Which department manages employee-related identity data?

• A. Contractor Database
• B. IAM Systems
• C. Access Logging
• D. Human Resources

Answer: (D)

Employee identity data is owned and managed by Human Resources. HR maintains the official records for each employee—names, identifiers, job titles, departments, start dates, and employment status—data that identity and access systems use to recognize and authorize individuals. IAM systems rely on that data to provision and revoke access, but they do not own the identity data themselves. The other options don’t represent the department responsible for employee identity data: a contractor database handles contractors, not employees; access logging records events but doesn’t own identity attributes; IAM systems manage authentication and authorization flows but depend on HR as the source of truth. In onboarding and offboarding workflows, HR updates the records which then drive provisioning and deprovisioning in IAM.