This solution brief explains why the openness that supports teaching, research, visiting academics, external collaboration, and frequent student turnover also creates serious identity risks for UK universities. Many incidents begin with legitimate credentials that are stolen, shared, overprovisioned, or left active after a person’s role ends. Shared laboratory accounts remove accountability, temporary access often persists too long, and permissions accumulate through changing projects and responsibilities. These weaknesses leave leaders unable to prove who had access, whether it was justified, or when it was removed. SailPoint helps universities automate identity lifecycles, connect access decisions to authoritative student and HR records, enforce least privilege, govern collaborators, and

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