Checklist

Choosing the Right Identity Provider: A Checklist for CIOs and CISOs

Preventing identity fraud requires controls across registration, authentication, account recovery, and ongoing access. This checklist helps teams assess the capabilities needed to secure customer, workforce, partner, and AI agent identities.

“Choosing the Right Identity Provider” outlines IAM capabilities for identity proofing, adaptive authentication, fine-grained access control, and continuous monitoring. It also covers automated identity lifecycle management, third-party onboarding, AI agent governance, and orchestration across legacy and cloud environments.

Key Takeaways

• How identity verification, liveness detection, and orchestration support secure registration.

• How adaptive MFA, session monitoring, and fine-grained access controls help prevent account takeover.

• How automated provisioning and least-privilege policies strengthen workforce and partner access.

• What unique identities, access boundaries, and monitoring provide for AI agent governance.

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