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Distributed Access Recertification Completeness

A reproducible protocol to measure whether active access has a current role need, approver, review event, and removal path, with evidence lineage, reviewer checks, privacy limits, and transparent interpretation.

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Key finding

The unit is one worker-system-role access grant in the review population; missing and conflicted evidence remain visible rather than becoming favorable states.

Research question and use

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness asks how to measure whether active access has a current role need, approver, review event, and removal path. In this protocol, the result supports a bounded operations review and does not decide individual employment, legal, security, or customer outcomes.

Population and unit

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness defines the unit as one worker-system-role access grant in the review population. In this protocol, freeze population, window, inclusion rules, exclusions, and duplicate handling before viewing results.

Data dictionary and lineage

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness uses a versioned dictionary. In this protocol, capture study key, role, system, privilege, business need, approver, last review, exception, removal owner, and outcome; every code points to its artifact, observer, time, transformation, and adjudication.

Analysis plan

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness compares role family, system class, privilege level, region, and recertification result. In this protocol, publish counts beside rates and preserve missing, conflicted, and unresolved states.

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness predeclares one primary outcome. In this protocol, the proportion of grants with complete current evidence and a named removal owner. Label other comparisons exploratory.

Reliability

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness uses two reviewers on a blinded overlap sample. In this protocol, publish agreement, disagreements, adjudications, and rule changes for one worker-system-role access grant in the review population.

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness tests reconstruction. In this protocol, reopen study key, role, system, privilege, business need, approver, last review, exception, removal owner, and outcome without the first reviewer’s private notes.

Privacy and limits

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness minimizes workforce and client data. In this protocol, represent one worker-system-role access grant in the review population with a study key and report controlled grouped results.

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness states ambiguity. In this protocol, an active account does not establish current need or appropriate privilege. Selection, inaccessible artifacts, system changes, and reviewer learning may also limit interpretation.

Sensitivity checks

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness keeps alternatives explicit. In this protocol, repeat with expired reviews counted as failures and as a separate unresolved state. Preserve the primary result and show how conclusions move.

Reporting template

Distributed Access Recertification Completeness reports a complete record. In this protocol, publish the window, eligible count, exclusions, missing data, source coverage, outcome distribution, agreement, sensitivity checks, and counterexamples.

Sources

  1. DOL: Hours worked
  2. DOL: Worker classification
  3. EEOC: National origin discrimination
  4. IRS: Independent contractor or employee
  5. FTC: Safeguards Rule
  6. NIST Privacy Framework
  7. NIST Cybersecurity Framework
  8. CISA: Recognize and report phishing
  9. CISA: Secure our world
  10. NIST: Cybersecurity supply chain risk management

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