Practical checklist
Identity and MFA readiness checklist
Map the important access decisions before changing policy. Use this checklist to identify the owners, applications, privileged paths and removal checks that an identity review needs to cover.
The challenge
MFA is one part of the access journey.
An identity review also needs to cover approvals, privileged access, application behavior and account removal. Record what has been observed and what still needs a check.
Work through these checks
- Inventory workforce, service, privileged and emergency identities.
- Identify the applications and authentication paths that matter.
- Record MFA enrollment, recovery and exception rules.
- Separate privileged access from ordinary daily accounts.
- Test a permitted sign-in and an intended denial.
- Approve an emergency-access owner and recovery procedure.
- Review device requirements and incompatible applications before rollout.
- Rehearse removal of access across the agreed applications.
- Assign periodic access and exception review.
- Retain a change/rollback plan and acceptance results.
Questions to bring to discovery
- Who authorizes access changes?
- Which legacy app or device can block rollout?
- What evidence shows removal actually worked?
The intended result
Arrive with a map of the important identity decisions.
Use the checklist to identify systems and owners, then discuss permitted enrollment, emergency access and the removal checks needed for your environment.
Ready to test a representative identity path?
Bring the checklist and application owners to a scoped identity and PKI discussion.