Progressive organizations are adopting a new process for how access is requested, approved, fulfilled, validated and remediated. This new approach to access management can abstract the complexity that IT deals with and simplify the process, enabling the business to be more autonomous and more successful. A business driven approach bridges the access language gap between how business stakeholders want access described and the technical language IT uses for fulfilling access. This new approach is far more scalable, and integrates into existing service and identity management infrastructures to provide end-to-end automation.

This approach ultimately results in a drastic reduction in IT related cost and complexity. Under an automated model, rules can be checked in real time at the point of request or change, removing the traditional IT operations and security bottleneck. The net result is simplified and streamlined processes, and greater operational efficiency. In effect, this is an opportunity for IT to allow the business to operate in a more agile, less constrained fashion.