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Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roadmap
Identity and Access Management (IAM) projects bring a promise of tremendous business and security benefits. Unfortunately, IAM projects are often plagued by high failure rates and run the risk of long delays. Failures and delays are typically due to a combination of project management and technology. You should develop your plan and IAM roadmap before beginning project implementation to ensure your solution meets your requirements.
Business Benefits of Identity Governance
Identity Governance is the visibility, review, and management of user access rights to systems and applications across the enterprise. A strong identity governance program provides many crucial benefits to the business. Some of the most important items are discussed here including cost and time savings, minimizing security risks, ensuring IT compliance, and improving user onboarding experience.
Best Practices for User Access Reviews
Regulations including SOX, HIPAA, PCI, and countless IT and financial regulatory audits require periodic review of user access rights to ensure all employees still maintain the appropriate level of access to critical systems.
In another paper we review the business benefits of identity governance. In this paper, we will present some best practices for performing your periodic user access reviews.
Success Criteria for User Access Reviews
When evaluating tools to automate your user entitlement review efforts, determining the evaluation and success criteria is one of the most important steps in the process. On the surface, many types of solutions appear to perform the same functions. Only after using the product for several months in your own environment will you realize that the nuances of how the solutions are designed greatly impact your project success.
How to Succeed With Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)
One of the most common buzzwords in IT security and compliance is RBAC, or Role-Based Access Control. The concept of RBAC is very simple, and has even been codified into an ANSI standard. But what do roles and role-based access controls really mean to the end user? In this article, we present some of the business benefits of managing access rights via roles, discuss whether or not roles are right for you, and provide guidance for deploying role-based access controls.
Access Auditor: The Alternative to Costly Identity Management (IDM) Deployments
Identity Management (IDM) deployments are commonly touted as the only way to achieve strong control and compliance benefits related to user access rights and entitlements. While IDM solutions are an effective option for some companies, the issues of high cost and complicated deployments should not be ignored.
What is a User Access Review and Why Automation?
User access reviews are critical for ensuring the security and compliance of digital systems within businesses. However, conducting these reviews manually can be time-consuming, error-prone, and resource-intensive. Thankfully, the advent of user access review software such as Access Auditor has revolutionized the process by providing powerful automation capabilities. In this article, we will the compelling reasons why organizations should embrace automation for a streamlined and optimized approach to user access review processes.
User Access Reviews in 3 Steps
Are user access reviews taking too much time and energy? You can automate this time consuming process in 3 easy steps. SCC’s Access Auditor makes it easy to get a handle on user access reviews as well as full automated identity management and provisioning.