CyberArk IGA
Automation has transformed access governance and now needs better support and clearer guidance
What is our primary use case?
I have been using Idira IGA for Identity and Governance and Administration, which is part of CyberArk. Recently, there was a Palo Alto acquisition, and after that, they rebranded the entire product towards Idira. In terms of identifying the owner of the secrets and making the compliance status of those secrets, I'm doing the governance and allocating the joiners, moving, and leaving workflow from SalePoint. SalePoint is also one of the combinations of CyberArk Idira.
My main use case for Idira IGA is primarily for joiner, mover, and leaver workflow. When any employee joins the organization, they get access automatically based on their role, based on the organizational level they are joining, and which team they are joining. All those prerequisites are filled in, and they will be getting all the access that is desired. This overall process requires creating workflows, and these workflows are triggered as soon as any employee joins, moves within the organization, or leaves the company, so access is also deprovisioned automatically.
Recently, I worked on a specific example of how I used Idira IGA for a joiner, mover, or leaver workflow, which includes different ways of connecting to various systems like a ServiceNow form and also a SalePoint form. Those forms are triggered by HR. As soon as the employee joins in, they can get the access. This is the main use case I have been working on with this particular overall process.
How has it helped my organization?
Idira IGA has impacted us significantly because it removes a lot of manual intervention and human intervention, making our lives easier.
I have an overall of metrics showing 1,000 plus users that usually join within one or two quarters in my organization, which is a huge impact and eliminates human error while also providing a faster way for an end user to get the best experience.
My team spends around two to three months on access reviews and evidence collection compared to before.
Idira IGA tool best describes the impact of automation on our access reviews. We usually create the workflows and provide all the relevant artifacts to the automation metadata, which connects to the back-end systems like ServiceNow, scanning all applications, correlating the data between who owns that and how it's accessed, and what are the permissions and RBAC permissions required.
We see a lot of improvement in terms of getting all the reports and ensuring the data we see is accurate, governance and compliance, risk-free audits, and with the help of this, we achieve our secure enterprise.
What is most valuable?
Idira IGA can offer governance, auditing, and administration towards the secrets or ownership of accounts or the users, making the environment or the platform compliant.
Idira IGA's AI capabilities ensure that it has a proper or desired ownership of those AI governance, helping to identify if something goes wrong with particular identities and can easily track down and eliminate risks, thus cleaning our attack surface.
What needs improvement?
Idira IGA can improve by adding AI bots as well, which will help if any end user is experiencing an issue or if anybody new to Idira IGA can easily understand with the help of the bot, which will provide more insights about how we can do the administration and the integration part.
I chose seven out of ten because it requires a few more improvements to make it more accessible or easy to understand regarding technical terminologies while we are doing the administration of the tool.
It also requires more LLM to be trained because it is a newly launched product and it requires a bit more time to get proper or accurate data to utilize moving forward so that we can rely on the responses we receive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Idira IGA for the last four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Idira IGA is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Idira IGA is good; it provides 99.999% availability.
How are customer service and support?
I feel that customer support is somewhat lacking; the supporting engineers do not have the necessary knowledge, and they will route inquiries here and there without providing solutions quickly. It takes a lot of time as they go back to check with the relevant team and get back to us. I would rate customer support four out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used SalePoint, which required a lot of development skillsets from engineers. That is the reason why we did not want to have that dedicated engineer; we prefer something user-friendly that anybody can learn and get things done.
How was the initial setup?
It took about two to three months to deploy our previous IGA solution, from setup to initial go-live. It took one to two months to deploy CyberArk Modern IGA.
It is not only about that; it is including migrating from CyberArk on-premises to the privilege cloud, which took an overall of one to two months of effort to migrate all 50,000 accounts from on-premises to the privilege cloud of CyberArk.
CyberArk deployment was easier and faster because they have custom tools that help us deploy things in a faster way as we follow the standard instructions from the SOPs, eliminating human errors and making our lives easy. There are a few things that can be handled by the vendor back-end systems.
What was our ROI?
With the help of this, we complete the entire project and can spin up other projects, prioritizing other things without wasting time doing manual tasks, making this approach more helpful for us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I have a separate way of procuring, as we have all the suite of CyberArk products and have taken care of it through our partner relationship.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate other options before choosing Idira IGA.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Idira IGA seven out of ten. I would definitely recommend Idira IGA to other teams and individuals, as it can help them get things ready faster and maintain compliance-free auditing alongside compliance status.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Identity automation has transformed access governance and now simplifies audits and compliance
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Idira IGA is integrations with other external applications and reconciling AD accounts with other applications, which acts as an entitlement or access provisioning and de-provisioning mechanism primarily focused on the joiner, mover, leaver process.
A recent example of using Idira IGA for provisioning is when access is requested as a new employee joins the organization or moves from a different role, with the approval needed for either automatic or manual provisioning from ServiceNow, integrated with Idira IGA for mapping access to the relevant AD and application team, while the de-provisioning takes care of removing entitlement access when a user leaves the organization.
Idira IGA operates at a granular level of access control, ensuring everything is getting audited, with access certification being one of our primary use cases on a quarterly, biannual, or annual basis to validate access for existing employees, while plans are in place for non-human identity certification as well.
How has it helped my organization?
Idira IGA positively impacts my organization by enhancing security posture in terms of identity and access management, focusing on digital identity, not just human-based accounts but also involving non-human identity as well.
Since using Idira IGA, the integrated model ensures that provisioning and de-provisioning happen seamlessly without manual intervention, supporting audits with proper data and proof that validates integrations and minimizes manual errors for a great product.
Automation significantly reduces manual effort, improving accuracy and providing visibility for higher management.
Automation has lessened the labor involved in L1 level tasks for my team.
Using Idira IGA has dramatically improved efficiency, requiring fewer people with significant time saved, which is one of its best features.
What is most valuable?
The best features Idira IGA offers include its comprehensive product capabilities that allow for integration with other security tools, such as access management and PAM, while merging with network-level changes to add value.
The integrations with other security tools and network components, such as Palo Alto, help my team by enabling streamlined access provisioning, multi-factor authentication, and support for single sign-on to ensure that users do not have to validate multiple passwords.
What needs improvement?
Idira IGA needs more focus on non-human identities; as we move into Agentic AI or GenAI features, we should concentrate on setting guardrails for Agentic AI and related accounts, which is a primary area of improvement.
The user experience is easy and straightforward for integration, but reporting needs to provide timely information and proactive measures so necessary actions can be taken if issues arise, instead of only reacting to compromises.
Competitors such as SailPoint and Saviynt are strong and offer many features, and although Idira IGA is improving and evolving, there is still much customization needed.
Regarding Idira IGA's AI capabilities, there is uncertainty about how to set guardrails for AI, highlighting the need for enhancements in AI capabilities.
The accuracy and reliability of Idira IGA's AI output are really good, rating at seven to eight, though improvements are needed due to ongoing enhancements and feature developments.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Idira IGA for the last four or five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Idira IGA is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Its scalability is really good.
How are customer service and support?
I rate customer support as one of the best, especially when receiving premium or professional service; they respond accurately and provide help when support cases are raised.
I would rate customer support between eight and nine.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used SailPoint for its integration and ease of use before switching to Idira IGA.
How was the initial setup?
Idira IGA was previously on-premise, and we moved to a private cloud without using a public cloud.
We use AWS as our private cloud provider.
We purchased Idira IGA separately and deployed it on top of our existing AWS environment.
It took six months to deploy Idira IGA from setup to initial go-live.
The Idira IGA deployment was a little faster than past solutions; once all the prerequisites were set up, the process was quicker.
What was our ROI?
I prefer not to disclose specific numbers, but Idira IGA has brought a lot of value to the overall environment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a bit costly, and for a larger environment, it took millions, depending on the number of licenses required.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Idira IGA, we evaluated options such as Saviynt and the IBM IGI tool.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others considering Idira IGA is that it is beneficial as long as you validate it against your current requirements. I would rate Idira IGA an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Current deployment has simplified user account management and provides straightforward setup
What is our primary use case?
I am still in the implementation phase, so there are no use cases as we discussed. I am using Idira IGA for account management and managing users.
I do not have any automations implemented at the moment.
What is most valuable?
I appreciate that Idira IGA is very easy to understand and deploy. That is one feature I can mention, and I am yet to explore the rest of the features.
The benefit of Idira IGA is ease of use.
So far, I have not seen any measurable improvements in deployment, reviews, or provisioning since implementing it, as I have not used the previous versions and am not familiar with them.
What needs improvement?
Errors are present in terms of the environment where I am deploying, but from the product perspective, no errors are found.
There should be improvement in terms of Idira IGA support. Everything else is good, but support is very lacking.
For how long have I used the solution?
I do work with Idira IGA, also known as Identity Management. I have been using Idira IGA for approximately five months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I was having a few performance and stability issues with Idira IGA.
There was an issue with the Remote Desktop Service and version of PSM Cloud, so I had to downgrade and check. I was still facing the issue.
I solved the issue for RDS and continued to persist with the version issue, but I had to upgrade the version and then install it again.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not tried to scale it.
How are customer service and support?
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the support a five.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting Idira IGA, I have not used a different product or solution.
How was the initial setup?
My team has not spent any time on access reviews and evidence collection with Idira IGA because I am still in the deployment implementation phase.
What about the implementation team?
I do have an integrator for the ongoing implementation.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Regarding the pricing aspect, I am not familiar with that. I do not know anything about the pricing, setup cost, or licensing part.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have not evaluated any other options or solutions available in the market. I was directly pulled into the project.
What other advice do I have?
I bought it from Palo Alto, but I do not know if it was through local channels, local partners, or marketplaces.
Given my experience with it, I have no recommendation from my side. I would rate this review an eight overall.
Automation has streamlined identity workflows and saves significant time in access management
What is our primary use case?
I have known Idira IGA for about three years now. I work with Idira IGA as a consultant for a system integrator company. I am both a consultant and a system integrator. My clients mainly handle Privileged Access Management (PAM) use cases for Idira IGA. I handle PAM for the banking sector and also for manufacturers.
What is most valuable?
The biggest advantage of this tool is that it is a Gartner leader, making it easier to propose to customers. I find the implementation phase easier compared to other products.
The automation part of Idira IGA is what we love the most because it simplifies the use of the application. With automation, we save a lot of time because it cuts our effort in half. If we need one hour, with automation, we can cut it to half an hour.
The features I appreciate most in Idira IGA are the simplified dashboard and the automation configuration, which other brands cannot offer. It saves time and effort for my team.
What needs improvement?
I do not see any areas for improvement at this time.
In the future, I think they could add new functionalities. I am from Indonesia and we lack local consultants for discussions and brainstorming on potential features. We do not have local support here.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I find Idira IGA to be quite stable and reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scaling Idira IGA is easy. If I want to scale up, I just add more licensing and storage as needed, as it is VM-based.
How are customer service and support?
If I had to rate my experience with Idira IGA's support, I would give it an 8 to 8.5 out of 10. The absence of local support is the only reason for this rating.
How was the initial setup?
I do not see any problems with deployment, as I find it easy to install. Deployment for Idira IGA depends on customer needs. For banking, they prefer on-premises, while for those requiring cloud solutions, we propose cloud for easier maintenance and accessibility. Deployment usually takes around three weeks to one month, as we first need to source the asset and access permissions.
What was our ROI?
It is easy to notice a return on investment (ROI) and I do see value for money. For the ROI from the customer's perspective, especially in banking, using Idira IGA for identity management brings ROI mostly if they use it for about two or three years.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing for Idira IGA varies. It is essential to consider it from different perspectives, but for the features Idira IGA offers, I find it affordable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I can compare Idira IGA to similar products, such as Delinea. While Delinea may be less expensive, Idira IGA's licensing and all-inclusive features stand out. I would say Idira IGA is more advanced, particularly with its integration from the Palo Alto database, which is significantly more powerful than other brands.
What other advice do I have?
Regarding access reviews and evidence collection, I find it more feasible due to the improved dashboard and asset management. I would rate this review an 8.5 out of 10.
Privileged access has improved compliance and accountability but still needs smoother onboarding
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Idira IGA is related to CyberArk at Truist Bank, where I owned the end-to-end delivery of a CyberArk Application Access Manager implementation. I specifically managed the scope and sequencing, Splunk integration, and shared accounts and service accounts remediation, as well as disaster recovery testing. My CyberArk experience is primarily at the program delivery and integration level.
How has it helped my organization?
Idira IGA has positively impacted my organization in terms of security posture, compliance and audit impact, and operational impact. For the security posture impact, before the CyberArk implementation, privileged access at Truist was a huge risk, with service accounts using hardcoded credentials in configuration files. After implementation, those accounts retrieve credentials dynamically from Idira IGA vault at runtime.
Regarding compliance and audit impact, the program had a direct SOX audit requirement. A good percentage of privileged accounts were onboarded into CyberArk within a specific timeframe to meet the bank's compliance application. For operational impact, I had over 500 shared accounts and service accounts retired and replaced with individual CyberArk manager accounts. This change alone brought significant operational consequences, such as accountability improvements and enhanced stability, given our pre-onboarding validation process.
In summary, the CyberArk implementation at Truist eliminated static credential exposure across over 200 plus enterprise applications, and my team and I brought over 500 privileged accounts under active vault management.
What is most valuable?
While discussing the best features Idira IGA offers, I mentioned the challenges, including application owner pushback on the onboarding timeline, particularly for their production systems. Furthermore, the shared account or service account remediation was particularly complex because we often did not have complete visibility into which systems depended on a given shared account. For features, I appreciate the end-to-end ownership, not just a piece. Most people who touch a CyberArk program own slices of it, but I owned the end-to-end implementation. The features of zero service disruption across 500 plus environments are among the strongest, along with proactive risk identification, compliance outcomes under a hard audit deadline, and creative dependency mapping using Splunk. Additionally, the disaster recovery validation that tested the failure scenario is crucial.
I took over a million-dollar CyberArk program from scope definition to a clean audit close, remediating over 500 accounts across legacy banking applications and catching a critical credential rotation risk before it reached production, delivering real-time privileged access visibility to the SOC environment with almost zero service disruption and zero audit findings.
What needs improvement?
Idira IGA could improve in the way access is provisioned for different users. My perspective on this improvement comes from the program delivery and implementation side. The application onboarding complexity needs to be simpler. Idira IGA could improve by providing a lighter-weight integration option that does not require application code changes. Additionally, while automatic credential rotation is one of Idira IGA's most prominent security features, it can be dangerous for large enterprises if not done properly. A rotation event that was carried out in the test environment caused an application to lose its database connection because it cached the old credential instead of calling Idira IGA dynamically. Therefore, Idira IGA could improve by incorporating an automated application impact assessment into the onboarding workflow.
Visibility into account sprawl before onboarding could also enhance usability, as the strongest problems for shared accounts or service account remediation were our lack of visibility into which systems depended on a given shared account. Idira IGA itself does not discover that dependency map, managing only the accounts it is programmed to report. Additionally, the native reporting in Idira IGA is functional but not executive-ready.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Idira IGA since 2025, and it has been about two years.
What other advice do I have?
An example of how I used Idira IGA was when I implemented it in the form of CyberArk with privileged access management, or PAM.
I mentioned the SOX compliance at the bank as the primary regulatory driver behind the CyberArk program. The SOX Act requires financial institutions to maintain strict control over access to financial systems, knowing who has access, what they did, and whether the access is properly managed and audited. The ISO/IEC 27001 compliance requires organizations to implement and maintain an information security management system with documented controls across access management, logging, monitoring, and incident response. Several of these controls were mapped directly to what the CyberArk program delivered.
I would rate Idira IGA a six out of ten overall. I chose this rating because of the areas where I see improvements could be made. My observations about operational friction points and the challenges slowing down adoption during implementation have led to this rating.
Regarding Idira IGA's AI capabilities, I believe there could be improvements in prioritizing features that reduce implementation friction and increase adoption.
The AI-driven anomaly detection and improvements represent a long-term opportunity for Idira IGA. This is where the platform needs to head to stay ahead of the threat landscape. Simpler legacy application onboarding, smarter rotation readiness checks, and native dependency discovery will make a significant difference for organizations.
Idira IGA is deployed in the cloud across the two organizations I have experience with.
Improvements needed for Idira IGA that I have not mentioned yet include alignment with banking regulations and compliance as well as enhancements according to the national NIST framework.
At Truist Bank, it took us about six months to deploy our previous IGA solution, primarily because we had to conduct compliance checks with various teams. Deploying CyberArk Modern IGA took three months. Compared to past solutions, the CyberArk deployment was pretty fast due to strong support from account managers and the many out-of-the-box configurations CyberArk offered.
My team spends less time on access reviews and evidence collection compared to before, taking about two to three hours of work with two technical people, depending on the subject matter experts available. Automation has made access reviews faster and more accurate.
My advice for others looking into using Idira IGA would be to prioritize improvements that reduce implementation friction and increase adoption. The gap between what CyberArk can do and what an organization achieves is not due to platform capability, but rather the difficulty of achieving effective implementation. Simpler legacy application onboarding, smarter rotation readiness checks, and native dependency discovery will differentiate organizations that achieve full privileged access coverage from those that stall at 60 percent and stop. My insights come from leading delivery and identifying operational friction points rather than from a product engineering perspective.
Idira IGA is a very good solution for privileged access management and stands out against the rest. I hope it continues to improve. My overall rating for this review is six out of ten.
Secure password rotations and monitored sessions have strengthened our daily banking operations
What is our primary use case?
In our day-to-day activities, we use Idira IGA for storing passwords, rotating passwords, and securing connections.
We support users and onboard user accounts, elevated accounts, privileged accounts, and all accounts on Idira IGA. On a daily basis, we rotate them according to company policies.
Apart from password rotations, we store passwords on the web application. According to user requirements, we provide access to users and approvers. Once a user requests a password, the manager must approve it. Then, the user can access the password. We have implemented policies according to Idira IGA policies.
What is most valuable?
The best feature is the secure logins and secure connections. Whenever a user needs to connect to the target machine, they must log in to the web application. From the web application, the user can connect to the target machine with the help of the PSM component. This is a very valuable feature in Idira IGA.
Not only my team, but the entire organization stores recordings with the help of this PSM. Whenever a user wants to connect to the target machine, they must log in to Idira IGA, which is CyberArk. Later, from the web application, the user can connect to the target machine. This allows for secure connection instead of a user directly connecting through RDP.
Apart from this, whenever a user tries to access the target machine and does something wrong, the manager can monitor what the user is doing and has permissions to stop the session whenever needed. Idira IGA has many features in the PSM component.
In my organization, with the help of Idira IGA, we secure our passwords and rotate passwords. This is very helpful for our organization to maintain secure growth.
What needs improvement?
Currently, they are improving significantly, and whenever vulnerabilities arrive, they notify customers. Whenever they upgrade versions, they notify customers. This is very good. Whenever we contact customer support, they provide prompt responses. Everything is good on their end.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my current field for around ten years, and I have been working in my current organization for three years.
How are customer service and support?
Whenever we contact customer support, they provide prompt responses. Everything is good on their end.
What other advice do I have?
On a daily basis, we rotate passwords automatically. Whenever the user retrieves the password, after settings such as twelve hours or eight hours, the password expires. This means that the user cannot use the same password again. This is very secure. The organization, as I work in the banking sector, finds this very helpful for us and our clients to maintain all applications securely.
I would suggest to them that whenever an issue occurs, with the help of logs, we need to go to Idira IGA community portal and validate that.
Identity governance has strengthened automation and now delivers holistic security insights
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Idira IGA is mostly for the governance and administration point of view. Normally, we are using a UAR facilities and joiner mover leaver part.
One specific example of how I use Idira IGA for governance and administration is that we align the policy and procedure based on the access request approval workflow, user access review, SOD policies, and provisioning engine.
What is most valuable?
Idira IGA is integrated with privileged access management, and it gives us broader identity security capabilities in a single platform, which is an added advantage.
The best features Idira IGA offers include especially the provisioning engine, which gave us a broader scope and broader identification for security prospects.
Multiple features worth highlighting include adding an identity security platform with PAM, then ITDR capabilities, and Microsoft Entra suite, and how it will integrate with the CyberArk PAM.
Idira IGA has positively impacted my organization by providing good governance and giving us more depth information as an SOC and NOC provisioning, especially since we are already using Office 365, Entra ID, Intune, and Microsoft Defender.
The depth of information has helped my team by integrating with PAM and giving us a holistic view based on the access management, identity threat detections, and identity governance, providing a very broad umbrella to solve things based on security layers.
The impact of automation on our access reviews is significant, as it reduces the manual work. For example, automation has reduced time and effort for our team, as it correlates with Idira IGA, PAM, and other SOC environments, giving a complete holistic view for troubleshooting and identifying the operation model and security posture compliance, ultimately providing cost structure-wise business agility. The great value comes when moving forward to relative operations in a policy-driven manner, giving us a good output.
What needs improvement?
Idira IGA can be improved in addressing our core pain point of joiner, leaver, and remover, which we identify with SSO, MFA, read admin access, PAM request, and the process holistic view and hierarchy, particularly in the model and the integration part based on the HRM module or JD Edward module.
Integration with JD Edwards, especially with SAML authentication, would be beneficial.
Improvements are needed on the reporting side and integration with the ITSM module for smoother automation and intelligence graph based on department-wise organization. The automated response needs to revoke token, force MFA, and disable accounts more proactively in the reporting side.
Idira IGA's scalability still needs to mature more; over time, it will mature and provide us with a more holistic view and details about the correlation and integration into a single umbrella.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Idira IGA for the past two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Idira IGA is stable and has been reliable for us so far.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Idira IGA's scalability still needs to mature more; over time, it will mature and provide us with a more holistic view and details about the correlation and integration into a single umbrella.
How are customer service and support?
We have not interacted much with the AI capabilities, but it has very good machine learning behavior analytics and provides good risk scoring, giving us proper graph analytics. However, we want more proactive reporting if it is integrated with multiple solutions such as IGA, PAM, and ITDR, providing us a more holistic view.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution; earlier we only used PAM, which is CyberArk, and now we have integrated with the same.
How was the initial setup?
It took five months to deploy Idira IGA from setup to initial go-live as a maturity part. Compared to the past solutions, there is not much difference; I noticed no major differences since the organization level structure designing took almost the same time.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a little return on investment, which is a bit early, but it is time saved and employee savings that one can note.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is costly compared to other marketplaces, but based on the utilization, I will see if it is really worthwhile or not.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Idira IGA, we evaluated other options based on governance and marketplace validation.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Idira IGA is that the correlation and the integration are the added benefits and holistic view, but it needs to work more on the reporting side, and once matured more, we will be able to know because the good features are joiner, mover, and leaver, role mining, access review, and PAM integration, which are key points.
Idira IGA needs to focus on identity maturity and the visibility life cycle, especially with governance automations and business transformation. As I am transforming from on-premises to cloud, I want to see the benefits and level of governance automation we can fetch. I rate this product an eight overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Unified identity governance has streamlined automation, compliance, and audit readiness
What is our primary use case?
Idira IGA serves as a unified platform combining IAM, PAM, IGA, and machine identity security within HP. One example of how I use Idira IGA in my day-to-day work is through the PAM capability, where we utilize something called digital workforce within HP. These are Bot IDs used for automations. Whenever we request any new automation to be created, we request a Bot ID with the IGA team within HP, and then it gets onboarded to the PAM solution for automatic credential rotation management on the platform.
Other use cases for Idira IGA include management of specific types of accounts, such as supplemental accounts and service accounts. We also use IGA for onboarding users into many other applications within our organization and providing user access, attaching the roles and permissions necessary. Using this platform, we are able to drive our SOX activities, including segregation of duties and other SOX controls which can occur on any application. Those activities are tracked and maintained on this platform.
What is most valuable?
Idira IGA offers several good features, including integration capabilities that allow it to integrate with many SaaS apps, on-premises apps, and cloud platforms. It also has APIs, which make it useful for integration with different types of downstream and upstream applications. Additionally, it provides a unified identity security platform that functions as a single platform for IGA, PAM, and IAM security, serving as a single control plane for all these platforms and capabilities. It also has native governance for most of these capabilities and inbuilt compliance integrated into the workflows, making it easy for us to meet our regulatory frameworks for SOX.
We rely mostly on the integration features of Idira IGA. For example, PAM is one of the tools we use most from Idira IGA, where we are connecting to privileged accounts and utilizing them for our automations across the organization. This is one of the most heavily used features. We also rely on this platform for our SOX activities to gather all audit-based evidence collections.
My favorite feature is the integration with PAM and the audit governance that it provides, making it truly helpful for us in driving our automations and SOX compliance activities. In terms of agentic capabilities and AI capabilities, it has some, but I believe it could improve in that area. We have not used that feature much, but I believe the combination of integration with agentic capabilities or autonomous agents within the platform could help increase the productivity of the platform.
Governance security on Idira IGA is very tight, providing all necessary requirements to keep data and transactions closely monitored. It has all the logging mechanisms within the platform. In terms of compliance, it aligns with most of the industry standard certifications and can be tightly integrated within our company network for setup. I believe AI readiness is present, with good governance and security measures in place.
Automation has significantly reduced both manual efforts and improved accuracy in our access reviews, which has changed how quickly we complete these processes. For example, we previously onboarded users through a different tool, which took considerable time due to back and forth emails and manual approvals for requests. Now, with this platform, everything is automated, requiring just one form and one approval, making the process much more efficient. What used to take about seven or eight days can now be accomplished within a couple of working days.
What needs improvement?
Idira IGA platform itself is somewhat complex to understand initially, so the UI and user interface could be simplified. This is one pain point I see. Additionally, an agentic layer could be improved on the platform. Instead of filling many forms to onboard any account or get access permissions, we could use the agent, invoke it, and through conversing naturally with the agent, we could get the access and onboarding completed quickly. This would simplify processes for most of our teams, so these two are the primary improvements I feel should be made.
Support is not an issue; however, performance-wise, the application feels somewhat heavyweight. It could possibly be made lighter by improving the underlying backend technology. Adding an additional agentic layer would also help simplify how we interact with the application.
The AI capabilities of Idira IGA are not extensively used by us, but I believe the accuracy of the responses we have utilized is good. However, regarding agentic actions, I think there is room for improvement overall on the platform.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my current field for almost thirteen years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Idira IGA is quite stable.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Idira IGA is good. They are responsive and provide a first response within a few hours, with most issues resolved within a couple of days.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not have any centralized IGA solution previously, but we had some tools around PAM such as CyberArk. Idira IGA now serves as a comprehensive solution that suits all of our needs.
How was the initial setup?
I believe it took somewhere around six months to go live with our previous IGA solution. Idira IGA deployment took less than a quarter. Compared to past solutions, our Idira deployment was at least 50 percent faster.
What was our ROI?
Currently, the return on investment is mostly reflected in time and effort reductions. We have indeed saved some headcounts as part of this deployment, but the metrics primarily highlight time-saving and accuracy improvements.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing-wise, I find Idira IGA very competitive compared to other IGA tools available in the market.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated options from other vendors, such as BeyondTrust, but Idira IGA suited us better.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend customers use Idira IGA as a single platform for all governance around PAM, application, and user provisioning. It is definitely recommended for large organization deployments. I provided this review with a rating of nine.
Automation has transformed access reviews and governance across human and non-human identities
What is our primary use case?
CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla includes automated access reviews and certification. We automate compliance campaigns, reducing manual effort by 80%. It provides pre-approvals that can eliminate over non-required entitlements, streamlining onboarding. We also use it for role changes and off-boarding for employees and contractors. Additionally, it provides comprehensive integration for more than 200 to 300 applications, allowing us to manage all users and entitlements within the Salesforce and Slack applications, as well as managing non-human identities like bots, service accounts, scripts, and workloads, which helps reduce risks in complex hybrid or multi-cloud environments. It is also used for auto-readiness, creating detailed audit trails for compliance reporting, answering questions such as who has done what process or what particular activities have been done for a particular duration. Overall, CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla helps us automate user access reviews, provisioning, and de-provisioning for both human and machine identities across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
What is most valuable?
The best feature of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is its rapid integration and deployment. It has a lot of pre-built integrations for SaaS applications as well as cloud-based and on-premise applications, which allows us significantly faster deployment compared to other legacy IGA tools. It also focuses on securing and managing non-human identities, bots, service accounts, and APIs, which often pose high security risks. It is used mostly for robotic automation, connecting applications that lack APIs and enabling automated data collection for governance.
With CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla, automation impacts our access reviews by allowing us to generate access reviews automatically. It generates entitlement profiles, analyzes access, and suggests approvals or denials based on the service and bot accounts we use. This overall reduces manual effort in access reviews by up to 60%, and it monitors the access reviews for recertification, notifying if a user has not utilized their privileged IDs for an extended period. The AI or automation suggests if this user is no longer using their access, prompting their manager to make a decision whether to approve or deny access.
Previously, we performed manual work repeatedly, creating one-by-one campaigns and triggering them individually. However, with automation, we now employ a group of people for on-demand recertification, and for all privileged IDs, we use time-based recertification that runs every quarter or every 90 days. This significantly reduces our time by about 40 to 60%, and no manual effort is required for these activities.
What needs improvement?
The UI of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is good, but there is room for improvement in the transition from legacy systems. Organizations with highly customized, long-standing legacy IGA tools may face a steep learning curve and complex data migration when moving to this modern AI-driven or cloud-native solution. Another limitation involves integration gaps. While CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla boasts extensive pre-built connectors, any application not covered requires manual configuration or the deployment of Zilla Universal Sync, which may increase implementation time and could be less effective for legacy applications. However, it can be quite useful for SaaS-based applications, so improvement in customization or configuration for legacy applications is needed.
There is a considerable dependency on data quality. The effectiveness of AI-driven insights, such as entitlement recommendations for approve, deny, or do nothing actions, is entirely reliant on the quality and accuracy of the data ingested from connected applications. This means data quality should not just depend on application integration but also overall user insights regarding usage, such as login activity or MFA utilization.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this newly launched solution, CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla, since the second quarter of last year in my organization.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Regarding stability, I recommend it at nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
For scalability, I would also rate it nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate the technical support of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla an eight out of ten, considering its time frame and the number of applications it handles.
How was the initial setup?
Implementing CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla presented challenges as it is a new tool, requiring a steep learning curve initially. However, I found it to be easy to use after I acquired the necessary skills in six months, leading to an overall moderate experience.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
In terms of pricing for CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla, I find it moderate compared to SailPoint, but it is cheaper than Okta Identity Governance.
In terms of maintenance, there is an annual maintenance cost (AMC) package to consider. Daily management of API-related services, customer-related services, and deployment-related services is also necessary, which clients need to purchase.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
When comparing CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla to other solutions such as Okta, it is known for its cloud-first approach and managing modern SaaS applications, while SailPoint is a leader in IGA. Entra ID is a newer competitor in this space. If comparing CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla primarily with SailPoint IQ, I recommend CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla if a client wants to rapidly govern SaaS applications, employs a lot of AI for automating access reviews, and prefers a modern low-touch SaaS platform. If a client has a large enterprise with complex legacy applications needing extensive customization and governance, then they should choose SailPoint IQ.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is that if a client has a complex number of legacy applications, they should opt for SailPoint or Okta. However, if they prefer to use AI for automating access reviews or want a low-touch SaaS platform for rapid SaaS adoption, they should go for CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla. I would rate my overall experience with CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla a nine out of ten.
Identity governance has automated lifecycle management and strengthens compliance workflows
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is that it provides the platform which helps to improve our governance and the provisioning technology, and it also strengthens my identity lifecycle and compliance portfolio.
A specific example of how I use CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla in my daily work is that it has the identity governance modernization which helps to improve my organization, provides user automation, and assists significantly with compliance and audit, least privilege enforcement policies, and automates the joiner or leaver process of particular employees.
What is most valuable?
CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla offers best features including AI-driven identity governance, automated provisioning and de-provisioning, access review and compliance, cloud-native architecture, and lifecycle management, particularly identity lifecycle management.
The cloud-native architecture and automated provisioning features of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla help me a lot, especially to the HR department, when any employee comes into our organization or leaves; it automatically provides the proper access to them depending upon their designation and name, and it also automates the necessary credential management when employees leave.
CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla has positively impacted my organization through the collection of audit evidence, the compliance workflow, and user access reviews, which helps me significantly.
What needs improvement?
There are no additional improvements needed at this time.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my current field for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
For the scalability of CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla, I would rate it a nine.
How are customer service and support?
I would say the customer support for CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is responsive.
I would rate the customer support a nine.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I don't have clarity on previous solutions because I came in two years ago, and at that time CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla was being deployed; as far as I know, there was no software present prior.
We directly went for CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla.
How was the initial setup?
It took me within three days to deploy CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla from setup to initial go-live by deploying the base policies, and later on, we modified according to our needs.
The deployment was significantly quicker compared to past solutions.
What about the implementation team?
An example of how automation with CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla reduced time or effort for my team is that whenever a user is onboarding, it automatically chooses their role and applies the policies-based automation within a fraction of seconds, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
My team spends significantly less time on access reviews and evidence collection compared to before.
What was our ROI?
CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla has helped me a lot and constitutes a return on investment as well, but I cannot provide more details because I am from the technical department.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing were taken care of by the administration, so I do not have information about those details.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not purchase CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla through the AWS Marketplace.
CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla is from a different vendor.
What other advice do I have?
So far, everything is working well for me, and anything on the roadmap is definitely always welcome.
There is nothing to advise about CyberArk IGA Powered by Zilla; if you are aware of this particular solution, you have to check it out.
I would rate this review a ten.