[IGA]
Identity Governance and Administration Solution and Integration
IDENT1TY designs, integrates, and operates your identity governance and administration (IGA) architecture: automated access reviews, certification campaigns, provisioning, and segregation of duties, so governance is real and audit ready, not just documented. As a vendor neutral integrator, we deploy the right IGA platform inside your environment.
The certificate lifecycle: from issuance to revocation
Identity governance and administration (IGA) is the discipline that controls who has access to what, why they have it, and when that access should end, across every system in an organization. It combines policy, workflow, and evidence so that access decisions can be requested, approved, reviewed, and audited throughout the identity lifecycle.
IGA is one part of the wider field of identity and access management (IAM). Where access management handles authentication, proving who a user is at the moment of login through SSO or MFA, IGA governs the harder question: should this identity hold this access at all, who approved it, and is it still appropriate today. It is the layer auditors care about most.
A modern IGA program rests on a recognizable set of capabilities: lifecycle automation (joiner, mover, leaver workflows), access certification campaigns, role management, segregation of duties enforcement, and audit ready reporting. The common thread is lifecycle: IGA tracks every access right from the moment it is granted to the moment it is revoked, and keeps the trail documented and justified in between.
IGA vs IAM vs PAM: how they differ
These three acronyms are often confused, but each governs a distinct layer of identity security.
IAM (identity and access management) is the overarching category for managing identities and their access. It controls authentication and authorization at the moment of access: who can sign in, with which credential, to which application.
IGA (identity governance and administration) is the governance layer inside IAM. It controls whether the access an identity holds is still appropriate over time: who reviewed it, who attested to it, when it expires, what triggers recertification, and how it gets deprovisioned.
PAM (privileged access management) secures the most sensitive accounts, the administrator and privileged identities that can change systems, by controlling, monitoring, and recording their access.
The simplest way to remember it: IAM decides who can log in, IGA decides whether they should still have that access, and PAM protects the powerful accounts. Most enterprises need all three. IAM without IGA produces orphaned accounts and standing privilege; IGA without IAM has no live access decisions to govern.
Why choose an IGA integrator over a single vendor
Most IGA vendors sell you a platform. The problem is that IGA fails far more often as an operating model than as a technology: programs collapse through unclear ownership, weak integration, and review fatigue, not because the software was wrong.
As a vendor neutral integrator, IDENT1TY solves the part that actually determines success. We design the governance operating model first, then integrate the right platform into your HRIS, directories, and business applications, and we run the access reviews, role modelling, and SoD rules so governance holds over time.
That means you get:
– An objective operating model built before the tooling, with clear ownership for provisioning, reviews, and offboarding.
– Deep integration across HRIS, Active Directory, cloud, and business applications, so governance covers the full estate.
– Role models built from real usage, not theory, and SoD rules enforced automatically to pass SOX, NIS2, DORA, and sector audits.
– A pure vendor optimizes for its license. An integrator optimizes for audits you pass and access you can actually explain.
Why most IGA projects fail?
Accumulated rights without control
Compliance violations, failed audits, undetected internal risks
Overly manual access reviews
Long and costly processes, human errors, non-scalable
Incomplete application integration
Silos persist, governance remains partial and ineffective
Identity governance without the complexity that makes it unusable
IGA projects often fail through operational overload.
IDENT1TY automates access reviews, certifications and provisioning workflows so governance is real, not just documented.
Automated access reviews
Certification campaigns launched automatically on your cycles (quarterly, annual). Managers validate in 2 clicks, anomalies surface as priorities.
Roles built from real usage
Role modelling through behavioural analysis of your existing users, not theory. Roles your teams understand and adopt.
Instant provisioning and de-provisioning
Onboarding, role change and departure automatically trigger the corresponding rights. Zero delay, zero oversight.
Built-in regulatory compliance
SoD (Segregation of Duties) natively configured with real-time alerts on rights conflicts. SOX, NIS2 and DORA audits made easier.
What we do today
We help organizations build clear, reliable and well-controlled governance of identities and access.
Governance · Entitlements · Compliance- Definition of the governance model for identities, roles, responsibilities and associated processes
- Implementation of management rules to control who accesses what, why and under whose authority
- Rationalization of entitlements to reduce excessive rights, obsolete access and unmanaged accounts
- Alignment of identity governance with business, security, compliance and audit requirements
We support our clients in setting up access review campaigns that are effective, readable and actionable by the business.
Recertification · Campaigns · Remediation- Design and automation of access rights recertification campaigns
- Definition of review scopes by application, population, business role or risk level
- Support for managers, application owners and compliance teams during access validation
- Identification of gaps, unjustified access or rights to be revoked, with tracking of remediation actions
We secure and industrialize the management of identities throughout their lifecycle within the enterprise.
Joiner · Mover · Leaver · Automation- Automation of the Joiner, Mover and Leaver processes to ensure access is granted and revoked at the right time
- Connection of HR, IT and business processes to make the creation, modification and removal of identities reliable
- Definition of access assignment rules based on functions, entities, roles or user profiles
- Reduction of the risks tied to dormant accounts, persistent access and un-revoked rights
We help our clients identify, control and reduce the risks tied to sensitive entitlement conflicts.
SoD · Matrices · Internal control- Analysis of roles and rights to identify conflicts related to the separation of duties
- Definition of SoD matrices tailored to business processes, critical applications and internal control requirements
- Implementation of preventive and detective controls to limit high-risk access combinations
- Production of risk reports and remediation plans actionable by security, audit and business teams
We integrate IGA solutions with HR, IT and application repositories to create coherent, automated governance.
HRIS · Connectors · Provisioning- Connection to HRIS systems to make identity, joiner, leaver and role-change data reliable
- Integration with business applications to govern access to the enterprise's critical systems
- Implementation of connectors, workflows and provisioning rules tailored to client environments
- Synchronization of data across IGA, IAM, PAM platforms, directories, ITSM and internal applications
We give organizations a clear, measurable and auditable view of their identities and access.
Dashboards · Audit · KPIs- Creation of dashboards and compliance reports on identities, access, reviews and risks
- Production of audit evidence actionable by compliance, security, internal control and business teams
- Tracking of key indicators: excessive rights, orphan access, review campaigns, SoD conflicts and remediations
- Alignment of IGA controls with regulatory requirements, internal policies and security standards
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
Access review and recertification program
Industrialization of IGA campaigns and reduction of access debt across 800 applications.
A European banking group whose semi-annual access review campaigns were deemed insufficient by the control functions. Managers were rubber-stamping without analysis, an issue flagged by both internal audit and the ACPR inspection.
The risk department wanted to regain control of the role model, which had become illegible through years of ad-hoc requests.
Another use case, another challenge.
Automation of JML processes for a retail distributor
Day-zero provisioning, removal of orphan accounts and a smoother employee journey.
A national retail chain heavily marked by seasonality and a high turnover rate. The provisioning process relied on manual tickets handled by several teams, with lead times ranging from 3 to 10 days.
Conversely, departures were only partially handled, leading to a large volume of orphan accounts.
Identity Governance and Administration FAQ
Clear answers on what IGA is, how it differs from IAM and PAM, and what a modern governance program covers.
If your access reviews still run on spreadsheets, these are the questions worth asking before your next audit.
What is identity governance and administration?
What is the difference between IGA and IAM?
What is the difference between IGA and PAM?
What is an access certification campaign?
What is segregation of duties (SoD)?
Why do IGA projects fail?
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