Capabilities / Domain
Identity Management & Lifecycle
Everything from how a customer creates an account to how they delete it. This domain is the spine of CIAM: registration, profile self-service, password and account recovery, and clean de-registration. Get it wrong and you leak users at signup and strand them at recovery; get it right and most support tickets never happen.
Core capabilities
- Registration
- Consumer self-creates an account with branded forms, validation, and bot defense. Capture
- Social / third-party login
- Sign in via Google, Apple, Facebook, and regional or enterprise identity providers. Capture · Engage
- Self-service profile management
- Consumer edits attributes, preferences, and MFA enrollment, or deletes the account. Manage
- Password self-service
- Forgot, change, and secure reset flows with hardened credential storage. Engage · Manage
- Account recovery
- Regain access after lost credentials, device, or factor. Engage
- Account de-registration
- Consumer-initiated delete with data minimization and right-to-be-forgotten. Manage
What to ask a CIAM vendor
- Can customers self-serve profile edits, MFA enrollment, and account deletion without a support ticket?
- What does recovery look like when a customer loses both their password and their second factor?
- Is account deletion a real data-minimizing delete with downstream propagation, or just a flag?
See how platforms compare on these capabilities in the vendor directory, or browse the full capabilities taxonomy.