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Access Reviews & Compliance: Continuous, Intelligent, Audit-Ready

Monitor user permissions across all systems, flag anomalies, automate periodic reviews, and maintain complete audit trails without manual effort.

The Challenge

Quarterly access reviews are painful manual exercises. IT exports user lists from dozens of systems into spreadsheets, emails department heads, chases responses for weeks, then manually implements changes across disconnected systems. By the time reviews complete, they're already outdated. Auditors demand proof of timely, complete reviews.

Old Way
Quarterly manual export of users from 30+ systems into spreadsheets
Email spreadsheets to managers: "Review your team's access"
Managers ignore emails or rubber-stamp without reviewing
IT manually revokes access in each system based on spreadsheet responses
No visibility into access patterns or risk
Reviews happen quarterly, risks exist 89 days unnoticed
Audit prep takes days assembling evidence from multiple systems
Cross-system dependencies ignored: Salesforce revoked but API keys remain
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Continuous monitoring of access across entire application portfolio
Intelligent, contextualized reviews delivered in Slack/Teams: "Sarah hasn't used Salesforce in 90 days - still needed?"
Agent highlights anomalies: dormant accounts, excessive privileges, orphaned access after role changes
Approved changes executed automatically across all systems, including legacy apps
Risk-based prioritization: "3 contractors still have admin access 60 days post-project"
Real-time alerts: "User gained production DB access - does this align with their role?"
Instant compliance reports with timestamped proof of reviews and actions
Agent understands relationships: removing access also revokes API keys, removes from Slack channels, updates downstream systems

The Difference

We're not replacing your quarterly review process - we're making it continuous and intelligent. Cenna monitors access patterns in real-time, identifies anomalies, and presents bite-sized review tasks when they matter, not on arbitrary quarterly schedules.

Unlike traditional IAM tools that only work with modern SSO systems, Cenna handles your entire environment - including that legacy ERP that requires browser automation to check permissions. The system understands context: if someone transfers from Sales to Engineering, it flags their lingering Salesforce admin access without waiting for the next review cycle.

Business Impact

(01)
Review cycle time
Weeks → Hours
(02)
Manager response rate
40% → 95% (contextual prompts vs. spreadsheets)
(03)
Access risk window
90 days → Real-time
(04)
Audit preparation
Days → Instant reports
(05)
Compliance violations
Reduced by 80%
(06)
40 hours → 2 hours
40 hours → 2 hours