How to Add SCIM Provisioning to Your SaaS Without Building It From Scratch

The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 highlights that compromised internal accounts contribute significantly to data breaches, with an average cost of $4.99 million, and orphaned post-offboarding accounts being a major factor. To address this, the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) 2.0 standard is employed to automate user lifecycle management via a customer's Identity Provider (IdP) into a SaaS application. However, implementing SCIM 2.0 can be resource-intensive due to its complex requirements, including managing multiple endpoints and protocol quirks. A broker-pattern approach, such as using SSOJet, simplifies this by reducing SCIM endpoints to a single webhook receiver, significantly cutting down implementation time and ongoing maintenance. This setup allows SaaS applications to efficiently handle user provisioning, updates, and deactivations, while ensuring compliance with security standards like SOC 2. The broker pattern is shown to be a more cost-effective and low-maintenance solution for B2B SaaS providers compared to building SCIM capabilities from scratch, also offering built-in resilience against identity-related security incidents.