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2025 Year in Review: How Our Customers Reclaimed 438k Manual Work Hours

Written by Alexis Moyse, CEO | Dec 18, 2025 12:05:55 AM

As 2025 comes to a close, the Clarity Security team is spending time reflecting not just on what we have built, but on what our customers have achieved. This year was defined by a critical shift: moving away from the chaos of manual processes and toward a future of autonomous identity governance.

Our mission has always been to empower companies to govern identity with speed, intelligence, and simplicity. This year, we turned that mission into measurable reality. From securing our Series A funding to launching our attribute-based access control (ABAC) engine, 2025 was the year we helped IT teams stop being ticket-takers and start being business enablers.

Here is a summary of how we advanced the platform—and the results you delivered because of it.

The Headliner: Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

The highlight of our year was the release of our proprietary ABAC engine. While traditional role-based access control (RBAC) often leads to role bloat and static permissions, our goal was to provide a context-aware approach that adapts as fast as your business does.

For too long, identity governance has been a choice between security and speed. You either locked everything down and slowed operations, or you opened the gates and accepted the risk. With the release of our ABAC engine, we’ve eliminated that trade-off. We are giving security leaders the intelligence to provision access instantly and safely based on real-time context. This isn't just a feature update; it is the foundation of true autonomous governance.

Greg Glass, Co-Founder & CTO, Clarity Security

With this release, Clarity customers now possess the flexibility to granularly control access without the ticket fatigue or manual maintenance of legacy tools.

Strategic Impacts of ABAC

  • Dynamic, Context-Aware Access: Grant and revoke access in real-time based on attributes like role, location, and device. This is perfect for complex, multi-role workforces.
  • Zero-Touch Lifecycle Management: Automated workflows now streamline onboarding, offboarding, and role changes, significantly reducing time-to-productivity for new hires.
  • Audit-Ready Transparency: Generate clear, attribute-level audit trails showing exactly why access was granted, simplifying compliance requirements.
  • Elimination of Role Maintenance: We removed the need for manual role creation, allowing your architects to focus on transformation rather than maintenance.

2025 Strategic Milestones

Beyond product features, Clarity Security matured as a partner this year. We solidified our standing in the market to ensure we can continue to support your long-term security roadmap.

  • Series A: In May, we secured our Series A funding. For our team, this milestone represents far more than just capital; it is a strong signal of market validation. Industry experts and investors have recognized that the legacy approach to identity governance is no longer sustainable.
  • A Modern Brand Identity: We unveiled a new logo and visual identity. This wasn't just a cosmetic change; it reflects our commitment to bringing clarity, intelligence, and simplicity to a complex industry.

 

 

Platform Evolution

Connectivity & Integrations

We expanded the ecosystem to ensure you have a single source of truth for all identities.

  • One-Click Connections (GATE): We introduced the Gateway for Authentication and Token Exchange (GATE), enabling one-click connections for major enterprise apps like Entra ID, Zoom, and GitHub. This reduces integration time from hours to seconds.
  • Expanded Connector Library: We added deep integrations for critical enterprise systems including ServiceNow, Atlassian Cloud & Data Center, Snowflake, Oracle, SAP Hana, and Microsoft Power BI.
  • Custom API & Webhooks: The new provisioning webhook support allows you to trigger Clarity workflows from external systems (like ITSMs) or send custom notifications to Slack, ensuring Clarity fits seamlessly into your existing tech stack.

Visibility & Risk Reduction

We provided deeper intelligence to help you spot toxic combinations and "phantom" access.

  • Enterprise Access Model (Tier 0-2) Tagging: Clarity now automatically identifies and tags privileged access (Tier 0 and Tier 1) out of the box. You can instantly answer, "Who are my critical admins, and how did they get there?".
  • Nested Access Intelligence: With new reports on Nested Access by Depth and Empty Groups, we help you untangle the mess of AD group nesting that auditors hate.
  • Azure Managed Identity Support: We expanded visibility into non-human identities, capturing entitlement nesting and role assignments within Azure to close critical blind spots.
  • Linked Entitlement Provisioning: Clarity now detects dependencies between systems (e.g., an Entra ID group requiring a specific Jira role) and provisions them automatically, preventing access gaps.

Operational Efficiency & User Experience

We refined the user experience to ensure audits and reviews respect your team's time.

  • Frictionless User Access Reviews: We overhauled the UAR experience with a new details panel, allowing reviewers to make decisions without leaving the screen. We also added Last Login and User Termination Dates directly into the review view to support data-driven decisions.
  • Smart Reminders: New direct-link emails for pending reviews and remediations ensure that compliance tasks don't get lost in the inbox noise.

2025 Impact by the Numbers

Our goal is to replace manual processes with autonomous governance. But what does that look like in practice?

We aggregated usage statistics across our customer base for 2025, and the results demonstrate massive efficiency gains.

  • Total “Joiners” Onboarded: 74,667
  • Total “Movers” Automated: 113,628
  • Total UARs Completed: 674
  • Total UAR Items Reviewed: 10,615,269
  • Total UAR Items Remediated: 48,724

When we apply an estimation of manual work these activities traditionally take, the aggregate impact is staggering - 438,255 hours saved

That’s nearly 55,000 working days not spent on tickets, spreadsheets, or manual provisioning. Instead, those hours were reclaimed for strategic initiatives and business transformation. And that doesn't even account for the 6,252 "Leavers" (Terminations) automated or the countless hours saved in identifying the 32,969,647 access grants from nested entitlements.

Looking Ahead to 2026 & Beyond

2025 has been an incredible year of innovation and growth. We're carrying this momentum into 2026 and look forward to the continued partnership of our customers and industry partners.

As always, we are here to listen to your IGA challenges and deliver solutions that make your team a growth driver rather than a cost center. We built Clarity because we have faced the friction of legacy tools and manual processes firsthand. It is incredibly rewarding to see our customers replacing the chaos of manual work with easy, automated processes.

Thank you for trusting us with your identity governance. We look forward to serving you in 2026 and beyond.