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SOD Analysis

Automated segregation of duty conflict detection, severity scoring, and structured resolution workflows. Catch violations before they reach production.

The Risk

Conflicts discovered in audit cost 10x more to resolve.

A typical enterprise SOD rulebook contains 50 to 100 rules across 10 or more control domains. Manual processes frequently miss conflicts that span multiple role assignments, particularly when different teams are responsible for different business units.

Conflicts discovered during audit, rather than during migration, carry regulatory exposure and are significantly more expensive to remediate. The access structures are already in production, users are trained, and unwinding decisions requires re-engagement with every stakeholder.

SOD at a glance

Rules evaluatedEvery rule, every user
Conflict typesBetween-role and within-role
Severity levelsCritical, high, medium, low
Resolution pathsRemove, substitute, risk-accept
EscalationAuto-route to security design team
How It Works

Embedded in the workflow, not bolted on

SOD analysis in Provisum runs automatically after every mapping change. Conflicts surface in context, alongside the mapping decisions that caused them, so mappers can resolve issues before they reach the approval stage.

01

Rulebook import

Upload your organization’s SOD rulebook with rules spanning any number of control domains. Provisum validates rule definitions and maps them to your source and target permission structures.

02

Automated analysis

After each mapping, Provisum evaluates every user’s combined access against the full rulebook. Each conflict includes the specific permissions that triggered it and the rule that was violated.

03

Conflict classification

Conflicts are classified by severity (critical, high, medium, low) and categorized as between-role (resolvable by the mapping team) or within-role (requiring security design changes).

04

Structured resolution

Mappers can remove a conflicting role, substitute an alternative, or request risk acceptance with a documented business justification. Within-role conflicts are routed to the security design team with structured change requests.

05

Heatmap visualization

Department-by-severity heatmaps provide an at-a-glance view of where conflicts concentrate, helping teams prioritize remediation effort and track resolution progress across the engagement.

Why It Matters

Pre-migration SOD vs. post-migration audit

With Provisum
Conflicts detected during mapping, before approval
Resolution options presented in context
Risk acceptance requires documented justification
Critical-severity conflicts cannot be risk-accepted
Full audit trail of every resolution decision
Security design team receives structured change requests
Without
Conflicts surface months later during audit
Access structures already in production
Unwinding requires re-engaging every stakeholder
Documentation is fragmented across spreadsheets
Regulatory exposure from undocumented risk acceptance
Remediation cost is an order of magnitude higher

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