The Challenge:
A leading enterprise recently told us —
We’ve nailed employee onboarding and access, but contractors and vendors? That’s a black hole. HR doesn’t see them, IT doesn’t manage their devices, and access revocation is hit or miss. We offboard people manually, but months later we still find logins from personal laptops we didn’t even know existed.
This isn’t rare.
Across industries, the extended workforce — contractors, vendor partners, consultants, and temporary staff — now forms nearly 40% of total access identities in many organizations.
Add to that the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture, where personal laptops and phones access internal systems, and you have a perfect storm: thousands of unmanaged human and device identities operating outside the formal IAM boundary.
The result? Shadow HR meets Shadow IT.
Unlinked accounts, unmanaged devices, and invisible access pathways that evade both IT and compliance oversight.
Why It Matters
- Traditional IAM programs were built around HR as the source of truth — but that assumption no longer holds.
- When HR data doesn’t include vendor and contractor profiles, critical automation steps break:
- Joiner–Mover–Leaver (JML) flows don’t trigger for non-employees.
- Offboarding relies on email reminders or ticketing queues, not system rules.
- Device-level controls (MDM, conditional access) can’t be enforced for personal hardware.
- Cached SSO tokens and OAuth grants remain active long after contracts end.
The fallout extends far beyond IT cleanup:
- Security risk: Former contractors can still access production systems or shared SaaS tools.
- Regulatory exposure: Frameworks like RBI’s Cyber Security Guidelines, IRDAI’s Information Security directives, and global privacy standards all demand timely access revocation — even for external users.
- Audit fatigue: Orphaned accounts trigger recurring non-compliances and remediation cycles.
- In short, the organization appears compliant on paper, but operationally, it’s wide open to identity drift and device-based intrusion.
The BAAR Approach
BAAR bridges the HR–IT–Device gap with unified, automated control across people and machines.
1. Unified Identity Source
BAAR integrates directly with HRMS platforms (Darwinbox, SAP, Workday) and vendor management systems, ensuring every worker type — employee, contractor, vendor team — is recognized as a valid identity source. Each profile carries contract start/end metadata for lifecycle enforcement.
2. Automated Lifecycle Governance
BAAR-IGA automates provisioning and de-provisioning based on contract metadata. When a contract ends or a vendor offboards, BAAR automatically disables associated accounts, roles, and entitlements across applications.
3. Secure Access from Verified Devices
Through BAAR Secure Tunnel, users — even on BYOD — must authenticate through a device posture check before accessing internal systems. Non-compliant or unregistered devices are automatically denied access.
4. Continuous Access Review and Risk Detection
BAAR’s UAR engine continuously analyzes account activity to flag dormant, orphaned, or non-compliant access. Reviews are auto-triggered for identities nearing contract expiry or showing unusual device behavior.
5. Compliance Automation with BAAR-CA
Evidence of every access review, posture check, and revocation is captured by BAAR Compliance Assurance (BAAR-CA), enabling auditors to verify compliance without manual evidence gathering.
Real-World Context
- In BFSI, third-party agents and outsourced IT staff often have deep access to production databases. Manual deactivation of such users after project completion remains a top RBI audit observation.
- In Healthcare, consultants and visiting specialists frequently retain EMR credentials long after their engagement ends, violating patient data protection norms.
- In Manufacturing, field engineers and suppliers use personal devices to access OT dashboards or SCADA portals, creating untracked device identities.
- Across these sectors, the problem isn’t malicious insiders — it’s blind spots.
- Blind spots in how identities are created, managed, and retired when they don’t fit the “employee” model.
- BAAR eliminates those blind spots by turning every human and device into a governed, auditable identity — visible to IT, accountable to compliance.
Key Takeaways
- Shadow HR and unmanaged BYOD are the fastest-growing identity risks in hybrid enterprises.
- Every access identity — human, contractor, or device — must be part of a single lifecycle governance model.
- Compliance isn’t just control documentation; it’s continuous identity hygiene.
- With BAAR, organizations can unify HR, vendor, and device intelligence — achieving zero orphaned accounts, zero stale devices, and continuous compliance.
From invisible access to accountable identity — that’s BAAR.
