Maintaining Access and Security Settings During Leave of Absence

When an employee goes on a leave of absence—whether it's medical, parental, or another type—organizations often need to temporarily pause access without losing critical configuration data. The Identity Panel Suite by SoftwareIDM is designed to handle these scenarios with precision and flexibility. During a leave of absence, the system preserves all access-related configurations, ensuring a smooth return to work without the need for manual reconfiguration.

What Is Maintained During a Leave of Absence?

While a user is marked as inactive or on leave, the Identity Panel Suite securely retains:

• Group Memberships: Existing group associations are stored, even if access is temporarily revoked.

• Application Entitlements: Rights to systems and applications (such as SaaS tools, shared drives, and internal platforms) are maintained and can be automatically reinstated.

• Email Settings: Attributes like mailbox permissions, forwarding rules, and aliases are preserved to ensure continuity upon return.

This is achieved through Identity Panel’s stateful identity lifecycle management and Time Traveler feature, which keeps a continuous history of all identity-related changes. Users can be temporarily disabled or have their access restricted, but their roles, entitlements, and settings are retained in the system.

Business Value of This Approach

• Operational Efficiency: Eliminates the need for IT to manually reassign entitlements after leave.

• Compliance Support: Maintains a full audit trail of user access, supporting internal controls and external audits.

• Improved User Experience: Employees returning from leave regain access seamlessly—exactly as they left it.

By retaining access configurations during leaves of absence, Identity Panel supports secure, policy-driven identity governance without adding administrative overhead.