If organizations want to have any chance of protecting their data from unauthorized access in 2025 and beyond, there is no way around Identity Governance & Administration. But conventional IGA solutions are the wrong option for most businesses.

For companies trying to keep their data secure while maintaining a competitive edge, the stakes could not be higher. Faced with an onslaught of identity-based attacks, they need a way to efficiently manage their increasingly complex IT environments while ensuring that only the right people have access to right resources.

Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) offers just that: effective access control and a way to automate essential governance tasks.

• Lifecycle management provides each user with the exact privileges they need for their current role while eliminating the hassle of manual on/offboarding.
• Self-service requests and approvals allow you to delegate access decisions and free up your helpdesk – while always staying in the loop.
• Separation of duties prevents users from holding conflicting privileges, even across different IT systems.
• Access reviews and in-depth reporting tools ensure that user access remains appropriate, even as roles and responsibilities change.

Once they are fully operational, IGA solutions improve your security posture, lower your IT workload and provide the visibility you need to maintain compliance with a wide range of regulations and frameworks.

There is one problem, however: Getting IGA ready takes a lot longer than you expect. Unlike their modern counterparts, conventional IGA solutions are difficult to set up and use – a major roadblock on the path to streamlined governance.

Legacy IGA: What a typical deployment looks like

In order to govern access across different systems, an IGA solution must first be connected to the different apps and platforms that make up your IT environment. This is not as easy as it sounds. Legacy solutions generally ship with plugins that can act as basic connectors.

The real integrations, however, are built from the ground up during the setup phase – a process that involves a lot of planning, meetings and custom code.

In theory, this approach is intended to make Legacy IGA infinitely customizable, allowing the final integrations to be tailored to your exact needs and specifications while modeling any business process, no matter how complex.

But in practice, relying so heavily on custom code means that you have to reinvent the wheel for every single deployment. Countless hours are wasted setting up basic interactions like data mappings or workflows for new accounts, delaying the implementation and driving up costs. It can take years of setup before you see any results.

Scripts and custom code still have their place in IGA integration. In sprawling enterprise environments, custom-built integrations may be the only choice to cover a wide range of divergent and inconsistent processes. But most organizations do not need this level of complexity, nor can they afford to devote their entire IT team to a drawn-out setup phase.

Put simply, Legacy IGA the wrong choice for the majority of businesses, where a lean and efficient solution can deliver faster results. The approach of custom coding every interaction and workflow just has too many disadvantages:

• It takes huge effort to set up basic functionality.
• It produces a lot of rushed, low quality code since teams struggle to stick to project timelines.
• It makes later changes incredibly difficult because of the high degree of customization.
• Learnings from one deployment never benefit the rest of the userbase.

Once you consider the long setup and tech debt created by so many custom integrations, it becomes clear that legacy IGA’s promise of a platform tailored entirely to your specifications simply will not realize. Instead, you are left with a project that runs over time and over budget.

tenfold: No-Code IGA with Faster Time to Value

Now imagine you could achieve comprehensive Identity Governance & Administration in just a few weeks instead of spending months or years on manual integration.

tenfold, our no-code IGA solution, is able to cut down setup times and maintenance workloads thanks to true out-of-the-box integration. With a library of fully developed plugins that ship with all the workflows and interactions you need, connecting new systems is a matter of just a few clicks.

Every step of setup and configuration can be completed through our visual interface alone, drastically reducing the effort needed to deploy and operate our IGA platform. Even so, the option to integrate custom code snippets still exists if orgs need additional flexibility.

This streamlined approach to IGA integration allows tenfold to provide comprehensive governance in a fraction of the time it takes to set up conventional solutions. There are many benefits to no-code, out-of-the-box integration:

• You have lower setup costs and get faster results
• You have to devote fewer team members and internal resources
• You benefit from high-quality plugins developed and maintained by our own team
• You can easily add or tweak plugins down the line
• You enjoy comprehensive Identity Governance & Administration without the hassle

Learn if No-Code IGA is right for you

Don’t waste time on endless setups. No-code IGA offers a faster path to streamlined governance and still covers the same use cases, helping organizations just like yours boost their productivity, security and compliance.

Learn more about tenfold and book a personal demo with our team today.

Sponsored and written by tenfold Software.