How do identity governance and access management systems differ?

Giving proper rights to data is imperative when it comes to securing sensitive information and performing access management.
Access management is the process by which a company identifies, tracks and controls which users have access to a particular system or application. Access management systems are more concerned with the assimilation of users, creating profiles and the process of controlling and streamlining the manual effort of granting users the proper access and roles. Having a process and the due diligence in place to create the roles, groups and permissions first is necessary with access management. Access management systems rely on the framework of which users have which rights and how that’s accomplished.

This is somewhat different from identity governance, in which administrators are more concerned about giving users new access to roles and alerting the security team to attempts by unauthorized users to access resources.

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