Where IAM governance begins.

Scaffold transforms IAM from enablement to enforcement—automating compliance, consistency, and least privilege from day one.

The Challenge

IAM governance starts too late.

Most organizations know what least privilege should look like — but not how to enforce it. Policies say “use dedicated admin accounts” or “limit access by role,” yet these intentions rarely translate into automated, consistent governance.

Building and maintaining an access model usually depends on manual effort — request queues, approvals, ad‑hoc groups — before a single user even touches the asset. Meanwhile, the governance layer gets lost between IAM enablement and audit remediation.

Common symptoms

  • Enablement without insight. IAM tools handle joiners, movers, leavers — but don’t reveal what permissions those groups actually grant.
  • Reactive visibility. Even when tools surface existing access, they can’t measure it against your access model or zero‑trust policy.
  • Governance gap. IAM teams should own the access architecture — roles, naming, PIM standards — yet no tool enforces it automatically.
  • Group sprawl. Shared groups span multiple assets, making reviews unclear and least privilege impossible to maintain. Over‑granting becomes the default.

In short:

IAM today is built for enablement, not governance — and that’s exactly where Scaffold begins.

Ask yourself…

  • When a new system or resource is created — who decides what access should exist before anyone gets it?
  • Are groups created ad hoc when assets appear, or automatically aligned to policy?
  • When assets are decommissioned, are their groups and roles automatically destroyed — or do they linger forever?
  • Have you enforced a universal naming standard — and do all legacy groups conform?
  • Has IAM defined a single, enforceable set of allowable permissions across systems?
  • While managers review who has access, how does IAM ensure the structure aligns to least privilege?
  • Does IAM have complete visibility into access models across every platform — or do DBAs and engineers own that knowledge?
  • How many hours are burned manually creating the same groups, roles, and PIM settings for every new asset?
  • Does least privilege still depend on people remembering to follow policy each time something new is created?

If any of these make you pause, Scaffold is for you.

The Scaffold approach to IAM Governance

Most tools audit who has access. Scaffold governs how that access exists.

Instead of asking who has access, Scaffold enforces how access is granted, ensuring every group, role, and permission follows your approved model by design.

1

Model your access once

Define the approved roles, group naming structure, and PIM requirements for each asset type.

2

Enforce at creation

Scaffold detects new assets and applies your model.

3

Stay compliant forever

Drift detection and self-healing keep everything aligned with zero trust.