The IT Nerd

For most organizations, user access reviews are a compliance ritual that’s painful by default. Spreadsheets get circulated. Managers bulk-approve without reading. Stale permissions linger long after employees change roles or move on. And when audit season arrives, teams scramble to reconstruct a paper trail that was never built to hold up under scrutiny.

The standard prescription has often been to buy a standalone Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform. But that means months of implementation, a parallel system of record to maintain, and — still — the same rubber-stamped approvals that made the process unreliable in the first place.

There’s a better starting point: the identity data you already have.

The Gap Between Visibility and Control

Most security and GRC teams have some visibility into who has access to what — pulled from identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID or Okta, HR systems, or SaaS app exports. But that data typically lives in silos: disconnected sources that require manual effort to consolidate, reconcile, and act on. The picture exists, but it’s fragmented, and turning it into something auditable is where the process breaks down.

The problem has never been access to the data. It’s been turning that visibility into an auditable, repeatable control without bolting on another product to do it.

Certification Campaigns That Launch in Minutes

DataBee User Access Reviews (UAR) is a new capability built directly on the identity data already flowing through DataBee’s OCSF-based pipelines. Security, IT, and GRC teams can launch certification campaigns without procuring or integrating a standalone IGA platform — and without any implementation project to get there.

What that looks like in practice:

• Campaigns at scale from day one. UAR pulls consolidated identity data from sources like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, so there’s no manual export or data migration required to get started.
• Automatic routing to the right people. Access decisions go directly to each user’s direct manager, with a simple SSO-enabled approval experience that requires no training.
• Real organizational visibility. Completion status tracks across the full org hierarchy, so leaders can see where reviews are stalled and escalate accordingly — without chasing down individual emails.
• An audit trail that’s built in, not bolted on. Every decision, escalation, and state change is recorded in an immutable archive. Completed campaigns are retained permanently for compliance reporting, with CSV and JSON export built in.
• Remediation that doesn’t create a second mess. When a campaign closes, DataBee automatically groups remediation workflows by application — so IT teams work at the app level, not item by item.

For organizations that already have a standalone IGA solution, DataBee’s integrations with leading IGA vendors mean UAR complements what’s already in place rather than replacing it.

Raising the Bar on Review Quality

Getting campaigns done faster matters. But so does making the reviews themselves more meaningful — which is where most IGA tools quietly fall short.

DataBee UAR addresses review integrity directly. Smart deduplication ensures each user-application relationship is reviewed exactly once, regardless of how access was granted. Routing happens at the individual level to prevent the blanket group approvals that give auditors pause. And confirmation-first communications help reduce the risk of errors when sending bulk notifications to approvers.

The goal isn’t just to produce an audit artifact. It’s to produce one that reflects actual human decisions about actual access.

From Point-in-Time Compliance to Continuous Control

User Access Reviews is the first compliance workflow natively executed within the DataBee platform, but the intent is bigger than a single feature.

Like DataBee’s Continuous Controls Monitoring solution, DataBee User Access Reviews is part of a growing set of native workflows built on the security data fabric. These use cases represent a shift away from point-in-time compliance checkboxes toward something more durable: continuous, data-driven assurance that doesn’t require a new vendor every time you need a new control.

DataBee User Access Reviews is licensed separately and available now.

See for yourself how UAR works by requesting a demo.