Executive Summary

Employees routinely accumulate access across dozens of SaaS apps and when they leave many organizations fail to remove all permissions, creating orphaned accounts that increase breach and insider risk — this is a recurring pain for IT/security and HR and a frequent audit finding. The problem is amplified by remote work and app sprawl, and auditors explicitly require documented removal of access under SOC2, GDPR and similar regimes. You could build a termination-first platform that listens to HR signals, integrates with IdPs and apps via SCIM, Microsoft Graph and custom connectors, and automatically validates, revokes, documents and escalates post-termination access removals with built-in approval/exemption workflows. Include risk scoring to prioritize high-impact deprovisioning, a tamper-evident audit trail for compliance, and a dashboard that reduces manual coordination between HR, IT and app owners. The market is attractive now: we estimate a $6.4B addressable market (80,000 target organizations × $80K ACV) driven by rising per-employee SaaS counts and tightening regulatory and audit pressure that makes automated, auditable offboarding compelling. Buyers are motivated to pay for tools that demonstrably reduce audit time and control failures. You can stand out by focusing on termination orchestration rather than periodic entitlement reviews, delivering the highest-fidelity connectors and audit evidence, and tying outcomes to clear ROI (faster audits, fewer orphaned accounts), but be upfront that success requires broad API coverage and strong change management to integrate into HR/IT processes.

Market Opportunity

Automated termination access review and removal to prevent orphaned permissions targets a $6.4B = 80,000 organizations × $80K ACV (targeting access governance and offboarding spends across mid-market and enterprise) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% CAGR — identity and access management and governance sector growth driven by cloud adoption and regulatory demand (industry reports 2023-2025).

Key trends driving demand: SaaS sprawl and remote work — more apps per employee increases the chance of orphaned access and raises demand for automated offboarding.; Regulatory and audit pressure — SOC2, GDPR, CCPA and financial controls require documented removal of access, creating urgency for audit-ready tooling.; API and protocol standardization — SCIM, Graph API, and app-level APIs make reliable automated deprovisioning increasingly feasible.; Shift to automation with guardrails — security teams prefer safe automation (suggest-and-approve or automated with rollbacks) to reduce human error while avoiding disruption..

Key competitors include SailPoint, Okta, BetterCloud.

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Automated termination access review and removal to prevent orphaned permissions

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