Legacy IGA Systems Are Failing: Time for a New Era with Dynamic Policy Management
Legacy IGA systems were built for a different time — when access was relatively static, apps lived on-prem, and automation wasn’t a core necessity. Today, you need something better — dynamic policy management through autonomous identity.
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In the last few years, we’ve witnessed a massive acceleration in the complexity of enterprise IT environments. The number of apps has exploded 10x. Human and non-human identities have multiplied 10x. And the challenge of managing access — securely, efficiently, and at scale — has become one of the most urgent priorities for every organization.
Yet your teams are not growing at 100x to counter this issue.
Most identity governance solutions haven’t kept up.
Legacy IGA systems were built for a different time — when access was relatively static, apps lived on-prem, and automation wasn’t a core necessity. Today, these systems are struggling under the weight of manual processes, slow deployments, and disconnected environments. They create as much work as they solve.
It’s time for something better. Something autonomous.
Why does it matter
Today, the stakes are higher:
- Identity-related attacks continue to be #1 attack vector
- Credentials are routinely stolen.
- Overprovisioned users become easy targets or give way to insider threats.
- Rubberstamping accesses and stale policies leave gaps attackers can exploit.
- Machine identities and AI agents outnumber humans 50:1 and will continue to explode.
Meet The Autonomous Identity Platform
At Lumos, we believe the future of identity isn’t just about managing access — it’s about automating and optimizing it. That’s why we’ve built the industry’s first Autonomous Identity Platform — powered by AI, deeply integrated into your environment, and designed to adapt and improve over time.
We’re introducing two key capabilities that make this vision real:
- Autonomous Policy Management
- Lifecycle Automation Across Your Entire Identity Ecosystem
1. Autonomous Policy Management
Instead of relying on static roles and guesswork, Lumos uses AI to continuously analyze how access is being assigned and used across your organization. It surfaces hidden patterns, recommends natural-language role definitions, and suggests policy changes that align with your actual business needs.
It’s not just automation — it’s adaptive intelligence. It’s a system that learns from your environment and gets smarter with every decision. This frees up your team to oversee critical tasks and strategic initiatives, rather than babysitting your IGA solution. Our platform:
- Analyzes real-world access patterns to discover latent role structures and anomalies.
- Generates natural language role descriptions and recommends policy adjustments.
- Provides full transparency with document-backed explanations for every recommendation.
- Continuously refines policies based on event-driven triggers and feedback loops.
The result: Tighter security, less compliance burden, and faster audits — all on autopilot.
2. Lifecycle Automation Across Your Entire Identity Ecosystem
Before Lumos, you needed entire teams to manage role definitions and access policies. Managing joiner, mover, and leaver workflows across dozens (or hundreds) of apps is a massive challenge for IT teams. With Lumos, these workflows are now fully automated — integrated with your IdP, HRIS, and SaaS apps. That means faster onboarding, cleaner and more secure offboarding, and zero-touch provisioning at scale.
Lumos platform:
- Deploys dynamic, configurable workflows triggered by key events (e.g., start date, role changes).
- Maintains real-time visibility into every lifecycle step and approval.
- Provisions accounts automatically across IdPs (Okta, Microsoft Entra, Active Directory), email providers and apps like Salesforce, Google Workspace, and more.
- Stay always up-to-date with auto-detection of attribute changes and seamless application stack updates.
The result: 7x faster deployment, 80% lower cost of ownership without resource burden.
Real-World Impact: More Than Just Security
As Matt Pecorelli, Deputy CISO at Mars, put it:
“Hackers don’t break in anymore. They log in. Lumos helps us automate policy creation and lifecycle management so we can stay ahead of threats, simplify user access reviews, and make JML workflows run on autopilot.”
And it's not just about stopping threats. Lumos helps organizations optimize IT spend, uncover shadow IT, and take control of per-license costs — directly improving profitability.
As our CEO, Andrej Safundzic, says:
“It’s not something that just saves time and headaches — it directly impacts the company’s bottom line.”
Ready to Experience Autonomous Identity?
Learn more about how Lumos is redefining Identity Governance — and why Autonomous Identity is the future.
- Explore Autonomous Identity
- Read the full blog
- Watch the demo
If this sounds exciting, book a demo with Lumos today and see how identity can finally keep up with the way you work.
