In our previous posts for this 5-part series on lifecycle management, we offered various best practices you could implement to better manage identity data, lifecycle processes, and access grants. Today, we’ll review the identity-related challenges surrounding audits and compliance, and offer ten ways to gradually chip away at the complexities of increasingly demanding regulations. Compliance can be a huge resource drain as your organisation grows, and while your security team holds responsibility for helping auditors understand who has access to what, IT is often tasked with providing that data for them. As you’d expect, the extent of this burden varies greatly across companies. Those at the earliest stages of LCM maturity often resort to long spreadsheets of account information—a manual, time-consuming process. Others implement sophisticated tools to fully automate in-depth access reviews. We’ve looked at the full spectrum of approaches to tackling audits and compliance, and grouped them along.