Security teams are rebuilding identity reviews around contractor access

Temporary access is no longer temporary in practice

Many organizations still approve contractor access in a rush and clean it up later. The problem is that later rarely arrives on schedule when teams are moving across multiple vendors and internal tools.

Security leaders are responding by treating identity review as a recurring operating process rather than a quarterly audit exercise.

The new baseline

The strongest programs are linking system access to business context. Teams want to know who requested access, what project the access supports, when it should expire, and which manager owns the review.

• Documented expiration windows
• Named access owners
• Clear approval chains for high-risk systems