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Conditional user access fails when the enforcement point cannot trust the user attribute feeding the decision. For DoD program offices, that is not an ICAM housekeeping issue. It is the first gate in the User Pillar that determines whether downstream Zero Trust controls are operating on verified enterprise data or local assumptions. Under DTM 25-003, the question is direct: Have you established a basic set of user attributes for authentication and authorization across the ent

Conditional access breaks down fast when user attributes live in too many places. We see this across agencies: HR owns one version of the user, Active Directory owns another, the identity provider has a partial profile, and mission applications maintain local roles that nobody reconciles until access is wrong. That is not a tool problem first. It is an attribute architecture problem, and it affects how well an agency can implement OMB M-22-09 and the CISA Zero Trust Maturity