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Role & Access Governance

NEXIS brings role design, access governance, recertification, and Segregation of Duties controls into one continuous process. It replaces fragmented reviews, static role models, and manual approval chains with analytics, governance workflows, and integrated control mechanisms that work across IGA, PAM, SaaS, and legacy environments.

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Why Role and Access Governance Needs a New Approach

Hybrid IT, SaaS sprawl, and growing regulatory requirements make static role models and campaign-based access control harder to sustain. Manual recertifications, e-mail approvals, and spreadsheet-driven role maintenance do not scale and make audit-ready governance difficult. NEXIS addresses this with a continuous model that combines role analytics, approval workflows, recertifications, and SoD validation.

Risk Indicators
  • Fragmented and outdated role models
  • Toxic combinations of roles and permissions
  • Manual review and approval effort
  • SoD conflicts detected too late
  • Low traceability across changes and approvals
  • Audit pressure caused by weak governance processes

What Role and Access Governance Achieves

A structured governance model improves role quality, reduces operational effort, and keeps access decisions aligned with policy and actual entitlements.

Business-Ready Role Models

Establish roles that reflect real usage, business structure, and authorization needs.

Continuous Access Governance

Continuous Access GovernanceApply configurable conflict matrices aligned to internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Built-In Risk Validation

Embed SoD checks and policy validation into design, approvals, and recertifications.

Audit-Ready Decision Flows

Maintain traceable reviews, approvals, and governance documentation across the lifecycle.

From Static Role Models to Continuous Governance

NEXIS turns role and access governance into a continuous process. Role mining, analytics, workflow automation, recertification, and SoD controls work together to keep access structures effective over time. This supports everything from role discovery and cleanup to approval routing, exception handling, and ongoing optimization.

Built On
  • Role discovery based on analytics, clustering, and pattern recognition
  • Time- and event-triggered recertifications
  • Centrally managed governance documentation with version history

Core Capabilities

Identify clusters, outliers, and risky entitlements to derive scalable, business-ready roles from actual authorization data. Support static and dynamic RBAC, ABAC, and policy-based approaches.
Continuously improve role quality through analytics, guided adjustments, and usage-based insights, reducing exceptions and manual overrides.
Run repeatable, risk-based reviews across roles, accounts, and entitlements with reminders, escalations, and configurable approval logic. Replace static campaigns with structured, risk-aware recertifications aligned with live entitlements and governance rules.
Route decisions dynamically across business, IT, risk, and compliance roles. Support delegation and reassignment to avoid bottlenecks. Support scalable decision flows for access requests, entitlement changes, and exception handling with full traceability.
Apply preventive and detective SoD checks during role design, access requests, and periodic reviews with flexible rule sets across multiple systems. Detect and prevent conflicts early, not only during audit cycles.
Keep roles, entitlements, criticality, and SoD classifications documented with target/actual comparisons and audit-proof version control.
Deliver review tasks and approvals directly in Teams to shorten lead times and improve completion rates.

How Role & Access Governance
Creates Operational Impact

This capability supports multiple governance objectives across IAM and GRC domains.

IAM Modernization

Legacy role models and fragmented entitlement structures often slow down IAM transformation.

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Role and access governance supports:

  • Role rationalization
  • Entitlement cleanup
  • Governance-ready target models
  • Controlled migration preparation

Result:

Cleaner role structures and faster modernization with reduced governance risk.

Access Reviews

Cleaner role structures and faster modernization with reduced governance risk.

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Role and access governance supports:

  • Structured review campaigns
  • Clear ownership and accountability
  • Repeatable approval workflows
  • Traceable review decisions

Result:

More efficient reviews, better completion rates, and stronger auditability.

Identity Risk & SoD

Conflicting access rights and weak role structures increase operational and compliance risk.

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Role and access governance supports:

  • Role-based SoD validation
  • Detection of toxic combinations
  • Risk-aware access decisions
  • Continuous governance controls

Result:

Identity becomes part of active risk governance, not an isolated IT process.

Strengthen Role and Access Governance Across the Lifecycle

See how NEXIS supports role discovery, approval workflows, recertification, and SoD control in one continuous governance model.

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