Customer Requirement:
A large multinational organization with a hybrid IT environment had invested significantly in defining clear role-based access policies across departments and systems. At the outset, users were granted only what they needed—aligning to a principle of least privilege.
But over time, this discipline eroded.
The customer reported that while initial access provisioning was tightly governed, access cleanup rarely happened. Users who changed roles or participated in short-term projects retained entitlements long after they were needed. With no structured deprovisioning or usage monitoring, this led to a quiet but dangerous problem: privilege creep.
“Our users start with the right access, but they keep accumulating more over time. We’re now seeing risky access combinations we can’t justify or trace. It’s a ticking time bomb for audits and security.”
The Risk Exposed
- What began as minor access inefficiencies evolved into a serious security and compliance concern:
- Users held entitlements across multiple systems—many of which conflicted with their current role.
- Temporary project-based access was never revoked.
- IT admins granted broad entitlements to “unblock” requests and forgot to roll them back.
- Some users unknowingly had toxic combinations of access that violated separation of duties (SoD) policies.
- Worse, many of these access paths spanned SaaS, on-prem, and legacy platforms, making them invisible to traditional IGA and provisioning workflows. These “access residues” created audit gaps, increased the blast radius of potential insider threats, and wasted licensed resources.
How BAAR-IGA Solved It:
To remediate the access sprawl, the organization deployed BAAR-IGA as a centralized control point for access intelligence and lifecycle automation. The platform enabled them to:
- Auto-model access based on job roles, ensuring new access was always least-privilege-aligned
- Trigger dynamic access reviews for users during job changes, promotions, or project end dates
- Leverage usage analytics to flag entitlements, applications, and licenses that hadn’t been used in 60–90 days
- Detect toxic access combinations with built-in SoD policies and remediation workflows
- Run certification campaigns focused specifically on dormant or accumulated access
- Enforce continuous access hygiene through policy-driven cleanup and real-time alignment
- BAAR-IGA acted as the missing layer that continuously re-validated and re-aligned access with real user needs—without introducing friction for IT or end users.
Results Delivered
In just the first 90 days of deployment, the organization saw measurable impact:
- 9,400+ stale entitlements removed
- 3,000+ users realigned to correct role-based access
- 180+ toxic access combinations detected and remediated
- 22% reduction in SaaS license waste
- Audit readiness restored with justification trails and access history
- Improved security posture through enforced least privilege at scale
It also enabled smoother transitions from on-prem directories like Active Directory, minimizing disruption.
Conclusion
Privilege creep is often invisible—until it’s not. By the time risky access combinations or audit failures appear, it’s already too late
BAAR-IGA empowers organizations to fight privilege accumulation with precision, automation, and intelligence. With continuous access validation, role enforcement, and policy-driven cleanup, BAAR-IGA helps enterprises transition from reactive cleanups to proactive identity hygiene—ensuring that “just enough access” stays true from Day 1 to Year 10.
