Identity Graph
An Identity Graph is a unified, structured view of all identity relationships — linking users to their accounts, roles, groups, attributes, and systems they can access. It maps the connections that define who someone is across the entire organization.
# WHAT TEAMS RUN INTO
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Building and maintaining a reliable identity graph requires real-time synchronization from dozens of sources. Any source drifts and the entire graph becomes unreliable.
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Query performance degrades as the graph grows. Complex access decisions that require traversing multiple relationship hops become too slow for real-time enforcement.
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Legacy systems expose incomplete relationships. Some systems only know 'user belongs to this group' but not why, when that assignment happened, or who authorized it.
# WHY IT MATTERS
An accurate identity graph is the foundation for smart access control. You cannot make fast, contextual authorization decisions without understanding the complete web of identity relationships. When your identity graph is incomplete or out of sync, access control decisions become guesses instead of knowledge-based decisions.