Your Identity Tools Are Only as Good as the Data Behind Them
Your IGA platforms, PAM tools, and IAM systems can only operate on the data they are given. And the data they are given is almost always incomplete.
The missing input is activity data. Raw activity collected directly from each system in your environment: login history per application, last access date per resource, password rotation status correlated against current breach exposure. This data determines whether an account is active or dormant, whether its credentials are clean or compromised, whether its behavior is consistent with how it was provisioned.
Without it, your identity stack is making decisions from half a dataset.
What the Stack Is Missing
PAM tools govern access to privileged accounts. IGA platforms certify that the right people have the right access. IAM systems enforce authentication policy. All of this operates on stateful data: what accounts exist, what they are entitled to do, what groups they belong to.
Stateful data is a snapshot, telling you the configuration at a point in time. A lot happens between snapshots. A dormant admin account with stale credentials that appeared in a breach dataset after its last certification looks identical to a dormant read-only account with a clean history in a stateful view. The PAM tool vaults both. The IGA platform certifies both. Neither has the data to distinguish them.
The distinction is in the activity record.
Hydden's Identity Data Layer
Hydden sits above your existing identity stack as the data collection and enrichment layer. It connects directly to each system in your environment and continuously collects activity data at the source in real-time. That data is normalized, correlated with stateful access records, and made available as a unified identity dataset that every tool in the stack can operate from.
Hydden works alongside every identity security tool in the environment. Your PAM platform makes better vaulting decisions when it knows which accounts are active and which have been dormant for a year. Your IGA platform runs more accurate certifications when each account in the queue arrives with its current activity state and credential exposure. Better data into the same tools produces materially different outcomes.
What You Can Do With the Complete Dataset
Agent Studio is Hydden's native solution built to operationalize this data layer. Automate identity lifecycle decisions using activity data as a first-class input alongside entitlement records. Agent Studio lets security and IAM teams query the full dataset directly and trigger actions against what they find, without waiting for a scheduled review cycle and without manually stitching together data from different apps.
The data layer is the asset. Agent Studio now let's you operate on that data. Teams with existing IGA and PAM investments will find those tools making better decisions once the activity data is flowing into them. Teams building new workflows will have a dataset that supports decisions their previous tooling could not make.
The Input Problem
The data required to run your identity stack accurately already exists in your environment. The gap is collecting it from every system at the frequency the environment demands, and correlating it into a dataset your tools can actually use.
Identity stacks running on access data alone have a partial view of their environment. What accounts are doing is as material to risk decisions as what they are permitted to do.