Takeaway Points:
Traditional IAM was built for a static, point-in-time world — one-time onboarding, one-time authentication, one-time access review. Identities, permissions and risk are not static, so a fabric built on single “moments of assurance” quickly becomes stale
Continuous Identity is the idea that identity data, decisions and enforcement should be “always on” — continually re-evaluated against real-time context rather than refreshed on an annual or quarterly cycle
The joiner-mover-leaver (JML) process was originally designed for productivity and cost reduction, not security — compliance was bolted on afterwards, which is part of why access sprawl and stale entitlements are so common
Five practical pillars make Continuous Identity real
