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Common webhook use cases

Use Entrust Identity as a Service (IDaaS) webhooks when you need another system to react to identity and access events in real time without polling. This page focuses on practical webhook use cases that align with the event types supported by IDaaS.

Security monitoring and auditing​

Authentication success and failure events help customers monitor sign-in activity and respond to suspicious behavior more quickly.

Common uses include:

  • Detect repeated authentication failures from the same source.
  • Alert on suspicious or unexpected sign-in activity.
  • Feed authentication events into SIEM systems.
  • Support review and investigation workflows.

User lifecycle automation​

User lifecycle events help downstream systems react immediately when a user is created, updated, deleted, or completes registration.

Common uses include:

  • Provision downstream accounts after user.created.
  • Synchronize profile changes after user.updated.
  • Revoke access in connected systems after user.deleted.
  • Trigger welcome or setup flows after user.registration.completed.

Administrative visibility and governance​

Administrative user events help customers track high-impact identity changes made by administrators.

Common uses include:

  • Log who created, updated, or deleted a user.
  • Flag sensitive identity changes for review.
  • Reconcile who made a change and when it occurred.

Onboarding and enrollment workflows​

Registration and enrollment events help customers track setup milestones and continue onboarding workflows.

Common uses include:

  • Mark onboarding milestones complete after user.registration.completed.
  • Trigger follow-up tasks after registration completes.

Authenticator lifecycle workflows​

Authenticator lifecycle events help customers react when authenticators are created, activated, assigned, updated, or removed.

Common uses include:

  • Update identity or access records when a user is issued or assigned a new authenticator.
  • Review unexpected authenticator removals or changes for follow-up.

Next steps​

After you identify the event categories that fit your integration, use these pages to continue:

  1. Manage webhooks to register and test a webhook.
  2. Events to review available event payloads.
  3. Webhook signature verification to validate requests before processing them.