Compliance Management

Achieve Full Compliance with Clear Visibility and a Robust Audit Trail

Effective identity governance and compliance management begins with complete visibility into all identity-related activities. Clear audit processes help you understand what happened, when, and why. By gaining end-to-end oversight of access rights and controls, your organizations can confidently meet regulatory requirements, safeguard sensitive data, and maintain an audit-ready posture.

The Importance of Compliance

Staying compliant is more than just adhering to the law—it is about protecting your organization and maintaining trust. Companies face a growing array of regulations and standards—such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, SOX, DORA, CCPA, and NIS2—that mandate strict controls over sensitive data and IT systems. Falling short can lead to fines, reputational damage, and operational disruption.

Leverage Identity Governance to Strengthen Compliance

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) is a cornerstone of compliance. By governing identities and their associated access rights, organizations can demonstrate that controls are consistently followed. This ensures that only the right people have the right access at the right time.

Defining Your Compliance Objectives

Success in compliance starts by clarifying what you aim to achieve. Set goals in three key areas:

1. Prevention: Avoid fraud, errors, and breaches through internal training and updated procedures.
2. Detection: Improve the discovery of vulnerabilities with real-time alerts and systematic reviews.
3. Remediation: Prioritize risks, resolve system weaknesses, and enforce disciplinary measures if needed.

Clear communication of these goals ensures everyone understands their responsibilities and can measure progress effectively.

Building a Strong Compliance Foundation: The Lifecycle Approach

A systematic approach to compliance involves four key phases:

1. Assess: Conduct a gap analysis to identify non-compliant systems and potential vulnerabilities.
2. Prioritize: Organize issues by severity, business impact, and remediation effort.
3. Remediate: Patch vulnerabilities, update configurations, and align processes with regulations.
4. Monitor and Report: Regularly audit changes, record outcomes, and refine your compliance posture.

Harnessing Generative AI and Machine Learning

Advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) are making compliance workflows more intuitive, efficient, and secure. Integrating AI-driven models with collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams allows users to request access rights using natural language. Approvers benefit from ML insights—such as peer-group comparisons and historical request outcomes—enabling more informed, faster decisions. Over time, AI can automate low-risk decisions while maintaining human oversight. By balancing automation with transparency and ethical governance, organizations stay compliant and maintain trust.

Connecting and Integrating Tools for Unified Compliance

Organizations often rely on multiple security and compliance tools. By leveraging APIs, the Shared Signaling Framework (SSF), and Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP), you can integrate diverse solutions into a single platform. This unified view streamlines processes, enhances transparency, and improves responsiveness to regulatory demands.

Fostering a Security-First Culture Through Cyber Awareness Training

Compliance is not only about technology—it thrives within a culture of ongoing education and shared responsibility. Cyber awareness training empowers employees, contractors, and partners to identify and report phishing attempts, adopt best practices for handling sensitive data, and recognize social engineering tactics. Participants learn the value of strong, unique passwords, the use of password managers, and the importance of multi-factor authentication (MFA). As organizations move toward more secure, user-friendly authentication methods, training also highlights emerging password-less technologies built on open standards like WebAuthN. By regularly updating training programs to address evolving threats and regulatory demands, companies maintain a proactive, security-first culture that sustains compliance and enhances overall resilience.

How can Omada help?

Omada Identity Cloud serves as a comprehensive Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution, purpose-built to support organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with industry standards and regulations. By providing real-time visibility, automated workflows, and intelligent access control, Omada enables organizations to reduce complexity, minimize manual effort, and ensure continuous compliance.

1. Real-Time Visibility and Actionable Insights

Omada Identity Cloud delivers full transparency into access rights and user activities through intuitive dashboards and advanced analytics. Real-time visibility allows organizations to detect, investigate, and remediate compliance issues before they escalate. Comprehensive Audit trails and system logs provide unmistakable evidence of access requests, approvals, and changes—simplifying the audit process and ensuring regulatory alignment. This visibility not only supports compliance efforts but also strengthens your overall cybersecurity posture.

2. Automated Provisioning, Deprovisioning, and Access Reviews

Manual identity management processes are slow, error-prone, and resource-intensive. Omada eliminates these challenges by automating access provisioning, deprovisioning, and role-based access reviews. These automated workflows ensure that only the right users have the right access at the right time, supporting key compliance principles like “least privilege” and “need-to-know” access. Automated periodic access reviews also ensure that stale or unnecessary entitlements are revoked, helping to reduce excessive access and mitigate risk.

3. Audit-Ready Reporting and Evidence Collection

With Omada, organizations are always prepared for internal and external audits. Pre-built and customizable reports offer on-demand evidence of compliance with access control policies, segregation of duties (SoD) enforcement, and policy violations. These reports are audit-ready, ensuring rapid responses to auditor requests. Additionally, Omada’s Identity Analytics Audit Trail dashboard provides a comprehensive view of user activities and access changes, streamlining the audit process and simplifying compliance efforts. By maintaining an accurate, ongoing record of user activities and access changes, organizations can demonstrate compliance regulatory obligations.

4. Risk Assessment and Intelligent Access Controls

Omada incorporates advanced Identity Analytics to assess and prioritize risks tied to user access and entitlement. By identifying high-risk users, anomalous access behavior, and excessive permissions, Omada helps organizations proactively mitigate threats before they materialize. Automated risk scoring and data classification enable more informed access decisions, allowing compliance teams to focus on areas of highest impact.

5. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Least Privilege Enforcement

Omada supports role-based access control (RBAC) and enforces the principle of least privilege. By ensuring users only have access to the resources essential for their roles, Omada reduces the likelihood of privilege misuse, insider threats, and security breaches. This is a fundamental requirement in regulations like NIS2 and security frameworks like ISO 27001, which emphasize access control as a critical compliance pillar.

6. Automated Segregation of Duties (SoD) Enforcement

Segregation of duties (SoD) is a key compliance control to prevent users from having conflicting roles that could result in fraud or mismanagement. Omada automates SoD policy enforcement, continuously scanning access rights for toxic combinations. When violations are detected, automated workflows notify decision-makers to either resolve the issue or document a formal business justification.

7. Integration and Interoperability

Compliance does not happen in isolation. Omada Identity Cloud integrates with third-party systems, such as HR platforms, ticketing tools, and ITSM solutions, through APIs and modern connectivity standards like Shared Signaling Framework (SSF) and CEAP. This integration streamlines identity processes and ensures consistent enforcement of security policies across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

8. Compliance-Focused Automation and Efficiency Gains

Automation is a central tenet of Omada Identity Cloud, reducing manual workloads and allowing IT and compliance teams to focus on strategic initiatives. Automated certifications, SoD checks, and access request approvals remove human bottlenecks, reduce errors, and support continuous compliance. By standardizing compliance-related processes, Omada accelerates issue resolution, reduces operational burdens, and minimizes audit preparation time.

9. Continuous Monitoring and Proactive Compliance Management

Instead of reactive audits and after-the-fact reviews, Omada enables continuous monitoring of access rights, roles, and user activity. With automated alerts for anomalies and potential policy violations, compliance teams can act quickly to address issues in real time. This proactive approach not only supports internal governance but also aligns with regulatory requirements like ISO 27001’s requirement for continuous improvement.

10. Supporting Modern Regulatory Requirements (ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, GDPR)

Modern regulatory frameworks like NIS2 and ISO 27001 emphasize the need for senior management involvement, accountability, and demonstrable compliance. Omada Identity Cloud supports these obligations by providing the necessary reporting, visibility, and control mechanisms. The platform also facilitates compliance with GDPR’s “right to be forgotten” and data access rights, helping organizations meet the most stringent regulatory demands.

By leveraging Omada Identity Cloud, organizations achieve a unified, proactive approach to compliance. This not only reduces risk and strengthens cybersecurity posture but also minimizes audit fatigue and operational overhead. Through automation, visibility, and advanced access controls, Omada simplifies compliance and positions organizations for long-term regulatory success.