See How to Seamlessly Manage Employee Role Changes and Keep Access Secure
Nearly 52% of data breaches are linked to poor access management. Strong identity lifecycle management can help close that gap.
As organizations grow and rely on more digital tools, it becomes very challenging and difficult to manage employee accesses accurate and secure. Each new person who joins, or employee who changes roles or teams, or even leaves the company needs to update their accesses across multiple platforms and tools. However, without a clear and structured process, errors, delays, and security risks can easily be mishandled.
A structured identity lifecycle management approach helps companies maintain both efficiency and control over the HR & IT processes. It ensures that every employee has the right access at the right time while keeping sensitive information protected.
Many organizations are finding it difficult to keep HR, IT, and business systems aligned. When identity updates from the HR system are not reflected quickly in access or directory services, delays and mistakes are introduced. Productivity gets affected and becomes slow, security gaps starts to show which hampers compliance risks and makes audit process even more difficult to handle.
According to industry research, more than half of security incidents are linked back to weak and poor identity or access management practices. This highlights how vital it has become for organizations to have a consistent and clear process for managing identities consistently throughout the employee lifecycle.
In many organizations, HR and IT teams continue to rely on spreadsheets or ticket based systems to update user access. When a new employee joins, multiple accounts must be created. When someone moves to a new role, permissions must be updated. When a person leaves, access must be removed quickly.
Each step requires time and coordination across departments. Manual errors often result in employees waiting for access for days, or in ex employees retaining permissions long after they have left.
These issues increase as the workforce expands, and more tools and platforms are used. Without automation, identity governance and administration can become even more complex and time consuming.
Identity lifecycle automation connects HR and IT systems so that changes in the HR system trigger updates across applications. This ensures that access is granted or revoked based on real roles and events rather than manual requests.
Employee lifecycle management becomes consistent. Onboarding, internal moves, long leaves and exits are all handled through automated workflows. Less friction is created, risks are reduced, and predictability rises.
An example that shows the value of an identity lifecycle solution can be seen with Astec Industries. Astec was handling a global workforce with high turnover. The manual process for managing joiner mover leaver events across Oracle HCM, Active Directory and Entra ID created heavy work and frequent errors.
After Hire2Retire was implemented, several improvements were observed:
Read the full case study here.
This example shows how identity lifecycle management and identity governance and administration can deliver both security and measurable cost and productivity gains.
With Hire2Retire, the employee lifecycle is managed end to end with minimal manual effort. Changes in HRIS systems automatically trigger provisioning, role updates or deactivation in downstream systems. Systems remain in sync so mistakes and delays are cut down. Employee onboarding automation becomes standard practice rather than an exception.
By moving routine identity tasks to automated workflows, HR and IT teams are freed to focus on higher value work. The experience for employees is improved because access becomes reliable and predictable.
Hire2Retire brings workforce identity and access management together in a way that scales. For organizations of different sizes, control can be gained over the full identity journey from hire to retire. Integration capabilities cover many HR systems and directory services and workflows can be configured without heavy custom coding so deployment is faster.
By using Hire2Retire, organizations can have improved security, a smoother employee experience and enforceable governance across various systems.
Identity lifecycle management has moved one step ahead from being optional to being essential part of any organization. Manual processes are no longer sustainable at scale. When identity and access are managed through automation, risk is lowered, compliance becomes easier, costs fall and employee satisfaction increases.
If stronger controls with less friction are sought, solutions such as Hire2Retire should be considered. Connecting HR, IT and security through automation makes it possible for identities to be managed clearly, reliably and efficiently throughout the employee lifecycle.
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