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Checks that offboarded employees no longer have active ServiceNow access.

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About

DSALTA matches each user with active ServiceNow access to your People directory by email. If a matched person is offboarded (terminated or in offboarding) but still has active access, the check flags it as a serious issue. This check is platform-internal — it runs on synced ServiceNow user data and your People records, and re-evaluates on every sync.

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Why This Matters

Offboarded employees must not retain access to the ITSM platform. When someone leaves and their access is not revoked, their credentials become an unmonitored door into your systems — a common cause of data theft and accidental damage. Timely access removal on termination is explicitly required by SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.

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How to Fix

Before you begin
  • Identify offboarded employees by cross-referencing your HRMS (or the DSALTA People module) with active ServiceNow accounts.
  • Ensure you have access to deactivate users in ServiceNow.
Remove access for offboarded users
  1. In ServiceNow, go to User Administration → Users and deactivate users who have been offboarded.
  2. In DSALTA, go to People and confirm offboarded employees are marked terminated.
  3. To automate this going forward, connect your HRMS to DSALTA so that an “Offboarded” status automatically flags any lingering access.
Once offboarded employees no longer have active ServiceNow access, DSALTA retrieves the change on the next sync and sets the check status to Passing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This check runs automatically every 24 hours while the ServiceNow integration is connected. You can also trigger a manual sync from Integrations in the sidebar.
A failing check appears in your Data Library → Tests dashboard. Work through the steps above; once the underlying configuration is fixed, the status updates automatically on the next sync.
Yes. If it does not apply to your environment, mark it as Not Applicable with a justification. The exclusion is documented for auditors.
No. DSALTA uses read-only API access and never modifies, creates, or deletes resources. All remediation is performed by your team directly in ServiceNow.