Identity, Governance & Administration
Gain Efficiency & Control Security Concerns
Machine identities now outnumber people and often carry excessive, poorly owned privilege. Govern-IS delivers unified governance across your entire identity ecosystem.
What is Identity Governance
and Administration?
Govern-IS delivers comprehensive Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) by unifying identity administration and identity governance. Identity administration manages user accounts and credentials, while identity governance controls roles, permissions, and access analytics.
Building on traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality, Govern-IS enhances these capabilities with deep technical expertise, a structured delivery framework, and advanced governance experience. This enables organizations to audit user access for compliance and meet regulatory requirements while automating key processes such as access requests, approvals, and provisioning or de-provisioning to improve efficiency and control.
The Value Proposition
Small businesses with a limited number of employees can often manage access manually—granting, removing, and reviewing permissions with relative ease, sometimes using predefined roles or access templates. However, this approach does not scale for large enterprises, or address legal and regulatory compliance, particularly in today’s environment shaped by post-pandemic complexities and distributed workforces.
As a result, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions have become a critical component of modern security strategies. They bring together access governance capabilities—such as entitlement discovery, decision-making, access reviews, and recertification—with user provisioning functions like identity lifecycle management and role administration, enabling organizations to maintain control, visibility, and compliance at scale.
Security
IGA ensures every account across integrated IT systems — human or non-human — is fully accounted for and linked to a traceable identity. This eliminates costs from unused or orphaned accounts while improving visibility. It also enables organizations to quickly disable or isolate accounts in response to suspicious activity, strengthening security and control across the environment.
Efficiency
Automated onboarding across on-premise and cloud systems, driven by authoritative HR data, ensures users receive timely access from day one. This streamlines onboarding, role changes, and offboarding while reducing manual effort. With self-service, users can quickly request access, and automated de-provisioning removes access when roles change or employment ends, maintaining security and continuity.
Compliance
IT systems are aligned with corporate policies and regulatory requirements to keep access rights appropriate and current. This supports compliance with regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO, and CCPA, strengthening identity governance. Fully audited, workflow-driven self-service keeps requests and approvals controlled and traceable, while built-in violation management identifies, remediates, and prevents policy breaches to strengthen compliance and risk management.
Our Partners
Common False Perceptions Around IGA
IGA is complex and takes a long time to implement
Have you calculated the company cost of information loss, identity theft or malicious hacks and ransomware attacks, and how these affect your companies’ bottom line? Modern IGA platforms these days offer dynamic and subscription based licensing options, thus, ensuring the customer will only ever pay for what is utilized.
IGA is too expensive to aquire
Modern IGA tools such as Omada Identity and Sailpoint Identity Platform provide accelerator programs that allow partners to deploy the platform and show real tangible value to the customer within 30 days. Structured frameworks for process implementation, project execution and operational management, make it real quick and easy for partners to take their customers on the IGA journey.
IGA requires existing documented and managed business processes before you can start
Customers no longer have to perform complex up-front role and process designs before they can start their IGA project. Instead, easy to use AI driven role modelling tools and out-of-the-box best practice IGA business processes allows the customer the agility to get going quickly and easily.
IGA is only a need in large organizations with thousands of employees
Identity Governance & Compliance is needed in every business. In smaller companies, IGA processes might be executed manually with limited automation, whilst in larger organizations, automation and preventing human error is critical. Smaller companies might not require the full deployment of an IGA platform into their business, but the implementation of good IGA practice remains a critical component of maintaining a secure environment. Most modern IGA platforms provide scaled down capability licensing models which will allow companies of any size to take full advantage of what they need short and long term.
IGA requires a lot of new internal staff with roles specifically focused on IGA
The implementation of a new IGA platform or service should not require new staff with new responsibilities and roles. Instead, your existing staff responsible for provisioning system access, completing annual access reviews and providing audit reporting will now have the right tools at their disposal to complete their responsibilities much quicker and more accurately.
IGA partners drop a service and leaves the business to run and own it
Unfortunately, this has been the case in the past with quite a few vendors and partners. Fear not, we at Govern-IS have built a complete IGA Compliance Management service. Our managed service will ensure compliance is maintained and enforced within each connected system and is measured against an agreed SLA per system. To find out more please contact us at Govern-IS.
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