User lifecycle management and secure data-sharing practices
IAM is inextricably tied to user lifecycle management. Effective user lifecycle management is critical for organizations to provide secure access to their resources and data integrity. This section goes into the best practices for managing users’ lifecycles inside an IAM framework.
User lifecycle management includes a variety of tasks, such as user provisioning, authentication, authorization, and access revocation. It all starts with the onboarding process, which grants new users access to the organization’s systems and resources. Organizations should focus on creating efficient and automated user provisioning procedures at this level. Organizations may expedite the onboarding process, decrease administrative costs, and reduce the risk of errors or delays in issuing access credentials to new workers by automating user provisioning.
As users become part of the organization, effective identity verification...