Step-by-Step Guide: How to Elevate Your Identity Lifecycle

All types of organizations struggle to keep up with the increasing pace of change in today’s business environment, especially as remote workforces become more prevalent. At the same time, employee, partner, and customer expectations for frictionless—but still secure— experiences are soaring. Identity and access management platforms play a pivotal role in helping organizations address these demands by getting their end-to-end user lifecycle under control. With powerful automation, you can move from manual employee onboarding and offboarding IT tasks towards a modern approach.

In particular, the Okta Identity Cloud enables many forward-looking IT teams to streamline tedious provisioning, entitlement configuration, and deprovisioning processes. Many of our customers deploy Okta Lifecycle Management (LCM) to stay on top of identity changes via pre-integrated provisioning for 200+ apps, a universal directory with lifecycle awareness, and prescriptive lifecycle orchestration.

In this whitepaper, we’ll provide a practical framework of best practices, recommendations, and goals for four common stages of lifecycle management maturity.