Kleverware IAG

Short Summary

Digital identity is a business-enabling technology but remains a primary attack vector, making robust Identity & Access Management (IAM) essential for both operations and security. Many organizations still lack IAM capabilities that reliably cover efficient access granting and revocation, regulatory compliance, and cyber-risk mitigation. Weak IAM creates tangible business damage: productivity loss from password resets and incorrect entitlements, leakage of employee and customer PII, exposure of trade secrets, revenue loss from fraud and reputational harm, and even becoming an unintended attack conduit within supply chains.

IAM has evolved from primarily preventing unauthorized access to also detecting and, in its latest iteration, responding to threats through analytics and intelligence. Within IAM, three key capability areas stand out: Identity Administration (lifecycle, repositories, entitlements, self-service, and provisioning connectors), Access Management (authentication, authorization, SSO, federation, standards like SAML/OAuth/OIDC, plus growing emphasis on API security and social identities), and Access Governance/Analytics/Intelligence (often missing in IDaaS portfolios, sometimes kept on-prem for control, but increasingly considered for cloud to speed integration and time-to-value).

Access Governance is highlighted as especially critical for regulatory compliance and can be deployed either as part of full IGA suites or as focused solutions for faster results. Kleverware IAG is positioned as a targeted Access Governance product (Paris-based, founded 2005) designed for rapid deployment across heterogeneous environments, enforcing least privilege and segregation of duties (SoD) without providing Identity Provisioning. It consolidates and correlates entitlement data (including complex systems like mainframes), detects entitlement “mutations,” supports cross-system SoD controls, enables risk- and change-focused recertifications, and provides out-of-the-box compliance reporting. Its lean, agentless data collection and flexible model reduce integration burden and access-review fatigue, while remediation is handled via integrations (e.g., ServiceNow or existing provisioning tools). Strengths center on speed, correlation, and cross-system governance; challenges include small-vendor scale, early-stage SoD matrix management, and lack of access-request functionality (on the roadmap).

Interesting Facts

• Digital identity is a primary vector through which businesses are attacked.
• IAM capability needs include efficient access granting and revocation, regulatory compliance fulfillment, and cyber-risk mitigation.
• IAM risks include productivity loss from password resets and incorrect entitlements.
• Poor IAM can lead to loss of employee and customer PII.
• Weak IAM can cause loss of trade secrets and other valuable business information.
• IAM failures can reduce revenue through reputation damage and fraud.
• Organizations can become a vector of attack to other supply-chain members.
• IAM evolution described includes stages that add prevention, then detection, then response capabilities.
• Kleverware is a French software vendor based in Paris and started in 2005.
• Kleverware IAG does not provide Identity Provisioning.

Notable Quotes

• “Digital identity is a critical business-enabling technology for every business.”
• “Digital identity is also a primary vector through which businesses are attacked.”
• “The risks of not having well-maintained and secure IAM solutions within organizations are great…”
• “A further generation of IAM not only tried to prevent unauthorized access to a resource, but it also added the capability to detect it.”
• “In this latest iteration, IAM adds to its ability to prevent and detect by also providing the ability to respond to the security threats.”
• “Access Governance is essential to meet regulatory compliance requirements.”
• “Kleverware IAG focuses on enabling customers to enforce the least privilege principle and SoD controls across a heterogenous IT landscape…”
• “Given that too frequent, too big, and too technical access reviews are a source of frustration and complaints amongst business users, the Kleverware approach helps in making access reviews work.”
• “Kleverware differs from most of the other solutions in the market in various areas…”
• “We recommend a careful evaluation of such standalone Access Governance approaches, such as Kleverware IAG, in scenarios where no comprehensive IGA tool is already in place…”