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To ensure security compliance and audit readiness, Role owners can set up role access reviews to occur at scheduled intervals. You can also start a role access review manually if required.

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  In Genetec ClearID™, a site is a logical entity. Sites include one or more areas. Each site and area can have a different owner.
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- About access reviews
  An access review is the process of reviewing access for an area, role, or identity to confirm that the access is still required and valid. To ensure security compliance and audit readiness you can schedule your access reviews to occur automatically.
- Setting up automatic expiration for access reviews
  To ensure that reviewers and verifiers only review current access information, Account administrators can specify an expiration period for access reviews. If no expiration is set, reviewers may evaluate outdated data.
- Scheduling area access reviews
  To ensure security compliance and audit readiness, Site owners can set up area access reviews to occur at scheduled intervals. You can also start an area access review manually if required.
- Scheduling identity access reviews
  To ensure security compliance and audit readiness, you can set up identity access reviews to occur at scheduled intervals. These identity access reviews are performed based on a list of selected roles.
- Scheduling role access reviews
  To ensure security compliance and audit readiness, Role owners can set up role access reviews to occur at scheduled intervals. You can also start a role access review manually if required.
- Modifying access reviews
  After you have scheduled your area, role, or identity access reviews, you can modify or delete them.
- About access reviews report
  In Genetec ClearID™, an access reviews report is a list of access reviews. The report includes information about area, role, or identity access reviews and the current review status (not started, started, in progress, completed, or expired).
- Checking the status of access reviews
  Site owners can check the status of access reviews to ensure that the organization is security-compliant, audit-ready, and on-time. Supervisors can also check the status of identity access reviews for their direct reports, and Role owners can check the status of reviews for the roles they own.
- Completing an area access review (site owner)
  To ensure security compliance or audit readiness, Site owners can perform access reviews to check who has access to an area.
- Completing an area access review (area manager)
  To ensure security compliance or audit readiness, Area managers can perform access reviews to check who has access to an area.
- Completing a role access review (role owner)
  To ensure security compliance or audit readiness, Role owners can perform access reviews to check which areas a role can access.
- Completing a role access review (role manager)
  To ensure security compliance or audit readiness, Role managers can perform access reviews to check which roles have access to an area.
- Completing an identity access review (supervisor)
  To ensure security compliance or audit readiness, Supervisors can perform identity access reviews to check your direct reports areas and roles access.
- Verifying an area access review
  To further ensure security compliance or audit readiness, verifiers can perform a second-level check of area access reviews.
- Verifying a role access review
  To further ensure security compliance or audit readiness, verifiers can perform a second-level check of role access reviews.
- Printing or saving an access review summary
  To share access review information with an auditor or other members of your organization, you can generate access review summaries for completed access reviews.
- About access requests report
  In Genetec ClearID™, an access requests report is a list of access requests for a specific site. The report includes information about the access request date, area requested, status, requested by, requested for, and period of access.
- Checking the status of access requests
  Area owners and Site owners can check the status of access requests at the site level for areas associated with a specific site. Using the Access request report, you can ensure that the organization is security-compliant, audit-ready, and on-time.
- About site activity report
  In Genetec ClearID™, a site activity report is an audit trail of activities or events for a specific site. Each entry includes a timestamp, the type of activity performed, the user who initiated the action, and additional details such as the reason for the change.
- Viewing a site activity report
  Site owners can view a site activity report to review an audit trail of activities or events for a specific site.
- About site and area owners report
  In Genetec ClearID™, a site and area owners report is a list that provides a global view of the following identities and their permissions: site owner, area manager, area owner, and watchlist manager. The report includes site, area, identity, identity permission, delegated from, identity status, and web portal access information.
- Viewing a site and area owners report
  To get a global view of all identities and their permissions, Account administrators and Site owners can view the site and area owners report.
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Glossary

Scheduling role access reviews

2026-02-12

To ensure security compliance and audit readiness, Role owners can set up role access reviews to occur at scheduled intervals. You can also start a role access review manually if required.

Before you begin

Make sure that the roles to be reviewed have already been defined.

Procedure

From the homepage, click Organization > Access reviews .
Click Schedule access review.
In the Select review type dialog, select Role access review.
In the Role access review configuration dialog, enter a name for your role access review.
Search for or select the roles to include.
(Optional) Select Enable review verification to add a second-level review to the access review, and enter the names of your verifiers.
You can add up to 20 verifiers in the Verifiers field. Only one verifier from the list is required to complete verification for the access review.
Select the Schedule reviews frequency that you require.
You can manually start an access review by selecting the Now schedule. Typically, manual access reviews are used to test reviews before they are scheduled to check that all participants are properly set, or to force a review after an incident.
The options that are displayed vary depending on the selected frequency.
Select when to trigger role access reviews:

Yearly

Select a day and one or more months.

Monthly

Select a day.

Weekly

Select one or more weekdays.
Select the review time.
All scheduled review times use the time zone of the site.
(Optional) In the Notes field, add more details as needed.
A review for the all active contractors role, scheduled to occur Yearly at quarterly intervals on the first day of the month at 08:00. The review requires verification.
Figure 1. All active contractors (quarterly access review)

Note:
Access reviews scheduled for Now do not appear on the Scheduled Access reviews page. Instead, they are immediately displayed in the My tasks view of the relevant reviewers.
Click Create.
(Optional) Click a role access review in the list to see the schedule details.
To display all access reviews, you can click Go to access reviews report.

After you finish