Identity Lifecycle Management
Identity Lifecycle Management covers the entire journey of an identity from creation through active use to deprovisioning — managing provisioning, updates, access changes, and removal as people join, change roles, and leave the organization.
# WHAT TEAMS RUN INTO
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Lifecycle processes break down at transitions. A promotion triggers access provisioning in one system and deprovisioning in another, leaving people over-privileged or locked out.
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Manual steps create bottlenecks and errors. HR submits a ticket, operations team processes it, applications provision separately, and visibility is lost between handoffs.
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Deprovisioning lags persistently. Someone leaves, their identity is deleted from some systems but forgotten in others. Ghost accounts accumulate and become dormant vectors.
# WHY IT MATTERS
A managed lifecycle is the difference between access control that works and access control that drifts into chaos. Every identity decision is a security decision, and those decisions must stay synchronized as people move and roles change. When lifecycle management breaks, access decisions become stale before they're even enforced.