The challenges

During a recent inventory of the systems and functions that the The Company's IT department supported, a number of challenges were detected. We will now have a look at some of the Identity Management (IdM)-related challenges that were detected.

Provisioning of users

Within The Company, they discovered that it can take up to one week before a new employee or contractor is properly assigned their role and provisioned to the different systems required by them to do their job.

The Company would like for this to not take more than a few hours.

Identity lifecycle procedures

A number of issues were detected in lifecycle management of identities.

Changes in roles took way too long. Access based on old roles continued even after people were ...

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