How a Fortune 500 Firm Eliminated SoD Violations
A publicly traded Fortune 500 technical professional services enterprise was carrying recurring Segregation of Duties violations and audit findings into every cycle. Compunnel built an end-to-end IAM program — least-privilege RBAC, lifecycle automation, and centralized governance — that removed the violations at the source and made compliance a byproduct of daily operations.
Manual identity processes producing the same audit findings, cycle after cycle.
Across multiple business units, identity operated as a collection of ad-hoc processes rather than a program. Each unit handled provisioning, role changes, and reviews differently — and every audit surfaced the same Segregation of Duties violations the prior audit had flagged. The root cause was structural, not procedural.
- IAM processes fragmented and manual — access decisions inconsistent across business units.
- Provisioning workflows lagging behind organizational change, slowing daily operations.
- Segregation of Duties (SoD) violations surfacing in every audit cycle.
- No standardized Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across the enterprise.
- Automated controls absent — exceptions handled reactively, not by design.
- Compliance exposure and operational drag accumulating in parallel.
An automated governance program that closes audit findings at the source.
We did not patch the symptoms. We rebuilt the operating model so the violations had nowhere to form.
Replaced ad-hoc identity processes with a single program spanning the enterprise — one operating model, one governance framework, one auditable system of record.
Standardized role-based access across all units. Entitlements aligned to job function rather than historical artifact, with continuous review baked into the program.
Onboarding, role changes, and offboarding now run as automated workflows — closing the lag between an organizational event and the access change it should trigger.
Segregation-of-Duties policies enforced in real time, not in retrospect. Every entitlement decision flows through a centralized governance layer that produces audit evidence as a byproduct.
What changed for the client.
New hires productive on day one with the right access — no spreadsheets, no manual tickets, no exceptions.
Segregation-of-Duties conflicts removed at the source. Audit cycles run without the access-control findings that defined every prior review.
Access ownership, entitlements, and review status visible at any moment — evidence is always current, never assembled under pressure.
What the program was built on.
Carrying the same audit findings year after year?
Our IAM advisors will assess your current access governance, identify the structural gaps that keep producing the same violations, and propose a program built to close them at the source.
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