Policy Attestation Governance

Attestation quality varies enormously and is rarely examined. An attestation to having read a document is weaker than one to having understood it, which is weaker than one paired with an assessment. Frequency matters too: annual attestation to a policy revised three times in the year evidences very little. The governance question is whether the attestation asked corresponds to the assurance claimed.

Because attestation in Centralpoint attaches to a version rather than a document, a revision makes prior attestations identifiable as covering superseded text. Paired with assessment records from the learning system, an organization can distinguish attestation to receipt from demonstrated understanding rather than presenting them as equivalent.