Review an Access Policy as the Policy Owner

You’re probably reading this because you were named the owner of an access policy in Lumos and asked to review it. Your company uses Lumos to grant employees the apps and permissions they need automatically. An access policy defines that access for one group of employees: who is covered, and what they get. As the owner, you decide what your team gets. You can add and remove apps and permissions. Who the policy covers and when it goes live stay with your admin team, so you are proposing changes, not shipping them. The whole review takes about ten minutes.

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1. Open Access Policies in Lumos

Log in with your Single Sign-On (SSO) login or email and open the Access Policies page. You will only see the policies you own.

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2. Check each app and permission

Open your policy. Next to every app and permission, Lumos shows how your team actually uses it: Widely Used, Rarely Used, or Rarely Assigned. Use that to decide:

• Widely Used: keep it. Your team depends on it.
• Rarely Used: remove it. Anyone who still needs it can request it through the AppStore, so removal is low-stakes.
• Rarely Assigned: tighten it or remove it.
• Something missing: add it with Add App. If your team uses an app the policy does not grant, this is the time to fix that.

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3. Make the edits

Add, edit, and remove apps and permissions directly on the draft policy. When you edit an app, you pick from that app’s groups and roles. Two things you cannot change: who the policy covers (the conditions) and when it goes live. If the policy seems aimed at the wrong team, flag it to your admin team instead of working around it.

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4. Share it for a second look

If your process asks for another sign-off, click Share and add the people responsible for the access the policy grants: the owner of a group it grants, an app admin, or a security reviewer. The policy is read-only for them, so their verdict arrives as comments. Answer each comment on the policy and resolve it once the change is made or the question is settled. Resolved threads stay on the policy, so the reasoning is still there at the next review.

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5. Record the approval status

If your policy has an approval field, keep it current: In Review while sign-off is still out, Approved once everyone has signed off. Your admin team tracks the rollout from this field, then publishes the policy.

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6. Review complete

Your admin team reviews your changes, clears any open comments, and publishes. Your identity team thanks you for helping keep access accurate and your company secure.

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FAQ

I clicked Add App and see “No options.” Why? You are missing a small view permission. Ask your admin team to grant it; it is a one-time, org-wide grant on their side. Can I accidentally change who gets access? No. You cannot touch the conditions, so the group of people the policy covers never changes without an admin. Someone shared a policy with me but I cannot edit it. Being shared on a policy is different from owning it. Shared reviewers get view and comment access only; see Review an Access Policy as a Policy Reviewer. Will I be notified when I am assigned a policy or someone comments? Not yet; notifications are planned. Whoever runs the rollout will send you the link.