When a critical system issue occurs at 3 AM, organizations may need to grant emergency or privileged access to restore operations quickly. But once the incident is over, an important audit question remains: Who accessed the system, what did they do, and was that access properly authorized?

This practical webinar explores how IT Auditors, GRC, Information Security, and Compliance professionals can audit emergency access, break-glass accounts, privileged IDs, and hidden or excessive administrative privileges.

Participants will learn how to identify risky privileged accounts, review emergency-access procedures, examine access and activity logs, verify approvals, assess monitoring controls, and determine whether emergency access was appropriately used and subsequently revoked.

What You Will Learn

• Identifying emergency and break-glass accounts
• Auditing privileged and administrative access
• Detecting hidden, shared, dormant, or excessive-privilege accounts
• Reviewing emergency access approvals and justifications
• Examining access logs and administrative activity
• Assessing monitoring and alerting controls
• Checking timely revocation of emergency access
• Evaluating segregation of duties and privileged-access controls
• Identifying audit red flags and control weaknesses
• Documenting findings with practical audit scenarios

Who Should Attend?

Ideal for IT Auditors, Information Security professionals, GRC and Compliance teams, Risk professionals, System Administrators, and professionals responsible for privileged access management.

The key question: When the emergency is over, can you prove exactly what the emergency account did?