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Workforce Access Governance

Give humans the right access — and prove it, every day.

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Workforce Access Governance
Govern · Authenticate · Integrate
Overview

Most hackers don't break in — they log in. Attackers use valid credentials, dormant accounts and over-provisioned access far more often than exploits, and every audit seems to find the same things: leavers with live accounts, privileged access nobody can explain, and an access request process held together by tickets and goodwill.

Organisations that get identity right treat it as a lifecycle, not a login screen: access is granted from roles, changes automatically when people join, move and leave, and certification campaigns produce audit evidence as a by-product of business as usual. Avocado designs the governance, implements and integrates the platforms, and automates the lifecycle so the controls keep working after we leave.

Who is this for?

You'll recognise the situation

Many breaches in an organisation would come from valid credentials, dormant accounts and over-provisioned access, not exploits.

Every audit finds the same things: leavers with live accounts, privileged access nobody can explain, and an access request process held together by tickets and goodwill.

You want access granted from roles, not copied from a colleague, and certification campaigns that produce real audit evidence rather than rubber-stamping.

You need phishing-resistant MFA and modern authentication extended across your whole estate, including legacy applications.

What's included

Govern, authenticate and integrate identity

Identity Governance

Govern who has access to what, why they have it, and the evidence to prove it.

Access Management

Manage how your workforce authenticates and uses access — single sign-on, MFA, and adaptive policies.

IDAM Transformation and Integration

Select, implement and integrate the identity platforms your lifecycle runs on.

In detail

How each capability works

01

Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)

Identity governance & administration (IGA) usually fails the same way: a well-designed role model and certification process that nobody can operate, so it decays into rubber-stamping. We design governance that runs — role models grounded in how your business actually works, certification campaigns sized so reviewers make real decisions, and as much of the lifecycle automated as your estate allows.

Our approach
  • Joiner, mover and leaver lifecycle design and automation, driven from your HR source of truth.
  • Role design and role-based access control with roles built from business functions, not accumulated entitlements.
  • Access certification and recertification campaigns, with results that stand up as audit evidence.
  • Segregation of duties rules and violation detection for your high-risk combinations.
  • Orphaned, dormant and shared account discovery and remediation, and identity data quality remediation.
  • Access reporting and audit evidence aligned to the frameworks your GRC program works to.
02

Access Management

Access management is a user experience problem wearing a security badge. If authentication is painful, people work around it, and the control fails. We design access so the secure path is the easy path: single sign-on that removes passwords from daily work, phishing-resistant MFA where the risk warrants it, and adaptive policies that challenge unusual access instead of punishing routine access.

Our approach
  • Single sign-on and federation across cloud and on-premises applications.
  • Multi-factor authentication uplift, including phishing-resistant and passwordless methods.
  • Conditional and adaptive access policies that challenge by risk, not by habit.
  • Authorisation design: least privilege access to applications and data, enforced at the point of access.
  • Legacy application integration, so older systems join the SSO estate rather than escaping it.
  • Access policy design for partners, contractors and third parties.
03

IDAM Transformation and Integration

IDAM programs rarely fail at the product, they fail at the hundred integrations behind it: the HR feed that's almost right, the legacy app with no API, the role data nobody owns. Integration is Avocado's DNA. We bring more than two decades of integration and automation discipline to identity: vendor-neutral platform selection, honest sequencing, and integration patterns your teams can maintain.

Our approach
  • IDAM strategy, target operating model and business case.
  • Current-state assessment and roadmap: what to fix, consolidate and retire, in what order.
  • Vendor-neutral platform evaluation and selection across leading identity platforms.
  • Platform implementation, migration and consolidation of overlapping identity systems.
  • Integration with HR sources, directories, applications and infrastructure, including the legacy estate.
  • Lifecycle automation, self-service workflows, and operating model, runbooks and handover.
How do we deliver it?

Assess, design, implement, automate

01

Assess

Assess your current identity estate: what's fragmented, what's overlapping, and what should be fixed, consolidated or retired.

02

Design

Design role models grounded in how your business actually works, and vendor-neutral platform recommendations that fit your estate and budget.

03

Implement

Implement single sign-on, MFA, conditional access, and lifecycle automation integrated with your HR source of truth.

04

Automate

Automate certification campaigns and joiner-mover-leaver workflows so governance runs as business as usual, not a periodic scramble.

Book a discovery

Book a discovery with our cyber team

Tell us your identity pain point — joiner-mover-leaver chaos, audit findings, privileged sprawl — and we'll tell you where to start.

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What tools and technology do we use?

Vendor-neutral, integration-led

We're vendor-neutral across identity governance and access management platforms, selecting and implementing to fit your estate and budget rather than a reseller relationship. Delivery draws on more than two decades of systems integration experience — the discipline IDAM programs live or die on — covering single sign-on and federation, phishing-resistant and passwordless MFA, and conditional access policy engines across cloud and on-premises applications.

What outcomes can you expect?

What you walk away with

Answer "who has access to what, and why" in minutes, with evidence.
Remove the password attacks that drive most compromises.
Cut audit findings by making certification a routine that works, not a scramble.
Consolidate overlapping identity systems into one estate you can actually govern.
Proof · Case study

Enterprise Secrets Management

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How is this engagement structured?

Not sure whether to fix the governance or the platform first? Talk to us about an identity health check. Contact us for a tailored quote.

FAQ

Common questions

What is workforce access governance?

It's the discipline of governing who has access to what across your workforce, through role design, certification campaigns, joiner-mover-leaver automation, and audit-ready evidence — plus the authentication and platform work that makes it operable day to day.

How is this different from Modern Privileged Management?

This page covers workforce identity governance and everyday access management. Privileged access — including administrator accounts, service accounts, elevated permissions — is covered separately on Modern Privileged Management.

Are you tied to a specific identity platform vendor?

No — we're vendor-neutral. Platform selection and implementation is based on what fits your estate and budget, not a reseller relationship.

Do we need phishing-resistant MFA?

It's an explicit obligation for eligible critical infrastructure entities under the enhanced CIRMP Rules. Outside that scope it remains strong practice — talk to us about whether the obligation applies to you.

Can this integrate with legacy applications that don't support modern authentication?

Yes — legacy application integration is designed to bring older systems into the SSO estate rather than leaving them to escape modern controls.

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