Understanding Lifecycle Management and Regulatory Compliance
The importance of proper lifecycle management cannot be understated for IT teams today: this is the practice of giving the right users the right access to the tools and information they need. It begins on day one with their onboarding and provisioning, and continues throughout their lifetime at the company until they move on and their access is revoked.
For many teams, this process was once (or still is) manual, which is risky, burdensome to IT, HR, and department leads, and therefore time-consuming and costly. This challenge becomes exponentially larger for companies in healthcare, and those that work with government organizations — strict compliance regulations such as NIST, HIPAA, or HITECH mean they are under constant scrutiny from reg