IAM for the Hybrid Reality. Efficiently Managing On-Premise IT and the Cloud.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) originated in perimeter-based, on-premises IT environments where identities were stored locally and access controls focused on ensuring users had only the permissions needed. As organizations expanded beyond business-to-employee (B2E) to business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), and emerging business-to-IoT (B2IoT) use cases, federation and single sign-on (SSO) extended authentication and access across systems and even across organizations. Cloud adoption (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), driven by elasticity, scalability, flexibility, and cost reduction, introduced new challenges: protecting identities and access in environments that are no longer confined to a single perimeter, and that increasingly include mobile, BYOD, and IoT devices.

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) emerged largely from regulatory pressure (e.g., SOX and related mandates) requiring separation of duties, lifecycle tracking for joiners/movers/leavers, reconciliations, and evidentiary reporting. Access Governance (AG) extends beyond classic IAM controls by monitoring and validating access against policy, reducing risks such as dormant accounts, excessive entitlements, unmonitored access, and inadequate reporting. A major gap persists because many IAM and cloud IAM offerings provide access controls and audit trails but lack robust governance, while approval processes are often conducted outside IAM tooling, reducing visibility into why risky access was granted.

The “hybrid IT” reality—spanning on-premises and cloud—requires consistent governance, unified visibility, standardized APIs, stronger entitlement insight for cloud services, and analytics-driven risk reduction. Emerging capabilities include CASB for cloud control points, plus analytics and intelligence to identify patterns, outliers, and support predictive, automated remediation. Saviynt positions its platform as a unified, analytics-driven IGA approach for hybrid environments, covering governance across infrastructure, data, applications, and external identities, with integrations into major IDaaS, cloud directories, business apps, SIEM/analytics, and collaboration platforms.

• IAM capabilities commonly include account management, authentication, authorization, and auditing.
• Cloud IAM offerings generally mirror on-premises IAM capabilities while adding APIs, automation support, and more contextual/adaptive access controls.
• SSO is frequently a baseline capability in cloud IAM offerings rather than an add-on component.
• IGA was initially driven by regulations such as SOX and other mandates including ITGC, HIPAA, HITECH, FedRAMP, PCI, and FFIEC.
• Access Governance targets risks such as unused accounts, excessive permissions, unmonitored access, and inadequate reporting that reduces visibility of activity.
• Most organizations run IT data, applications, and services across both on-premises and cloud environments, sustaining a hybrid model.
• CASB solutions can be deployed as an on-premises proxy gateway, via a host-based agent, or through an API cloud service.
• Saviynt was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with offices in the US, UK, and India.
• Saviynt integrates with platforms including Microsoft, Ping, Okta, AWS IAM, Azure AD, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Peoplesoft, Splunk, Office 365, Box, and Dropbox.
• Saviynt provides governance modules spanning infrastructure access governance, data access governance, application access governance, and external access governance.

• “The hybrid IT environment is the new reality that is here to stay for the foreseeable future”
• “Next generation access governance mitigates risk by monitoring and collecting user information. By using data analytics, it can give critical insight into user access and behavior.”
• “Saviynt provides Access Governance and Intelligence supporting today’s hybrid reality”
• “Identity is at the core of any information security system and Identity and Access Management (IAM) gives the capabilities to manage these identities, and their access privileges, ensuring that they only have access to rights to resources for the right reasons.”
• “Access Governance not only requires a solid foundation built upon strong strategic governance concepts, but it also requires powerful tools that can give in-depth insights into user activity to reduce risk, as well as flexible deployment schemes whether it's on-premises, the cloud or a hybrid of both.”
• “The hybrid reality is upon us. IT organizations, not already in the midst of leveraging cloud services, need to plan and prepare.”
• “Creating a consistent IGA framework across all these applications is cumbersome enough for provisioning, but even harder for Access Governance.”
• “In the simplest terms, access governance manages who has access to what data, applications, and services.”
• “Saviynt is highly focused on Access Governance and Intelligence as a service, while also providing many integration points into applications on premises and the cloud via APIs.”
• “The management of user identity, access, and its governance must evolve into a service that can address this new hybrid IT reality.”