Lifecycle Overview

There’s a lifecycle for CIAM users:

• Users must get into your identity store somehow. You can migrate them to the new system if they exist elsewhere, you can create them via APIs or federation, or they must self-register.
• After users are in the CIAM system, they need to authenticate, log in or sign in (these all mean the same thing). This includes all manner of authentication methods:
  • passwordless options such as passkeys and magic links
  • Identity Providers such as Google or Facebook
  • SAML and OIDC federation
  • and more
• User profile data also needs to be managed over time. Functionality for this part of the lifecycle includes forms used by customer service reps, self-service account/profile management, searching to extract user data in bulk, and verifying users.
• Finally, users are sometimes deprovisioned. In FusionAuth this is done by locking user accounts by deactivating or deleting users.

The documentation in this section explain FusionAuth’s functionality and how it can help with each of these parts of the lifecycle.