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Streamline Access Certifications with Automated User Access Reviews

User access reviews are crucial for security and compliance, yet many organizations struggle with manual, fragmented processes. BalkanID provides a modern platform to automate and simplify access reviews across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises systems.

The Challenge

  • Manual, fragmented reviews. Teams juggle spreadsheets, ticketing tools and ad-hoc methods to certify access. This is time-consuming and error-prone, often leading to missed reviews or inconsistent decisions..
  • Data collection overhead. Pulling employee and entitlement data from dozens of HRIS, cloud services, and on-prem systems can take weeks, diverting IT security resources from higher-value work.
  • Lack of review context. Without contextual insights (peer access, privileged accounts, or risk indicators), reviewers must make decisions in the dark. This causes review fatigue, rubber-stamping of approvals, or over-provisioning.
  • Audit & compliance gaps. Ad-hoc reviews leave no clear audit trail. During audits teams scramble to reconstruct who approved what and why, risking compliance failures.

How BalkanID Solves It

BalkanID centralizes all user access data and delivers an intelligent review workflow. It automates campaign management, scheduling recurring or ad-hoc access certification campaigns across users, roles, groups and applications. The platform contextualizes reviews with analytics – surfacing peer/privileged access and risk signals directly in the review interface to guide decision-making. BalkanID also ingests identity data automatically from HR systems and cloud directories, eliminating manual data collection. Every review action is logged and reportable for full audit-readiness. In practice, risk managers have gone from weeks-long certification projects to launching campaigns in minutes, enabling continuous compliance.

Key Capabilities

  • Campaign-Based Certification: Launch and manage review campaigns by application, system or user group, automatically assigning reviewers and due dates. (Multilevel Reviewers)
  • Automated Data Ingestion: Continuously pull employee and entitlement data from HRIS, identity providers (IdPs) and cloud applications (200+ integrations supported)) without manual effort. (Disconnected Apps, Manual CSV/Media upload for Custom Apps)
  • Contextual Reviewer Workflows: Embed risk and context (peer access, SoD flags, privileged accounts) into the reviewer interface to highlight high-risk entitlements and reduce errors. (Access Change Status,Priority Inbox, Collaborative Review)
  • Audit-Ready Reporting: Generate detailed, exportable reports of review results, decisions and evidence to satisfy auditors at any time.
  • Flexible Deployment: Use BalkanID via web, Slack/Teams or APIs. Deploy as a standalone IGA solution or augment existing IAM/IAG platforms (e.g. SailPoint, Okta) without disruption.

Business Outcomes

  • Accelerated Compliance: Ensure that access reviews are completed on schedule with minimal manual effort, greatly reducing audit risk. Teams have cut certification cycles from weeks to just minutes.
  • Risk Reduction: Rapidly surface and remediate over-entitlement, orphan accounts and SoD conflicts flagged during reviews, tightening security.
  • Efficiency Gains: Free IT and security staff from manual drudgery. Automated workflows and data collection save FTEs and let teams focus on high-value work.
  • Audit Confidence: Instantly produce verifiable audit evidence. Comprehensive logs and reports mean you’re always prepared for audits and compliance checks.
  • Stakeholder Satisfaction: A smoother review process empowers managers with clear insights, reducing fatigue and accelerating decision-making.

Simplify Onboarding and Offboarding with End-to-End Identity Lifecycle Management

HR and IT teams often lack seamless processes for bringing employees on and off the network. BalkanID automates the entire joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle to ensure users get the right access at the right time.

The Challenge

  • Slow, manual provisioning. Onboarding new hires or transferring employees often requires IT to grant access manually across multiple systems. This creates days or weeks of waiting and frustration.
  • Misprovisioning risk. New employees frequently aren’t sure what permissions they need. Confusing access request forms lead to errors and either access delays or over-privileged accounts.
  • Approval bottlenecks. Access requests via email or ticketing drag on due to manual follow-up. Approvers who lack context (no view of peer or privileged access) tend to rubber-stamp requests to stay out of the way.
  • Fragmented notifications. Stakeholders are pinged manually and may miss requests. Delays in notifying the right managers or teams cause stalled deployments or security gaps.
  • Orphaned accounts. When employees leave or change roles, delayed deprovisioning leads to lingering accounts and privilege creep. Without full audit trails, it’s hard to prove compliance or find residual access.

How BalkanID Solves It

BalkanID provides a self-service access portal coupled with intelligent automation to handle joiners, movers, and leavers seamlessly. New hires can request needed apps/groups via an intuitive web or Slack interface, with forms auto-populated based on role and past access to eliminate guesswork. Role mining insights guide these requests so employees only see relevant entitlements. Approvals include contextual peer and privileged access data to prevent blind rubber-stamping. Once approved, BalkanID automatically provisions access across HRIS, cloud services and on-prem applications – and just as importantly, automates deprovisioning when users exit or change roles. All activities (requests, approvals, provisioning actions) are logged in a full audit trail, ensuring visibility and accountability throughout the user lifecycle.

Key Capabilities

  • Self-Service Access Requests: Users request apps, groups or resources through a simple portal (web or Slack), eliminating ticket backlogs.
  • Multi-Channel Approvals: Route approvals via email, Slack, or integrated ITSM tools (60+ ticket systems) so decisions happen fast and transparently.
  • Context-Aware Approvals: Show approvers real-time context (peer access, privileged accounts) to enable informed decisions and avoid excessive grants.
  • Automated Provisioning/Deprovisioning: Instantly provision access in connected systems (IDPs, CSPs, etc.) once approved, and revoke it cleanly on departures or role changes.
  • Full Audit Trail: Maintain searchable records of every request, approval, and change. Be audit-ready with complete evidence of who changed what, when, and why.

Business Outcomes

  • Faster Onboarding: Accelerate new hire productivity by instantly granting the right access. According to BalkanID analysts, automating role assignment “reduces new employee onboarding time and reduces role accumulation” as people move around.
  • Reduced IT Workload: Free IT from manual provisioning tasks. Automated workflows and notifications lower helpdesk tickets and eliminate orphan accounts.
  • Improved Security: Ensure departing employees lose all access immediately. Continuous cleanup of unused permissions limits insider risk.
  • Consistent Compliance: Detailed logs and built-in role checks ensure that every access change is governed and auditable. Organizations can easily demonstrate policy adherence for SOX, GDPR, etc.
  • Better Employee Experience: Empower staff with a clear, fast process for getting the tools they need, while managers feel confident approving access with full context.

Enforce Least Privilege with Just-in-Time Purpose-Based Access Control

Permanent privileges pose a constant security risk. BalkanID’s Just-in-Time Purpose-Based Access Control (JITPBAC) ensures users have access only when and why it’s needed, bringing true least-privilege access to life.

The Challenge

  • Standing permissions are dangerous. Always-on access means employees (or attackers) often have more privileges than necessary for routine tasks. This violates the principle of least privilege and magnifies risk.
  • Manual elevation workflows. Elevating rights on-demand (e.g. VPN, admin privileges) typically involves lengthy ticket approvals and even then isn’t time-bound, leading to forgotten or abused access.
  • Undefined policy enforcement. Without automated controls, organizations struggle to enforce time or purpose constraints. It’s hard to ensure elevated access is revoked as soon as a task is done.
  • Audit and compliance gaps. Demonstrating who had access for a specific purpose and when is practically impossible with static roles, complicating audits.

How BalkanID Solves It

BalkanID flips the model: users start with no access by default and must request it through defined “purposes”. A purpose (e.g. “Server Maintenance” or “Financial Audit”) bundles the exact entitlements needed for that task. When a user needs to perform the task, they submit a request specifying duration and justification. BalkanID automatically provisions the requested access at the approved start time and then automatically revokes it at the scheduled end. Policy constraints (such as business hours, required approvals or simultaneous request limits) are built-in so that access truly adheres to organizational rules. This ensures that no one has excess privileges outside the precise time and context they’re needed.

Key Capabilities

  • Zero-Standing Privileges: By default, users have no privileged access until they explicitly request it for a specific purpose.
  • Purpose Definition: Create fine-grained access bundles (Purposes) tied to business tasks or projects (e.g. “Payroll Update”, “Server Restart”). Each Purpose encapsulates the exact roles/groups needed.
  • Time-Bound Access Windows: Automatically schedule start and end times for granted access. BalkanID provisions entitlements at the window’s opening and revokes them at closing.
  • Automated Provisioning & Revocation: No manual steps – BalkanID pushes the changes to AD, cloud IAM (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) and other systems. This guarantees timely enforcement. Notification and one click approvals via Slack
  • Policy Constraints: Enforce conditions such as restricting access to business hours, requiring secondary approvals, or preventing overlapping requests by the same user.
  • Traceable Workflows: Every elevation request is logged with who approved it, duration, and justification, providing a clear audit trail for compliance.

Business Outcomes

  • Strict Least Privilege: Dramatically reduce the attack surface. Users only gain elevated access when absolutely needed, and only for the approved time.
  • Improved Compliance: Enforce and document business-need justification for all privileged access. Auditors see explicit purpose and time for every elevation.
  • Reduced Abuse Risk: Time-limited grants mean privileges automatically disappear, eliminating “once approved, always on” access sprawl.
  • User Empowerment: Teams can quickly get the access they need without slow ticket processes, yet security teams retain full control.
  • Operational Efficiency: Automating JIT access saves IT time and ensures clean handoffs, preventing forgotten permissions and simplifying reviews.

Transform Your Access Model with Automated Role Mining & RBAC Management

Without clear role definitions, access control becomes chaotic. BalkanID uses data-driven analytics to discover, optimize, and continuously manage role-based access control (RBAC) in your organization.

The Challenge

  • Undefined or out-of-date roles. Many organizations have no formal RBAC model, so users are provisioned individually. This makes onboarding and governance ad-hoc and insecure.
  • Role proliferation and sprawl. Ad-hoc provisioning creates redundant or overlapping roles over time. Employees change jobs, accumulating roles they no longer need, increasing risk and compliance headaches.
  • Limited visibility. It’s difficult to know if your current roles truly represent common access patterns, or if some permissions are floating unassigned.
  • Risky exceptions. Administrators often create one-off access exceptions for urgent tasks, but these can become persistent “rogue” entitlements that aren’t caught by standard processes.

How BalkanID Solves It

BalkanID continuously analyzes both top-down (HR data) and bottom-up (entitlement assignments) to build an accurate RBAC baseline. It automatically identifies clusters of users with similar access and suggests well-defined roles. For every new hire or position change (joiner/mover), BalkanID recommends the right roles to assign, reducing manual guesswork. It also flags outliers and sparse roles – for example, permissions held by very few people or roles that cover redundant entitlements. Before any role change, BalkanID performs impact analysis to ensure no business disruption or policy violations. In short, BalkanID turns raw entitlement data into a clean, optimized role model and keeps it up-to-date as your organization evolves.

Key Capabilities

  • Automated RBAC Discovery: Scan identity and entitlement sources to uncover all existing roles, groups and permissions. Build a holistic map of current access.
  • Role Suggestion Engine: Cluster users by their access patterns and propose new or refined roles that match real-world needs (e.g. “Sales Manager”, “Finance Analyst”).
  • Entitlement Outlier Detection: Identify permissions that don’t fit any role or are held by very few users, highlighting opportunities to tighten controls.
  • Role Sparsity & Sprawl Analysis: Detect redundant or underused roles, and suggest merges or retirements to streamline RBAC.
  • Impact Simulation: Forecast the effect of role changes (such as adding/removing roles or reassigning users) before implementation to avoid unintended access gaps.
  • Continuous Optimization: As HR and system data change, BalkanID automatically updates the role model, preventing entropy.

Business Outcomes

  • Faster Onboarding: Automated role mapping means new hires get all needed entitlements immediately. According to BalkanID’s analytics, new role generation reduces onboarding time and prevents excess role accumulation during moves.
  • Stronger Least Privilege: By eliminating unnecessary roles and orphan permissions, organizations minimize access creep and insider risks.
  • Reduced Administration: Role mining turns a months-long project into a continuous process. IT spends less time troubleshooting access issues and more time on strategic initiatives.
  • Improved Auditability: A clear, data-driven RBAC model simplifies audits and certifications – you can always explain why a user has each permission.
  • Adaptive Access Governance: RBAC that evolves with your business (mergers, restructures, new apps) means lasting efficiency and security improvements.

Proactive Identity Risk Management with Analytics and Governance Playbooks

In today’s environment, knowing who is truly entitled is not enough – organizations must continuously assess and remediate identity risk. BalkanID brings advanced risk analytics and automated governance playbooks to your identity stack.

The Challenge

  • Hidden risks and toxic combinations. Employees often accumulate excess permissions over time, and segregation-of-duty (SoD) conflicts can lurk unnoticed. Finding these issues through spreadsheets or periodic reviews is impractical.
  • Manual remediation. Even when risks are identified, the process to remediate (revoke privileges, review access) is often manual and slow. By the time action is taken, conditions may have changed.
  • Lack of context. Simply flagging an over-permissioned account isn’t enough. Security teams need to understand why it’s risky (which roles, potential conflicts, recent changes) to take appropriate action.
  • Compliance expectations. Modern regulations expect ongoing risk management, not just annual audits. Organizations must demonstrate they proactively monitor identity risk.

How BalkanID Solves It

BalkanID continuously scores and analyzes identity risk across your environment. It uses role mining and policy rules to automatically identify users with excessive permissions or toxic role combinations, and explains the risk context in plain terms. For example, it can pinpoint that a user in Finance also has an admin-level cloud role – a classic SoD violation. Once risks are identified, BalkanID provides governance playbooks akin to SOAR workflows: you can trigger automated responses via APIs (review, revoke, notify) on any connected system. This brings end-to-end risk mitigation. The platform also offers dashboards and reports showing risk trends and remediation status. In summary, BalkanID makes identity risk visible and actionable, turning what was a reactive chore into a proactive process.

Key Capabilities

  • Automated Risk Detection and understanding organizations access landscape: Continuously scan for excessive permissions, inactive accounts, or SOD conflicts across all user roles. See exactly how many roles exist per application, which employees have the most access, and where privileged permissions are concentrated.
  • Birthright Role Analysis: Evaluate whether your automatic role assignments (organization-wide, department-level, job-based) are appropriate or creating security risks
  • Per-Application Breakdown: Detailed analysis for each connected application with visual charts showing access distribution
  • Contextual Insights: Provide granular detail on why an identity is flagged – e.g. which exact permission or conflicting roles are the issue.
  • Identity Risk Scoring: Assign a risk score to each identity (user or group) based on volume of entitlements and severity of conflicts. Prioritize the riskiest accounts first.
  • Governance Playbooks: Create automated remediation workflows. For example, automatically email a manager to review access or revoke a permissions if an approval isn’t obtained in time.
  • Integrated APIs: Connect BalkanID to any IAM or security platform. Use CLI/API to trigger provisioning or deprovisioning actions based on playbook outcomes.
  • Compliance Reporting: Maintain reports of risk findings and remediation actions. Prove to auditors that you continuously monitor and address identity risk.

Business Outcomes

  • Reduced Breach Risk: By identifying and fixing over-entitled accounts and SoD violations proactively, organizations greatly lower the chance of insider threats or compromised credentials.
  • Faster Remediation: Automating the response (via playbooks) cuts the window of exposure from days to minutes. Security teams spend less time on manual analysis and follow-up.
  • Data-Driven Compliance: Ongoing risk metrics and automated documentation simplify audits. Instead of demonstrating compliance after the fact, companies show that they consistently enforce least-privilege policies.
  • Operational Efficiency: Analysts get clear action items rather than raw data dumps. This focus saves time and ensures resources address the highest-impact issues.
  • Continuous Improvement: Insight into identity risk trends allows policy tuning and access model adjustments, leading to stronger security posture over time.

Streamline Access Certifications with Automated User Access Reviews

User access reviews are crucial for security and compliance, yet many organizations struggle with manual, fragmented processes. BalkanID provides a modern platform to automate and simplify access reviews across SaaS, cloud, and on-premises systems.

The Challenge
Manual, fragmented reviews. Teams juggle spreadsheets, ticketing tools and ad-hoc methods to certify access. This is time-consuming and error-prone, often leading to missed reviews or inconsistent decisions..
Data collection overhead. Pulling employee and entitlement data from dozens of HRIS, cloud services, and on-prem systems can take weeks, diverting IT security resources from higher-value work.
Lack of review context. Without contextual insights (peer access, privileged accounts, or risk indicators), reviewers must make decisions in the dark. This causes review fatigue, rubber-stamping of approvals, or over-provisioning.
Audit & compliance gaps. Ad-hoc reviews leave no clear audit trail. During audits teams scramble to reconstruct who approved what and why, risking compliance failures.
How BalkanID Solves It
BalkanID centralizes all user access data and delivers an intelligent review workflow. It automates campaign management, scheduling recurring or ad-hoc access certification campaigns across users, roles, groups and applications. The platform contextualizes reviews with analytics – surfacing peer/privileged access and risk signals directly in the review interface to guide decision-making. BalkanID also ingests identity data automatically from HR systems and cloud directories, eliminating manual data collection. Every review action is logged and reportable for full audit-readiness. In practice, risk managers have gone from weeks-long certification projects to launching campaigns in minutes, enabling continuous compliance.

Key Capabilities

  • Campaign-Based Certification: Launch and manage review campaigns by application, system or user group, automatically assigning reviewers and due dates. Multilevel Reviewers
  • Automated Data Ingestion: Continuously pull employee and entitlement data from HRIS, identity providers (IdPs) and cloud applications (200+ integrations supported)) without manual effort. Disconnected Apps, Manual CSV/Media upload for Custom Apps
  • Contextual Reviewer Workflows: Embed risk and context (peer access, SoD flags, privileged accounts) into the reviewer interface to highlight high-risk entitlements and reduce errors. Access Change Status,Priority Inbox, Collaborative Review
  • Audit-Ready Reporting: Generate detailed, exportable reports of review results, decisions and evidence to satisfy auditors at any time.
  • Flexible Deployment: Use BalkanID via web, Slack/Teams or APIs. Deploy as a standalone IGA solution or augment existing IAM/IAG platforms (e.g. SailPoint, Okta) without disruption.

Business Outcomes

  • Accelerated Compliance: Ensure that access reviews are completed on schedule with minimal manual effort, greatly reducing audit risk. Teams have cut certification cycles from weeks to just minutes.
  • Risk Reduction: Rapidly surface and remediate over-entitlement, orphan accounts and SoD conflicts flagged during reviews, tightening security.
  • Efficiency Gains: Free IT and security staff from manual drudgery. Automated workflows and data collection save FTEs and let teams focus on high-value work.
  • Audit Confidence: Instantly produce verifiable audit evidence. Comprehensive logs and reports mean you’re always prepared for audits and compliance checks.
  • Stakeholder Satisfaction: A smoother review process empowers managers with clear insights, reducing fatigue and accelerating decision-making.