Platform Overview

EmpowerID is a converged identity platform providing Identity Governance and Administration, Privileged Access Management, Authorization Management, and cloud security capabilities from a single codebase and unified identity warehouse. The platform is available as SaaS or for on-premise installation, with both deployment models offering identical functionality — differing only in infrastructure location and customer responsibilities.

EmpowerID manages all types of identities across an organization's environment: workforce employees, external partners, customers, and non-person accounts such as applications, devices, and service bots. All identity types are governed through the same policy engine, approval workflows, and audit framework regardless of the systems they originate from.

Core Capability Pillars

EmpowerID is organized around four integrated capability pillars. Because these pillars share a single identity warehouse, policy engine, and workflow engine, access decisions made in one pillar are immediately visible and enforceable across all others.

Identity Governance and Administration

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) covers the complete identity lifecycle — from onboarding new employees through managing transfers, role changes, and eventual offboarding — alongside the governance controls required to maintain compliant access over time.

Lifecycle management is automated through HR-driven policies and configurable workflows that provision and deprovision accounts across all connected systems in response to identity events. Access governance capabilities include access certification campaigns, separation of duties (SoD) policy enforcement, role management, and compliance reporting. Administrators can configure recertification schedules, define business roles that reflect organizational structure, and generate audit reports supporting regulatory compliance requirements.

For detailed information, see Identity Administration and Identity Governance.

Privileged Access Management and Cloud Security

Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls, monitors, and secures access to privileged accounts — those with elevated permissions to configure systems, manage users, or access sensitive data. EmpowerID's PAM solution is designed for multi-cloud and hybrid environments and is built around the Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) principle: privileged access is granted only when required, to authorized identities, for a defined duration.

EmpowerID provides two PAM deployment models. Advanced PAM uses an agentless and vaultless architecture built on EmpowerID's microservices and Kubernetes infrastructure. It integrates with IGA and Access Management systems to enable controlled privilege escalation, delegation management, and task-based automation. Advanced PAM also extends into Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM), providing visibility and governance over access entitlements in cloud environments. Basic PAM provides a traditional vault-based approach with centralized credential storage, granular access policies defining who can access credentials and under what conditions, and automated password rotation.

Both models include privileged session management, enabling session recording and monitoring for administrative activities requiring elevated access.

For detailed information, see Privileged Access Management.

Authorization Management

Authorization Management provides fine-grained control over access to applications, resources, and data through a hybrid policy engine supporting Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC). This combination allows organizations to define access based on roles, identity attributes, contextual conditions, or combinations of all three.

EmpowerID can function as a Policy Decision Point (PDP) for integrated external applications, enabling real-time authorization decisions that extend beyond the EmpowerID platform itself. The Application Gateway enables organizations to extend access governance to applications that do not natively support modern federation protocols. Delegated administration through Management Roles ensures that administrative permissions follow least-privilege principles, with precise scoping of resource types, permitted actions, and visibility boundaries.

For detailed information, see Authorization.

Connected Systems

EmpowerID connects to directories, HR systems, cloud platforms, business applications, security tools, and authentication protocols through a library of out-of-box connectors. The connector framework supports REST APIs, SCIM, LDAP, SQL stored procedures, flat files, and universal database connections. A Cloud Gateway Client enables secure, outbound-only communication with on-premise systems from cloud-hosted deployments.

For connector configuration guidance, see Connectors (OOB).