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Application Security Design Team

This design team focuses on Workday and its associated systems that manage finance and human resources data.

Key Update

Quarter 2, October – December: Established the design team and charge: to define security strategy and guidelines for Workday and connected systems or integrations. This strategy includes the security model design, organizational structure, and approval workflows for Finance and Human Resources integrations.

Aligned on a hybrid security model balancing centralized and decentralized control.

Confirmed the role of department administrator in approval workflows.

Initiated detailed reviews of Workday security roles, work tags, and constraints.

Began evaluating third-party tools to support Workday security needs.

Next Steps

Quarter 3, January – March: Deliver security foundation overviews and targeted Workday security sessions to deepen shared understanding of security models, roles, and controls.

Collaborate with teams across Cornell to assess alignment and gaps.

Produce comparative recommendations to harmonize approaches while improving deprovisioning and audit workflows.

Determine whether external advisory support is needed to inform and validate the future-state security model for Workday and integrated systems.

Design Team Leads

Richard Turnquist
Manager, Security Business Applications
Weill Cornell Medicine

Amber Markus
Financial Security Access Specialist
Ithaca-supported campuses

CEMI’s Six Vertical Focus Areas or Workstreams

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Achieving a seamless digital environment across Cornell will require coordinated progress on six interdependent initiatives — like building all six legs while simultaneously raising the table.

 

Channels within the Technical Workstream

 

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