The modern attack does not break in. It logs in.
Kavuka IAM manages the full identity and access lifecycle — provisioning, change and revocation — with the missing anchor: every account is born tied to a real person verified by our engines, and every third party with access went through the pipeline.
- JML
- automated lifecycle
- Zero
- orphan accounts by design
- Minimum
- enforceable privilege
- Verified
- identity anchored to a real person
Identity and access management in production: JML lifecycle triggered by HR and contract events, accounts anchored to real verification and recertification with owner, deadline and evidence — full trail for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and data-protection law.
Identity became the perimeter — and the account nobody verified is the door left open.
The audit fails your access management
Leftover privileges, ungoverned access to personal data and the client security questionnaire with no answers turn into recurring findings in ISO, SOC and data-protection audits.
Provisioning by ticket, revocation by memory
Onboarding depends on a manual ticket, the ex-employee orphan account stays active for months and recertification becomes a spreadsheet nobody answers.
The breach that logged in
A valid credential raises no alarm: the attacker operates undetected, accumulated privilege widens the damage and the unknown third party with access becomes the vector.
Cost Compromised credentials grew 160% in 2025 (Check Point) and are the initial vector in 22% of breaches (Verizon DBIR), appearing in more than half of them. Internal actors account for 29% of incidents and privilege abuse for 12% — nearly a third of the risk lives inside the badge, while the average global breach cost already exceeds US$ 4.8 million.
From the verified person to the audit, in one cycle.
- 01
Anchor
The account is born from verified identity — a real person confirmed by our engines and a third party with access approved by the KYS pipeline.
- 02
Provision
Automated JML lifecycle from HR and contracts: onboarding provisions by role, change reconfigures and offboarding revokes everything — instantly.
- 03
Protect
SSO with phishing-resistant MFA by default; privileged accounts under vault, with recorded session, approval and just-in-time elevation.
- 04
Govern
Recertification campaigns with owner, deadline and evidence; a trail of who has what, approved by whom and reviewed when — ready for audit.
The six layers of governed identity
Traditional IAM manages accounts. Kavuka manages verified people with accounts — the link that closes the category’s structural gap.
Lifecycle (JML)
Automated provisioning, change and revocation
Authentication and SSO
Single entry point with phishing-resistant MFA
Authorization (RBAC/ABAC)
Least privilege as enforceable policy
Privileged access
Vault, recorded session and just-in-time elevation
Governance and recertification
Who has what, approved and reviewed with evidence
Verified identity
The account tied to the real person (KYE) and third party (KYS)
Role profiles
Access by role and attributes, not by exception
Audit trail
Every grant and revocation with rationale and date
Who governs access with Kavuka IAM
Certified companies (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
Access governance as a certification requirement — documented provisioning, review and revocation.
Operations with many contractors
Access for people outside the headcount, verified by the KYS pipeline and expirable by design.
Fast-scaling companies
The access chaos that scales with you, tamed before it becomes the breach that logs in.
Those handling personal data at scale
Access to data as a demonstrable obligation: who saw what, authorized by whom and when.
The access management ISO requires and data-protection law expects
Kavuka IAM was designed so access governance is not a report at the end, but the way the pipeline operates. Documented identity management — provisioning, review, revocation and trail — is exactly the control ISO 27001 and SOC 2 require and the evidence of personal-data access governance that data-protection law demands.
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 access control: documented lifecycle, periodic review and segregation of duties.
- Governed access to personal data: a record of who accessed it, for what purpose and for how long.
- Periodic recertification with owner, deadline and evidence — the end of the spreadsheet review nobody answers.
- Per-grant audit trail: every access with rationale, approver, source and date, ready for the auditor.
- Identity anchored to real verification and third parties validated by the KYS pipeline; encryption in transit and at rest.
HR offboarding now revokes every access instantly. The orphan accounts the audit flagged every year simply stopped existing.
Every third party with access went through verification before getting a credential. The audit’s “who is this person?” became a one-click report.
We stopped accumulating privilege with every role change. The move reconfigures instead of adding, and recertification finally runs with a deadline and an owner.
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What IAM is and why identity became the perimeter
IAM (Identity & Access Management) is the discipline that defines who each user is — employee, third party, partner or system —, what each can access, for how long and with what evidence. In practice, it governs the full lifecycle of an identity within the company: provisioning at entry (joiner), adjustment on role change (mover) and revocation at exit (leaver), the so-called JML cycle. Around this cycle orbit SSO (single authentication point), access profiles (RBAC/ABAC), privileged access management and periodic recertification governance.
The context that defines the category is clear: the modern attack does not break in, it logs in. Compromised credentials grew 160% in 2025 (Check Point); stolen credentials are the initial vector in 22% of breaches and appear in more than half of them (Verizon DBIR); internal actors account for 29% of incidents and privilege abuse for 12%. Microsoft reports 600 million identity attacks per day in its telemetry — the scale of the problem. Identity became the perimeter, and IAM is the wall. When the credential is valid, no alarm fires: the ex-employee’s orphan account is the door left open, and the privilege accumulated at every role change is the damage multiplied.
The global category is mature — Okta and Microsoft Entra in workforce IAM, SailPoint in governance (IGA), CyberArk in privilege (PAM) —, yet they all share the same structural gap: digital identity is not anchored to the real person. Traditional IAM manages accounts, not verified people; the link between account and human is, at heart, an HR record nobody validated. Kavuka’s differentiator is precisely that link: the corporate account is born from the identity pipeline — the person confirmed by document, biometrics and grounding by our engines, with the natural bridge to KYE —, and the third party with access is a third party verified by KYS. The orphan credential, the account of someone who already left, is what the automated lifecycle extinguishes by design.
Automating IAM means turning that governance into a single flow: the account anchored to the verified person, the JML cycle triggered by HR and contract events, SSO with phishing-resistant MFA, privileged access under vault with just-in-time elevation and periodic recertification with owner, deadline and evidence. The result is the right access, for the right person — verified —, for the right time, with proof: zero orphan accounts, true least privilege and an audit with answers. It is the documented access management ISO 27001 and SOC 2 require and the evidence of personal-data access governance that data-protection law expects — not as a report at the end, but as the way to operate.
What is the JML cycle?
JML is Joiner-Mover-Leaver: the joiner provisions access by the role profile, the mover reconfigures instead of accumulating, and the leaver automatically revokes everything from the HR event. It is the end of the ex-employee orphan account that stays active for months.
What does identity anchored to a real person mean?
It means the corporate account is born from a real identity verification — document, biometrics and grounding by the Kavuka engines — and that third parties with access go through the verification pipeline. Traditional IAM manages accounts; Kavuka manages verified people with accounts.
Does Kavuka IAM replace Okta or Microsoft Entra?
It can operate as the full IAM or as a governance and identity-anchor layer on top of your existing directory. The integration preserves the current investment — you add real verification and governance without replacing the base.
How does Kavuka IAM handle privileged access?
With a credential vault, approved and recorded sessions, and just-in-time elevation — privilege granted only for the duration of the task. The accounts that can do everything, the attacker’s number-one target, stay under the number-one control.
Does Kavuka IAM meet ISO 27001 and data-protection law?
Yes. Documented access management — provisioning, review, revocation and trail — is exactly the control ISO 27001 and SOC 2 require, and the evidence of personal-data access governance that data-protection law expects.
How does IAM handle access for third parties and contractors?
The third party with access goes through the verification pipeline (KYS) before receiving the credential, and access is expirable by design. It ends the phantom third party — the access nobody can attribute — that becomes a recurring audit finding.
What is access recertification and why does it matter?
It is the periodic review of who has what, with owner, deadline and evidence. Instead of the spreadsheet nobody answers, Kavuka IAM runs campaigns where each manager confirms or revokes access in their area — producing the proof audits and data-protection law ask for.
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