When a startup grows from 30 users to 150 within no time, its primary focus is to grow the business and tech teams. But the IT team doesn’t grow that fast, leading to poor user lifecycle management.
It’s very easy and convenient to create users and roles in production but who is going to delete/suspend them? Well, nobody wants to delete an unwanted rule in the production or disable services accounts because you don’t know what it is going to break. We have seen companies carrying tens of user identities who left the company months ago. They are not only bearing the subscription cost for them but also it makes them extremely vulnerable to security threats.
Adopting the right tools at a very initial stage not only helps grow them at a fast pace but also keeps them safe and compliant. Upon calculating the cost, to everyone’s surprise, it is observed that companies who are not spending on the tools at an initial stage assuming they are saving money end up paying way more than those who adopt user lifecycle management tools at a very early stage.