Security or agility? If you have to make that choice in today’s competitive environment, you’ve already lost.
This is especially true with identity and access management. In a connected world, organizations thrive by opening up their systems and data to employees, customers and partners. But organizations also must protect their systems and prevent unauthorized users from accessing applications and sensitive data. They must be able to identify all internal and external IT users, know the applications and resources that they are entitled to access, and record what these users do while they have access.
The key to achieving security and agility is an automated, enterprise-wide approach to identity and access management (IAM) that includes three major elements:
- Identity Lifecycle Management — Managing users’ identities throughout their entire lifecycle and providing them with timely, appropriate access to applications and information.
- Server Resource Protection — Providing fine-grained access rights to support business and IT needs while reducing security risks that would otherwise result from over-privileged or shared accounts.
- Secure Web Business Enablement — Providing software services that automate and centralize the management of Web users and their access to Web applications, portals and services.
A more automated and integrated approach to IAM not only protects data; it enables organizations to reduce IT costs, facilitates their compliance with regulatory and contractual obligations, and, most importantly, helps them seize new business opportunities. That’s an easy choice.