IAM Compliance Requirements and Best Practices
Summary: IAM compliance is defined here as demonstrating that identity and access controls are enforced, not just documented, across users, applications, infrastructure, and non-human identities. The guide argues the gap between policy intent and runtime execution is where compliance failures and audit surprises emerge, largely in 'identity dark matter' - accounts, entitlements, and authentication flows outside centralized IAM visibility.
What's compelling: A quarterly access review can pass on paper while missing application-local accounts, service credentials, and legacy systems never integrated with the identity provider - and when attackers use legitimate credentials, identity provider logs alone rarely show what the identity did inside the application.
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