Case Study

Office of the Public Service Commission (OPSC)

Office of the Public Service Commission (OPSC)

Overview The OPSC is tasked and empowered to inves- tigate, monitor, and evaluate the organization and administration of the public service. This mandate includes evaluation of achievements, and promoting measures that would ensure effective and efficient performance within the public service. Challenge Regular user access reviews serve to verify and validate that user access to systems and ap- plications is appropriate given their roles and responsibilities within the organization. The OPSC conducted its access reviews in an entirely manual fashion, supported by spreadsheets which were reviewed and cer- tified. Mpho Basitere, Head of IT for OPSC, explains: “The process was cumbersome and time-con suming and by the time the re- view was completed, the situation would have chan

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