Full control
Access Management
The real lever for your Identity Governance & Administration
Many organizations invest in automating onboarding while overlooking the larger share of their IGA costs. Access Management, the ongoing administration of access rights, causes most of the effort in day-to-day operations. With FirstWare IDM-Portal, you regain control of this cost block.
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Reality Check:
Where the money really disappears
An identity is created once and deleted once. Access rights, however, are constantly assigned, adjusted and revoked.
Hidden day-to-day costs
Manual administration consumes enormous resources in day-to-day operations.
Permissions accumulate unnoticed
Employees accumulate hundreds of access rights unnoticed.
Every adjustment takes time
Ongoing permission changes are laboriously coordinated by hand.
Licenses simply keep running
Unused access continues to generate ongoing costs.
Your Access Management with the IDM-Portal
The largest cost block under control
Why access costs more than identity
An identity is created once and disappears once, when an employee joins and when they leave. Access rights, however, change constantly, driven by new projects, department changes and growing areas of responsibility.
That is exactly where the real cost problem lies. Organizations invest a lot of energy in smooth onboarding while overlooking that most of the effort only arises afterward, during ongoing access administration.
FirstWare IDM-Portal starts exactly where the largest cost block arises: in ongoing access administration, not just in one-time onboarding.
Permission management, that really takes effect
Every permission assigned correctly, without detours
In FirstWare IDM-Portal, you add groups directly in an employee profile using an intuitive input form. The same works the other way round: in the group view, you can see at a glance who is a member and add or remove users with just a few clicks.
Predefined rules ensure that every assignment is correct: no misspelled group names, no overlooked permissions. Resource owners, whether in IT or in business departments, manage their permission groups themselves. When an employee’s role changes, their group memberships are automatically adjusted as well. Changes take effect consistently across your entire hybrid system landscape.
This applies not only to employees: service accounts and other non-human identities can also be managed through the same group and resource owner structures.
Visibility prevents errors
Human-Centric Design and Access Visibility
For us, Human-Centric Design means that the portal adapts to the people who work with it, not the other way around. Instead of requiring specialist knowledge, the interface explains itself and is easy to understand for anyone who needs to review or assign permissions. This noticeably reduces onboarding costs from the start.
Access Visibility has an impact in another area: greater security. In an employee profile, you can see at a glance which group memberships they have, instead of working through tables and exports. This transparency helps prevent the gradual accumulation of rights that are no longer needed.
What is visible gets noticed. What gets noticed is corrected before it becomes a bigger problem.
Automatically less attack surface
As little access as possible, as much as necessary
Consistent Access Management automatically reduces your attack surface. Permission accumulation is prevented and your organization remains compliant with requirements such as NIS2. When a role or position changes, the associated access rights are adjusted automatically as well, with no need for manual maintenance.
This also applies to your own IT department. Because administrators manage permissions through FirstWare IDM-Portal instead of directly in your directory services, they themselves require significantly fewer far-reaching privileges.
This also pays off for licenses. Access that is no longer needed is automatically identified and released instead of continuing to generate costs month after month.
NHI access clearly in view
What applies to people also applies to machines
Service accounts, API interfaces and AI agents often receive far-reaching access without ever appearing in employee onboarding or recertification processes. FirstWare IDM-Portal makes these non-human identities visible and controllable as well, using the same principles as for your employees: minimal permission assignment and fast traceability.
Because the number of such accounts often grows much faster than the number of employees, this closes a gap that remains completely unmonitored in many organizations.
What is FirstWare IDM-Portal?
Flexible IAM solution for Identity Governance & Administration
FirstWare IDM-Portal is a user-friendly IAM solution for automated provisioning and lifecycle management of all identities and groups in complex, hybrid IT landscapes.
Powered by my-IAM – the underlying technology platform that enables seamless connection of any IT systems and cloud services.
Access control for your entire IT landscape
Whether cloud-native, hybrid or on-premise: FirstWare IDM-Portal brings your Access Management onto a common foundation across the entire system landscape instead of controlling each system separately.
HR integration
Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, SD Worx / Loga3
Identity Providers & Directories
Microsoft Entra ID, Keycloak, hybrid infrastructures
Specialized & industry software
Dedalus Orbis, SQL integrations, CSV & API connectors
Your benefits
90% less
IGA effort
Self-explanatory operation
Consistent least-privilege principle
Access Visibility against permission accumulation
Minimal admin rights
Automatic license savings
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions about Access Management, secure access control, needs-based permissions and transparent access governance with FirstWare IDM-Portal.
What is Access Management (Access Governance & Administration)?
Access Management covers the ongoing administration, control and protection of access rights in an organization. Unlike the one-time creation of an identity, it is a continuous process.
Why does Access Management require more effort than Identity Management?
An identity is usually created once and deleted once. Access rights change continuously, driven by projects, role changes and new tasks. This is exactly why 80 to 90 percent of ongoing IGA effort is spent on Access Administration.
Do my administrators still work with full admin rights when using the IDM-Portal?
No, in most cases they no longer do. Because permission changes run through FirstWare IDM-Portal instead of directly in Active Directory or Entra ID, your administrators themselves need significantly fewer far-reaching rights.
Does the IDM-Portal manage permissions or groups?
On this page, we use the simplified term “permissions”. Technically, FirstWare IDM-Portal usually manages group memberships. These groups control the actual access to a target system, such as a SharePoint area or an application. For your users, the result is the same: controlled access, with the technical control handled through groups.
How quickly does an investment in Access Management pay for itself?
For many organizations, the annual savings exceed the implementation costs in the first year. We can determine how quickly this pays off in your specific case in a personal consultation.
How does Access Management support compliance with NIS2 and other requirements?
Consistent Access Management prevents permission accumulation and makes every permission traceable. This significantly reduces the risk of substantial fines.
Does Access Management also save license costs?
Yes, often substantially. Access and licenses that are no longer needed are automatically identified and released instead of continuing unnoticed.
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