IAM – Who has access to what information?

An organization may need to get up to an array of processes to ensure that it measures up to an ideal Identity and Access Management model. This can range anything from automating account creation, assigning access, streamlining administration to unifying passwords, identities and directories. However, the ultimate motive of an Identity and Access Management practice is to achieve compliance and improve security and increase efficiency. An ideal Identity and Access Management model encompasses Single Sign-on (SSO) Capabilities, Active Directory Management, Password Management, Identity Consolidation & Migration and Web Access Management.

Single Sign-on Capabilities: Single Sign-on Capabilities, regardless of systems or applications, should include true single sign-on, password synchronization, federation, enterprise sign-on, web single sign-on and federation. With Single sign-on Identity and Access Management takes care of cohesive competencies to simplify usage and ensure security authentication for users, clients, partners and the IT departments.

Directory Management: Active Directory Management assists enterprises to simplify their administrative functions by automating them by the way of controlling user accounts and group memberships. It also helps better streamlining of account creation, account management and AD migration.

Password Management: Identity and Access Management includes stringent Password Management. This means minimizing the high cost associated with resetting passwords with self-service capabilities. Identity and Access Management ensures that with granular management competencies across applications, consistent password policies are implemented. Moreover, Password Management also oversees unification of identities and ensures perfect synchronization of passwords, minimizing the problems that arise owing to multiple passwords.

Identity Consolidation and Migration: Identity Consolidation and Migration is a process of simplifying and optimizing the access environment, regardless of whether it is on cloud or in premise. By consolidating disparate systems into existing infrastructure, facilitating migrations and extending active directory, IAM takes care of seamless migration to different operating software.

Web Access Management: Web Access Management enables a secure management of any browser based application which includes whether they are SaaS, home-grown or internal. It also ensures a confidential access to internal resources regardless of if it is remote or mobile users too.

IAM leverages an enterprise with the following benefits to ensure the right personnel get the right information at the right time:

Governance pathway: Allotting governance for everything from apps to unstructured data to administrators to privilege accounts gives an organization enterprise-wide, policy-based control and transparency.

Simplicity of solution: Taking an account of the existing investments and centralizing authentication, authorization and administration would enhance automation and process orchestration for enterprises.

Enterprising decision-making: IAM identifies business priorities and lists them as ‘first things first’. This gives an enterprise a chance to get ahead with users aligned to line of business self service, unified policy, workflow tools and identity at all times.

Time reduction: IAM deploys rationale solutions without demanding much of time. Streamlined and automated tasks ensure they cut costs dramatically and leverage a practical and an actionable solution that relieves the burden on the IT team as a whole.

Modular approach: IAM facilitates you to begin and build solutions from anywhere, without demanding frameworks that are inflexible. The easy plug-ins to existing tools and assets also make it more on-the-go, deployable and agile.

A poorly controlled IAM process would lead the enterprise to incompliance and operational inefficiency. An ideal Identity and Access Management solution should encompass the above concerns and more, such as making user-passwords simpler and easier to remember, enabling easier access to IT resources, having better control access for IT regulatory compliance, monitor privileged users and also providing secure access to BYOD users.

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