Identity and access management with Its necessities

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Identity and access management with Its
necessities

• Any organizations biggest nightmare can be about
  its user application becoming compromised and
  hackers using the employee credentials to access
  them and steal the company data.

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Cyber security related challenges faced by
organizations

• Following are the most significant challenges
  regarding cyber security that every corporate
  organization faces
• 30 of employees leaving the organization usually
  do not have all access rights removed promptly
• There is no transparency of access rights in any
  organization
• Many times, Least privilege principle is not
  implemented
• Authentication of users for password resets is
  complex and insecure
• Therefore, due to these challenges, Identity
  Management and Access Management are always
  needed for the applications and their user
  credentials in order to ensure the safety of
  company data.

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What is Identity Management?

• Identity Management (IDM) can be described as the
  management of individual principals, their
  authentication, authorization, and privileges
  within or across a computer system and enterprise
  boundaries. Its goal is to increase the security
  and productivity, along with decreasing the cost,
  downtime and repetitive tasks.
• What is Access Management?
• Access Management is defined as planning the
  conditional access to applications which would be
  different from one profile to another.

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How are Identity Management and Access Management
useful together?

• Identity Management and Access Management are
  primarily used for the automation of the system
  meant for initiating, capturing, recording and
  managing the user identities and their related
  access permissions.
• Identity Management and Access Management
  guarantee that access privileges have been
  granted according to one interpretation of
  policy. It also ensures the proper
  authentication, authorization and audition of all
  individuals and services.
• Poor control on Management processes of Identity
  and Access can lead to regulatory non-compliance
  because if the organization is audited, it would
  not be possible for management to prove that
  company data is not at the risk of misuse.
• The combination of Identity Management and Access
  Management is the ultimate solution for
  Simplified authentication, improvement in
  password control, consolidation of systems,
  Active Directory (AD) management, secure
  management of application access and more.

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How the combination of Identity
Management and Access Management works?

• The solutions offered by the combination of
  Identity Management and Access Management
  automate the initiation, capturing, recording and
  management of user identities, along with related
  permissions regarding access.
• The products offered by the combination Identity
  Management and Access Management must have a
  centralized directory service that scales as per
  the growth of company. Central directory prevents
  haphazard recording of credentials in files and
  sticky notes, given that remembering multiple
  passwords for different systems is difficult for
  employees.
• The systems operating under the combination of
  Identity Management and Access Management can
  facilitate the process of user provisioning and
  account setup. This decreases the time required
  with a controlled workflow, ensuring lesser
  errors and the potential for abuse, and at the
  same time, enabling automated account
  fulfillment. An identity and access management
  system also provides administrators with the
  ability to instantly view and change access
  rights.

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• An access right / privilege system within the
  central directory manages access requests
  automatically, by automatically matching the
  employee job title with location and business
  unit ID. Bits of information compiled by the
  system are helpful, with regards to classifying
  access requests relevant to employees existing
  positions. Access Management functionality might
  automatically provision access to some rights and
  privileges, inherently in the position held by an
  employee while others may be added to user
  account upon request.
• The system operating under the combination of
  Identity Management and Access Management sets
  workflows for managing access requests. Regarding
  approval requirements for each request, it offers
  the option of multiple stages of reviews. This
  mechanism facilitates the set up for different
  risk level-appropriate review processes for
  higher-level access. It also offers the same for
  the reviews of existing rights to prevent the
  misuse of privileges.

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Benefits of Identity Management Access

• The benefits of Identity Management and Access
  Management include speedy deployment, audit,
  reporting and compliance of cloud based
  applications. This combination also ensures
  Interoperability, reduced costs as well as
  complexity, and lastly, enhanced security.
• To know more about Identity Management and Access
  Management, offered by our Security Operations
  Center, contact us at enquiry_at_leosys.net or call
  us at 407-965-5509.