IAM is the framework that controls who can access which resources — covering authentication (verifying identity), authorization (defining permissions via RBAC or ABAC), lifecycle management (provisioning and deprovisioning), and audit logging. It’s the operational engine behind Zero Trust and is required by frameworks like NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.

RBAC grants permissions by role, so an identity inherits exactly the access its role needs — nothing more. Attribute-based access control (ABAC) adds context, granting or denying access based on attributes like department, location, device, or time. UnityOne AI supports both, with fine-grained, flexible permissions and segregation of duties.

Enormously. Microsoft reports that multi-factor authentication blocks 99.9% of automated credential attacks — and with the large majority of breaches tracing back to compromised credentials, it’s the single highest-impact control you can deploy.

Traditional MFA over SMS or push can be bypassed by adversary-in-the-middle phishing. Phishing-resistant methods — FIDO2 hardware keys and passkeys — cryptographically bind the credential to the real site’s origin, so even if a user clicks a phishing link, the login fails because the domain doesn’t match.

Yes. Federate authentication through your identity providers using SAML or OIDC with single sign-on, and integrate natively with LDAP and Active Directory — so you get one point of access control across the directories and apps you already run.

Yes. Machine identities, workload identities, service accounts, and AI-agent identities are governed alongside your people — with managed secrets, key rotation, and no standing credentials — closing the fastest-growing and most-overlooked gap in modern identity.