SaaS Access Management: How to Govern Identities Across Cloud Applications
SaaS access management is where many enterprises lose visibility: employees, contractors, AI agents, service accounts, and OAuth integrations all hold permissions across applications that IT may never have approved. This article explores how access governance reduces unauthorized access, limits data exposure, supports compliance, and improves visibility into identities operating inside and outside the identity provider. It also covers key access control models, OAuth and integration risks, lifecycle management, non-human identity governance, security metrics, and the practices that reduce identity risk at scale.