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Personnel security
Personnel security ensures that individuals granted access to organizational assets are trustworthy and that their access is strictly managed throughout their employment lifecycle. Most frameworks require these controls to mitigate insider threats and prevent unauthorized system access by former employees or unvetted contractors.
Counts toward
Implement it once
- Establish a standardized background screening process for all new hires, tailored to local legal requirements.
- Create a formal onboarding workflow that triggers account creation only after HR approval and identity verification.
- Define role-based access controls (RBAC) to ensure "movers" receive the correct permissions for their new role while removing old ones.
- Implement a mandatory offboarding checklist that ensures immediate revocation of all logical and physical access upon termination.
- Conduct periodic access reviews to verify that current user permissions remain aligned with actual job functions.
Evidence it produces
- Background check completion certificates or signed HR attestations for each employee.
- Onboarding tickets or forms documenting the request, approval, and provisioning of initial access.
- Offboarding logs showing a timestamp correlation between an employee's departure date and their account deactivation.
- Signed periodic access review reports demonstrating that permissions were audited and pruned.
Where it counts
Implementing a unified identity lifecycle process satisfies the personnel security requirements common to nearly all major security certifications. By documenting these steps once, an organization provides a consistent set of artifacts that auditors across different frameworks accept as proof of operational control.