Insights on Identity Governance

The Complete Entra ID Offboarding Checklist for IT Teams

Somebody quit on Friday. Or got let go. Either way, it's Monday now and you're not 100% sure their access has been fully revoked. Their Entra ID account is disabled, probably. But what about that shared mailbox? The Teams channels? That Azure resource group they had contributo...

How to Automate User Onboarding in Microsoft Entra ID

Picture this. It's Monday morning. You've got three new hires starting today, and you're staring at a spreadsheet trying to remember which security groups the marketing team needs, what licenses to assign, and whether anyone ever documented the process for setting up a shared ...

Why Most IGA Solutions Are Overkill for Companies Under 500 People

Let me paint a picture you might recognize. Your company is growing. Maybe you're at 150 employees, maybe 300. The manual way of managing user accounts is clearly not cutting it anymore. Someone suggests you need an IGA solution (Identity Governance and Administration), and su...

NIS2 Is Coming: What Nordic Companies Need to Know About Identity Governance

If you work in IT at a Nordic company and haven't heard about NIS2 yet, buckle up. The EU's updated Network and Information Security Directive is already in effect, and the national implementations across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland are rolling out. For a lot of mid-s...

SOC 2 Access Reviews: A Practical Guide for IT Managers

Your company is going through a SOC 2 audit. Congratulations, sort of. It means you're growing, your customers are asking for it, and now someone has to actually demonstrate that you control who has access to what.

How to Set Up Dynamic Security Groups in Entra ID (Without Losing Your Mind)

Dynamic security groups in Entra ID are one of those features that sound amazing in concept and then make you want to throw your laptop out the window when you actually try to configure them. The idea is simple: instead of manually adding and removing people from groups, you w...

Active Directory and Entra ID: Managing Identities Across Both

You've got on-premises Active Directory. You've also got Microsoft Entra ID (the thing they used to call Azure AD before the rebrand confused everyone). Some of your apps run locally, some are in the cloud, and your user accounts exist in both places.

Adcyma vs SailPoint: What Actually Makes Sense for Your Company Size

If you've been researching identity governance solutions, you've almost certainly come across SailPoint. They're one of the biggest names in the space, and for good reason. They've been doing this since 2005, they're publicly traded, and they serve some of the largest organiza...

Entra ID Licensing Is a Mess (Here Is What You Actually Need)

I have a theory that Microsoft's licensing page for Entra ID was designed by someone who gets paid per confused customer. There is no other explanation for how this got so complicated.

How We Built Identity Governance That Deploys in a Day, Not Six Months

Six months. That's the typical implementation timeline you'll hear from enterprise identity governance vendors. Some are honest and say nine to twelve months. A few particularly brave salespeople will promise "as little as three months" and then quietly extend the project plan...

ISO 27001 User Access Control: Meeting the Requirements Without Enterprise Tools

So your company decided to pursue ISO 27001 certification. Maybe a big customer required it, maybe your board wanted it, or maybe someone read a LinkedIn post about it and now it's on the roadmap. Whatever the reason, you're here now, looking at Annex A and wondering how much ...

The Identity Governance Metrics Nobody Tracks (But Should)

I asked a customer recently how they measure whether their identity governance is working.

NIS2 Compliance Checklist for Swedish and Nordic Companies

You've heard the buzz about NIS2. You know it affects your company somehow. But when you try to figure out exactly what you need to do, you end up in a maze of EU directive text, national transposition documents, and vendor whitepapers that all seem to recommend buying their p...

The Hidden Cost of Manual Onboarding (And How to Fix It)

Let's do some math. Not the fun kind, but the kind that makes you reconsider how your IT team spends its time.

Adcyma vs Saviynt: Identity Governance for Mid-Market Companies

Saviynt has been making waves in the identity governance space, particularly as a cloud-native alternative to legacy platforms like SailPoint IdentityIQ. Their pitch is compelling: a converged platform that handles identity governance, privileged access, application access, an...

Adcyma vs One Identity: Right-Sized Identity Governance

One Identity has been in the identity management space for decades, originally as part of Quest Software, then Dell, and now as a standalone company under the Quest umbrella. Their flagship product, One Identity Manager, is one of the most established IGA platforms on the market.

Adcyma vs Doing It Manually in Entra ID: When Native Tools Stop Being Enough

If you're managing user identities in Microsoft Entra ID using the admin portal, maybe some dynamic groups, and a onboarding checklist on a wiki somewhere — you're not alone. That's how most mid-market IT teams operate. And honestly, for a while it works fine.

10 Reasons to Choose Adcyma

Connecting Your HR System to Entra ID (Without Losing Your Mind)

I had a customer last year who told me their previous vendor spent five months trying to connect their HR system to Entra ID. Five months. The project involved three external consultants, a custom middleware layer, and a 40-page requirements document.

Adcyma vs PowerShell Scripts: When to Stop Scripting Your Identity Management

If you're reading this, you're probably already running PowerShell scripts for user management. Maybe you've built an onboarding script that creates users, assigns groups, and sets licenses. Maybe you have an offboarding script that disables accounts and removes memberships. M...