Knowing who has access to what
in your IS thanks to identity lifecycle management, a crucial component
of your IAM strategy

Identity management software
is essential for keeping control
of the lifecycle management of IS users

Managing the lifecycle of identities and authorisations is a project that must be undertaken with an eye on effectiveness, security and return on investment: manual tasks (e.g. paper procedures and email or phone-based processing tasks) are time-consuming and tend to generate human errors, when they could be handled at scale by dedicated software.

However, implementing an identity management project is no mundane task, and several key points merit close attention:

• Work hand-in-hand with human resources on the reference data from the HR IS and the company’s business processes (entry – mobility – exit), and with the IT department to dovetail neatly with existing reference bases: Active Directory, organisational reference bases, business applications, databases and directories, etc.
• Produce a complete mapping of data taken from the HR IS and other application reference bases, and of user lifecycle-related processes, and identify both the level of quality of the data and of control of business processes, and the adjustments to be made.
• Anticipate account provisioning and authorisation review processes and the various constraints that will be factors in processing operations: identify the different actors, the business rules to apply, the connectors to implement, etc.