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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.