"A lot of DSPMs, they identify the risk but don't automate the action. It kind of just works without me having to necessarily micromanage it at all times — which is a huge benefit for us because we just don't have that operational capacity."
IAM tools manage identity and provisioning — they control who gets access and how. Teleskope governs the data those identities can reach — classifying what's sensitive, tracking how it's actually used, and removing access that exceeds legitimate need. The two are complementary: IAM manages the identity layer, Teleskope manages the data layer. Together they close the gap that exists when access is granted to data that was never properly classified in the first place.
Teleskope combines three signals: the sensitivity of the data being accessed, the user's current role and business context, and actual usage patterns over time. Access that looks appropriate on paper but hasn't been exercised in 90 days is treated differently from access that's used daily for a clear business purpose. The recommendations Teleskope makes are specific and defensible — not just a list of everything that technically exceeds a policy threshold.
This is one of the areas where Teleskope is most differentiated. Service accounts and AI agents operate at a different scale and with different behavioral patterns than human users — they're often overlooked in standard IAM reviews and can accumulate access that was never intended to persist. Teleskope tracks and governs non-human access with the same rigor it applies to human users, including agentic systems that introduce multi-layer access complexity.
The friction of re-requesting access is significantly lower than the risk of persistent over-permission — and most employees, when notified clearly, prefer to have their access rationalized. Teleskope supports a workflow where users are notified before access is removed, given a window to object or justify continued access, and provided with a simple re-request process. The 90-day stale access threshold can be configured to fit your organization's working patterns.
Teleskope generates continuous, audit-ready evidence of least-privilege enforcement — showing access granted, access used, access removed, and the policy basis for each action. For HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, and similar frameworks, this replaces the manual evidence-gathering process that typically consumes weeks of security team time before each audit cycle.
Every access removal is logged and reversible. If access was incorrectly removed, it can be reinstated immediately with full context of what happened and why. The audit trail satisfies EU AI Act and ISO 42001 requirements for human oversight of automated decisions.
