Identity Lifecycle Management, or ILM, is a buzz phrase that refers to a collection of technologies and business processes utilized in creating, managing, coordinating and restricting the identification, access and governance of identities for access to business tools and information. ILM is closely associated with Identity Management (IdM) and Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Access to Critical Business data
Also known as Identity Life Cycle Management, ILM encompasses the entire span of an employee’s need to access critical business data, apps and tools in order to effectively perform their tasks and accomplish business objectives. It entails ensuring employees have access at various times and locations while logging, monitoring and restricting access when necessary to increase security and protect the enterprise’s mission-critical data.
Identity Lifecycle Management also addresses the need for deprovisioning, or removing, access when an employee leaves the company or changes roles within the company.
Identity Lifecycle Management vs. Information Lifecycle Management
While Identity Lifecycle Management shares the ILM acronym with Information Lifecyle Management, the two refer to different assets of an enterprise. The focus of Information Lifecycle Management is in managing the data of an organization, whereas Identity Lifecycle Management addresses the individuals who access and work with that data.
