The typical IT organization manages a large and diverse set of user identities ranging from employees to partners to customers. In turn, each of these users requires access to certain resources to be productive. The challenge is in managing users and their substantial number of privileges in a manner which provides users with access as quickly as possible while also taking steps to ensure that access is granted in accordance with security policy. Accomplishing this requires an efficient method for categorizing users and their privileges, controls to facilitate granting access according to security policy and processes to validate or correct inappropriate privilege assignments.

Identity Governance involves various identity-related processes including cleaning up existing user entitlements, building accurate role models and enacting policies and processes which help ensure delivery of appropriate privileges to users. Continue reading to learn more.