Rippling IT: your IdP, fully informed

IT teams spend too much time keeping access current. Every hire, move, or contractor triggers tickets and exceptions. Most IAM tools are heavy and brittle—they demand complex setup and constant maintenance in the form of time-consuming workflows or custom scripts. 

Rippling IT’s Identity & Access Management (IAM) fixes that. Over the last six months, we’ve shipped features that use your org chart and employee data to keep permissions up to date automatically. Set the rules once, and we keep them in sync so IT can focus on real work.

Identity & access that runs on Rippling’s employee graph

Rippling IAM is built around one simple truth: identity providers (IdPs) are only as effective as the data they rely on. And no one manages workforce data better than Rippling. We know who people are, what they do, and the devices they use. It is the easiest way to automate role-based access controls (RBAC), centered around employee data and workforce changes.

For Rippling HR customers, HR and IT live in one platform, so when an employee’s role, department, or location changes, access updates automatically. No scripts, syncs, or manual reconfiguration required. We also integrate with over 70 leading HRIS platforms, including Workday, BambooHR, and ADP. That means you can plug in your existing system and still automate identity, access, and device management with live employee data.

Rippling IT delivers enterprise-grade identity capabilities that give IT teams complete control and flexibility. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and behavioral detection rules (BDRs) add powerful security layers by adapting to workforce data changes and user activity. For example, at Rippling we have BDRs that require employees to complete security trainings by a certain date, otherwise we block access to sensitive applications.

Rippling also supports over 600 third-party integrations to provide wide coverage of SSO for all of your company’s apps and services, as well as robust support for SAML, SCIM, API, and SFTP. For more advanced needs, Rippling includes an SSH Key Manager for secure server access and a Virtual LDAP directory.

And because Rippling also has a natively-built Device Management (MDM) tool that supports both Windows and Apple devices from a single console, both IAM and MDM are fully integrated within the same platform. Access is automatically tied to device compliance, blocking logins from unencrypted or unpatched devices. Activity logs are unified in one system of record, delivering complete visibility, faster audits, and built-in alignment with frameworks like SOC 2, NIST, and CIS.

This eliminates the silos and manual work that weigh down legacy IAM tools, bringing employee data, access, and device security together in a single, automated system.

The Evolution of IAM at Rippling

Over the past six months, Rippling has expanded its Identity & Access Management platform with a series of investments built on top of its employee graph. These enhancements move Rippling IAM beyond traditional access management, integrating automation into every feature without relying on complicated workflows, custom scripting, or third-party tools.

Here’s what’s new:

Third-Party Access App

Rippling’s Third-Party Access App gives IT one centralized view to manage every pre-built or custom integration across the organization. From a single screen, admins track integration health, connection status and ownership, and can easily reconnect or resume unfinished installs—giving teams real-time visibility into who owns and maintains every connection.

Access Assignments with Saved Supergroups, Integration Attributes, and Access Previews

In Rippling, a Supergroup is a dynamic, data-driven group that automatically updates membership based on employee attributes (like department, role, location, or any other attribute) to power precise, automated access workflows and policy assignments. That makes IAM at scale possible. IT teams can define dynamic, data-driven access policies that automatically adapt as employee data changes. Now, admins can use saved Supergroups to quickly roll out access, making new app launches and org-wide changes effortless. Every update can be previewed before it’s applied to ensure full confidence in the changes being made, and a prioritized rules engine ensures traceable access even in complex environments.

Integration attributes, coupled with Rippling's assignment prioritization framework, give IT teams precise control over entitlements in third-party apps. Admins can set mutually exclusive attributes per assignment—like org unit, license tier, or department—to ensure the right roles and permissions are automated and always accurate. 

Enhanced User and Group Management, Drift Detection, and One-Click Resolutions

Rippling now has a unified framework for detecting and resolving drift across both user and group management, ensuring that access policies always stay perfectly aligned across systems. It continuously monitors for discrepancies between Rippling and connected apps—like users who are missing access or still lingering in external groups—and surfaces clear guidance on how to fix them. With one-click resolution actions built directly into the integration, admins can instantly correct issues within the same place they already manage access—no workflow maintenance or custom scripts required.

Bulk Hiring, Transitions, and Termination Flows

Managing access during workforce changes has never been easier. Rippling automates the entire employee lifecycle at scale. HR and managers can review and verify access during onboarding, transitions, or offboarding, retaining or adjusting permissions for exceptions as needed. The result is a smoother, more transparent experience for both IT and other teams, with full audit visibility at every step.

Together, these capabilities solidify Rippling IAM as the most unified, automated, and data-driven IAM platform on the market, one that adapts automatically as your workforce and tech stack evolve.

Why Rippling IT Is the Future of IAM

Traditional IAM tools rely on disparate, disconnected, and delayed data patched together through time-intensive workflows for basic automation. Rippling IT is powered by real-time employee and device context, turning identity and access into a living system that updates itself as your workforce evolves.

Rippling IAM replaces maintenance with automation, silos with visibility, and complexity with confidence.

A Day in the Life with Rippling IT

Here are just a few of the ways Rippling IT is transforming how modern IT teams work, automating what used to take hours of work and eliminating the risk of human error.

• Faster implementation of new tools: When a new app is rolled out across the company, define any access rule imaginable using Rippling Query Language (RQL)—combining roles, departments, locations, or custom attributes—to precisely control who gets access. These dynamic rules can be saved and reused across integrations, ensuring the right groups of people automatically receive the access they need from day one.

• Smooth role transitions: When a support agent is promoted or moves to a new team, that triggers Rippling to automatically update all associated app permissions and access groups. No more going one-by-one to ensure they have the right tools they need, or lingering access to ones that don’t..

• Secure but flexible offboarding: When an employee or contractor’s engagement ends, Rippling immediately revokes access across every app, but also gives managers the flexibility to keep certain credentials, like a Jira account, active for a set period to finalize deliverables or ensure a smooth handoff of ongoing work. Access is always logged, auditable, and fully traceable for compliance.

• Resolutions for inevitable access or group drift: No organization is immune to drift, especially as it scales. Rippling automatically detects any access mismatches at the user or group level and lets IT resolve them instantly with one-click resolutions, eliminating the need for manual audits, complex workflows, or custom scripting.

• Prevent policy conflicts: Complex org structures make access and entitlement configuration difficult and hard to trace—do our sales managers have the privileges associated with the sales org or managers? How can I tell? With Rippling IT’s prioritized rules engine, admins can control exactly how access rules are applied, making entitlements and access predictable, audit-ready, and free from costly provisioning mistakes.

• Access tied to device security: Rippling IT connects identity directly to device compliance. If a MacBook isn’t encrypted or patched, access to sensitive apps like Salesforce is automatically blocked until it meets policy. IT doesn’t have to manually chase users or rely on separate MDM alerts. Compliance enforcement happens automatically.

That’s IAM that runs itself, so IT doesn’t have to.

Built for IT. Ready for the Enterprise.

Rippling Identity & Access Management delivers full user lifecycle automation, unified app visibility, dynamic access governance, and device-linked security, all powered by the industry’s richest employee graph and data.

For IT teams, that means:

• Fewer tickets

• Fewer manual fixes

• More control

• More time for strategic projects

Rippling IT isn’t just an alternative to existing IAM tools—it’s a fundamentally new model for identity and access.

The future of IAM is automated, unified, and data-powered. And it’s already here, with Rippling IT.

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