Today there is an increased focus on compliance of regulatory mandates, ensuring secure IT systems and the privacy of confidential consumer and enterprise data. These essential technology and business objectives often becomes complex due to factors such as, constantly changing IT platforms, maximizing regulatory demands, maximizing board and shareholder demands for minimizing risk and the rising need to minimize compliance expense. Hence, an efficient and organized approach for attaining ongoing compliance is important for the modern day complex regulatory environment.

A comprehensive Identity Access Management (IAM) platform forms the base of efficient IT security and compliance. The reason being that IAM platform allows you to answer some of the crucial compliance queries associated with your users, such as:

  • Who has access to what?
  • What can they do with that access?
  • What can they do with the information they obtained?
  • What did they do?

In order to answer these questions, it is essential to be able to efficiently manage and monitor user identities, their information usage and access using an efficient IAM program as follows:

  • Control Identities – IAM programs help to monitor user identities, their roles, allows users to avail the resources, streamlines compliance with identity access management policies, and monitors the user and compliance activity
  • Control Access – Enforce the policies associated with system services, web applications and vital information. IAM also helps in managing the privileged users and avert improper actions.
  • Control Information – IAM program helps in classifying, discovering and preventing the leakage of private customer and consumer data.

As and when an organization evolves the IAM processes implemented too requires changing accordingly. Service providers that specialize in risk management frameworks have come with IAM solutions that make this task simple. They function in the following three phases explained below:

Strategy and Design
This phase provides a methodical requirement analysis and planning that is essential for establishing a base for an efficient IAM strategy. Here solution provider evaluates the requirements of the end-user through multiple channels, such as field assessments and executive workshops that enables to set up a strategy and IAM route map. The solution also assists with technology evaluation, business case analysis and solution architecture.

Digital Identity and User Lifecycle Management
This phase involves the design and management of data to recognize individuals in order to sanction them for digital transactions. It is also important to monitor these identities over a period of time.

Access Management
This phase provides a complete solution for enterprise access management comprising of single sign on, web access management, information risk management and coveraged access control.

Service providers of IAM solutions today help companies to optimize and sustain their IAM strategy. IAM has always been active, and hence your system also needs to change constantly. Innovative IAM programs address and fulfills this requirement efficiently through system enhancements and upgrades.

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10/29/2017 03:31:54 am


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