Article: Identity as an Architectural Concern: Enterprise IAM Beyond Authentication

By Vaishnavi Khosla · InfoQ · Friday, 6 November 2026 at 09:00 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

The way you design your identities will drive your data models, your service scope, and your revocation policies; enterprise identity management is thus an architectural problem, not an afterthought. Based on our experience in service account governance, this article touches upon graph vs. RBAC, integrating a vault you don't own, and bounding revocation latency for an event stream.

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