process of verifying that links between users, roles, and resources are true and correct. Certification enables you to review role hierarchy, user privileges, and business rules that you define in CA GovernanceMinder. When you initiate a certification, CA GovernanceMinder automatically invites managers to review and certify the access privileges of the users or resources they administer. CA GovernanceMinder provides tools to customize, track, and manage the certification process, and to implement changes indicated by reviewers.

Certifications support the following business cases:

• Confirm data security compliance—Where there is a legal requirement to demonstrate data security measures, certifications document periodic review of employee access to data.
• Refine Role Based Access Control—Review of the resources and child roles included in each role confirms that the role hierarchy suits actual patterns of usage, and that role definitions are useful.

During a certification, a business manager can perform the following actions:

• Review and certify any links directly assigned to them
• Reassign certification items
• Add a comment, file, or link to certification items
• View CA User Activity Reporting information when reviewing certification items

A compliance officer can perform the following actions:

• Monitor certification progress
• Send escalation emails to participating reviewers
• Initiate the approval and implementation phase of the certification

An administrator can perform the following actions:

• Create certification templates
• Save certification decisions to an Audit Card