Policy-Based Authorization
Authorization Management
for Enterprise IAM
Unify enterprise identity and access management with policy-driven authorization—visual PBAC and RBAC that automate group membership, approvals, and least-privilege access across apps and partners.
The EmpowerID Difference
Why Organizations Choose EmpowerID
What's different vs. the usual vendors.
Policy-Based Engine
Policy-based automation (RBAC/ABAC) that continuously enforces what you should have—not event-driven reactions.
No-Code Configuration
Visual policy creation with unlimited variations per event. Change in hours, not months—no fragile scripts.
Governance Built-In
Who can create policies, dual operation (role owner + group owner), self-service with SoD checks.
Partner Management
Built-in without separate products (unlike SailPoint). Onboard suppliers and customers into your IAM platform.
How Policy-Based Authorization Works
Three pillars working together 24/7 to maintain perfect authorization compliance
1. Know What You Have
Real-time visibility into every group, membership, and access assignment across all systems.
- • Continuous inventory reconciliation
- • Multi-cloud & on-prem discovery
- • Shadow/Orphan detection
- • Group membership tracking
2. Define What You Should Have
Policy-driven definitions of ideal state: roles, groups, entitlements, and access patterns.
- • Role-based access control (RBAC)
- • Attribute-based policies (ABAC)
- • Business/location/org-based rules
- • SoD compliance templates
3. Automatically Enforce
Continuous comparison and automatic remediation. Violations detected and corrected in hours, not months.
- • Automated group membership
- • Policy violation auto-remediation
- • Continuous reconciliation
- • Real-time audit trails
Event-Driven vs. Policy-Based Authorization
Why traditional access management keeps you in reactive mode
Event-Driven Access Management
THE OLD WAY
Access Request Occurs
Execute Group Assignment
Hope It Worked
Discover Problems in Audit
Too late!
The Cost of Reactive Access Management:
- • Manual group assignments lead to errors
- • Stale memberships accumulate over time
- • Always reacting to problems after they occur
- • Audit panic when violations surface
Policy-Based Authorization
THE FUTURE
Continuous Inventory
Policy-Defined State
Automated Reconciliation
Always Compliant
Zero drift, audit-ready
Proven Results:
- • 100% policy-driven group assignments
- • Sub-second policy evaluation at scale
- • Always in control with continuous enforcement
- • Real-time audit trails for every change
Core Capabilities
1 Automated Group Membership ⌄
- • Policy-based automation: Simple policy—if you do these jobs in this location, you should have these groups. People get that.
- • Business/location/org-based rules: They understand the tree. More flexible than competitors—we go beyond set groups.
- • Dynamic group creation: Automate creation, management, and deletion of enterprise groups based on data-driven policies.
- • Hierarchical groups: Trigger automated workflows from business policies—when your setup changes, your groups do too.
- • Continuous enforcement: Detect drift and reconcile to policy—continuously, not periodically.
Why it matters: Eliminate manual group assignments, reduce errors, and maintain perfect compliance automatically.
2 Access Requests & Self-Service ⌄
- • Self-service group shopping: One-stop IAM Shop brings a unique experience to the group access request process. Simple, easy to use.
- • SoD violation checks: Self-service is always a plus. If you have this group and then you can request that, we do SoD violation checks automatically.
- • Empowers business users: Grant business users the ability to manage their own groups and applications.
- • Workflow integration: Seamlessly integrates with your approvals process—no-code configuration.
- • Delegated administration: Single security model solves the delegated admin problem without compromising security or speed.
Why it matters: Reduce IT tickets, empower users, and maintain governance—all with self-service that checks SoD automatically.
3 Partner Identity Management ⌄
- • Built-in without separate products: Unlike SailPoint which needs separate products, EmpowerID includes partner management out-of-the-box.
- • Multi-tenant security: Onboard suppliers and customers into your IAM platform. No additional customizations, not different products.
- • Delegated administration: Partner admins can do lifecycle automations, birthright automations, recertification, and self-service.
- • Isolated boundaries: Complete multi-tenant partner management solution with necessary security controls.
- • B2B/B2C support: Support for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer identity onboarding.
Why it matters: Partner identity management is built into the platform, so teams can govern external identities without separate products or one-off customizations.
4 Governance Around Policies ⌄
- • Who can create policies: Governance built-in—who should be, which group should be in those policies.
- • Dual operation: Cover both the owner of the roles and the owner of the group. Unique governance capability.
- • Policy lifecycle management: Create, approve, update, and retire policies with full audit trails.
- • Compliance templates: Pre-built SoD templates and business function policies.
- • Evidence everywhere: Every decision is policy-referenced (who/what/when) for audit.
Why it matters: Policy governance gives sophisticated teams clear ownership, change control, and audit evidence around every authorization decision.
5 No-Code Workflow Integration ⌄
- • Visual policy creation: Configure authorization policies visually—no code required, unlimited variations.
- • "If This, Then That" workflows: Handle the 1% edge cases with visual workflows—no fragile scripts.
- • Multi-step sequences: Complex approvals, timing, dependencies, and business logic—all configured visually.
- • Change without code: Update flows safely across environments; no brittle customizations to rework on upgrades.
- • Unlimited variations: Per event, per organization—configure visually, change in hours not months.
Why it matters: Processes fit your org and evolve fast—without costly custom code. Better Together: Desired State handles 99%, No-Code Workflows handle 1%.
Business Impact
Reduced Access Requests
Automated group membership eliminates manual requests. Self-service with SoD checks reduces IT tickets.
Faster Access
Policy-based automation grants access in minutes, not days. Continuous enforcement ensures compliance.
Better Governance
Governance around policies, dual operation, and real-time audit trails. Always audit-ready.
FAQs
How is this different from traditional group management?
We use a policy-based engine—automation that continuously enforces what you should have, not event-driven reactions. Others trigger tasks and hope they stick. We maintain a target state and remediate drift automatically.
Can we handle partner identities without separate products?
Yes—unlike SailPoint which needs separate products, EmpowerID includes partner management built-in. Onboard suppliers and customers into your IAM platform without additional customizations.
How flexible are the policies?
More flexible than competitors. Most think of it as a set group—we go beyond that. Business/location/org-based rules, hierarchical groups, and unlimited variations per event.
What about governance around policies?
We uniquely have governance around those policies—who can create policies, which groups should be in those policies. Dual operation covers both the owner of roles and the owner of the group.
Proven at Enterprise Scale
Customer success metrics from Fortune 500 authorization management deployments
Analyst Recognition
Industry recognition for authorization management excellence
KuppingerCole Leadership
Policy-Based Access Management (PBAM)
Only Quadruple Leader in Overall, Product, Innovation, Market
Strategic Endorsement
Executive View Report
Governance-first approach to authorization
