Term · 27. Emerging Categories 2024-2026
Identity Hygiene
Definition
Discipline of maintaining clean, accurate, and current identity data and entitlements. Practices include: dormant account cleanup, orphan account remediation, role mining and consolidation, privilege right-sizing, stale permission removal, and MFA coverage enforcement. The IDM equivalent of infrastructure hygiene (patching, configuration baselines).
- Synonyms
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- Identity Data Hygiene
- IAM Hygiene
- Application
- Regulatory: Gartner Magic Quadrant / Hype Cycle
- Standards & regulations
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- Gartner
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