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Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solution and Integration
IDENT1TY designs, integrates, and operates your identity and access management (IAM) architecture: unified governance of human, machine, and AI agent identities, with contextual access and a full audit trail. As a vendor neutral integrator, we deploy the right IAM platform inside your environment, on time and with no blind spots.
What is Identity and Access Management?
Identity and access management (IAM) is the framework of policies, processes, and technologies that ensures the right identities have the right access to the right resources, at the right time, and for the right reasons. It is the overarching discipline that manages every identity in an organization, human, machine, and increasingly AI agent, from creation to removal.
IAM rests on three core functions: identification (establishing who or what an identity is), authentication (proving that identity, through passwords, MFA, or passwordless methods), and authorization (granting or denying access based on roles and policies). Around these sit the broader capabilities of provisioning, single sign-on (SSO), lifecycle management, and governance.
IAM is the umbrella category that contains more specialized disciplines. Identity governance and administration (IGA) handles access reviews and certification, and privileged access management (PAM) secures the most sensitive accounts. A modern IAM program unifies all of these so that human users, service accounts, APIs, and AI agents are governed under one consistent, audited model rather than in disconnected silos.
IAM, IGA, and PAM: how they fit together
IAM is often confused with its own sub-disciplines. The clearest way to understand it is as the parent category.
IAM (identity and access management) is the whole framework: it decides who can sign in, with what credential, to which resource, across the entire identity population.
IGA (identity governance and administration) is the governance layer inside IAM. It answers whether the access an identity already holds is still appropriate: who reviewed it, when it expires, and how it is deprovisioned.
PAM (privileged access management) is the layer inside IAM that secures the most powerful accounts, administrators, root, and service accounts, with vaulting, session recording, and just-in-time access.
In short: IAM governs all access, IGA governs whether that access stays appropriate, and PAM protects the privileged few. A mature identity program deploys all three as one connected architecture, which is exactly where integration expertise matters most.
Why choose an IAM integrator over a single vendor
Most IAM vendors sell you a platform. But IAM environments are more exposed than teams think, not because the software is weak, but because access rights go uncontrolled, projects stall halfway, and undersized teams cannot operate the tooling they bought.
As a vendor neutral integrator, IDENT1TY delivers the part that determines success. We unify human, machine, and AI agent identities into one audited governance model, integrate the right platform across your directories and applications, and operate it so access stays controlled and adaptive over time.
That means you get:
- A single repository for all identities, employees, contractors, AI agents, and applications, with no invisible drift.
- Contextual, adaptive access that adjusts to risk, device, and business context, without friction for legitimate users.
- A full, exploitable audit trail across Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, and cloud, so security and compliance teams save hours on every investigation.
A pure vendor optimizes for its license. An integrator optimizes for access you control and can prove, from day one.
Why most IAM environments are more exposed than you think?
Uncontrolled access rights
Exposure to cyber threats, non-compliance NIS2/ISO27001
Abandoned projects halfway
Increased costs, results never achieved
Undersized teams
Delays, publisher dependence, operational risks
A centralised, audited access management with no blind spots
Traditional IAM manages users in silos. IDENT1TY unifies human, machine and application identities in consistent, real-time audited governance.
Unified human + machine view
A single repository for all identities: employees, contractors, AI agents, applications. No more invisible drift.
Contextual and adaptive access
Rights automatically adjust based on risk profile, device and business context, without friction for legitimate users.
Full and exploitable audit trail
Every action is logged, correlated and exportable. Security and compliance teams save hours on every investigation.
Seamless integration into your IT landscape
Native connectors with Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace. Deployed in weeks, not months.
What we do today
We help organizations identify, classify and govern AI agents as fully fledged digital identities in their own right.
Mapping · Governance · IAM · IGA- Mapping of the AI agents used across the organization, including official, experimental and undeclared agents
- Definition of a governance model specifying the owner, scope, risk level and purpose of each agent
- Implementation of rules for the creation, validation, modification and decommissioning of identities associated with AI agents
- Alignment of AI agent governance with existing IAM, IGA, PAM, cloud security and machine identity policies
We secure the access granted to AI agents in order to limit excessive privileges and the risk of unauthorized actions.
Least privilege · Permissions · Zero Trust- Definition of access models based on the principle of least privilege, context, agent role and the criticality of actions
- Implementation of granular permissions across applications, APIs, data, internal tools and cloud environments
- Framing of sensitive actions through human approval, just-in-time access and conditional rules
- Reduction of the risk of privilege escalation, lateral movement or indirect access through agent chains
We protect the secrets used by AI agents to prevent leaks and invisible dependencies on credentials.
API Keys · OAuth · Rotation · Vaulting- Secure vaulting of API keys, OAuth tokens, certificates, service accounts and secrets used by AI agents
- Implementation of rotation, expiration, revocation and scope-limitation policies for credentials
- Removal of secrets exposed in prompts, memories, logs, configuration files or code repositories
- Strict separation of credentials by agent, environment, application, risk level and business use
We enable organizations to know exactly what an AI agent has done, with which privileges and on which data.
Logging · SIEM · Audit · Accountability- Comprehensive logging of the actions performed by AI agents: access, requests, API calls, changes, decisions and executions
- Correlation of AI events with existing SIEM, SOC, ITSM, PAM, IAM and monitoring platforms
- Implementation of detective controls for abnormal behavior, destructive actions or unauthorized access
- Production of audit evidence that traces accountability across the user, the agent, the tool and the action performed
We help our clients secure the chains of autonomous actions executed by AI agents.
Human-in-the-loop · Guardrails · Agentic AI- Analysis of agentic workflows to identify decision points, sensitive actions and critical dependencies
- Implementation of guardrails for high-impact actions: deletion, configuration changes, access to production
- Control of the tools accessible to AI agents in order to limit unnecessary or dangerous capabilities
- Definition of human-in-the-loop scenarios to enforce human validation before critical operations
We support organizations in establishing a measurable control framework to secure the use of AI agents.
NIST AI RMF · EU AI Act · Audit · Risk- Assessment of the risks associated with AI agents according to use cases, the data handled, the systems accessed and the level of autonomy
- Definition of internal policies governing the use, access, responsibilities and operational limits of AI agents
- Implementation of compliance dashboards covering agents, their privileges, their actions, their exceptions and their incidents
- Alignment of controls with AI security and risk-management frameworks, notably NIST AI RMF-style approaches
Our numbers talk for us
28
years of experience
+100
Active Certifications
76
Projects deployed in 2025
17
Countries covered
+40
IAM/PAM/IGA certified experts
Use cases
AI agent supporting the identity service desk
Automated handling of level-1 access requests under human supervision, with compliance guardrails.
The identity service desk was handling a high volume of repetitive requests, leaving the IAM teams little time for higher-value work.
The security leadership wanted to trial an AI agent capable of absorbing level-1 requests, without degrading compliance or replacing human oversight on sensitive decisions.
Another use case, another challenge.
AI agent supporting access review decisions
Contextual recommendations and risk scoring to turn IGA campaigns into qualitative reviews.
Access review campaigns suffered from mass, undifferentiated rubber-stamping. Managers, faced with hundreds of accesses to validate, were approving without any real analysis.
The goal was to bring meaning back to the reviews without adding to the managers' workload, by leveraging available data to focus their attention on genuinely high-risk access.
How Ident1ty works on your project IAM
Identity and Access Management FAQ
Clear answers on what IAM is, how it relates to IGA and PAM, and what a modern identity program covers.
If human, machine, and AI agent identities live in separate silos, these are the questions worth asking now.
What is identity and access management?
What are the main components of IAM?
What is the difference between IAM and IGA?
What is the difference between IAM and PAM?
What is the difference between authentication and authorization?
Does IAM cover machine and AI agent identities?
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