Why do organizations need an identity and access management solution?
With the number of data breaches rising exponentially, organizations need to adopt governance practices and tools to prevent threats and increase operational efficiency. Gaining access to the corporate perimeter is easier than ever due to remote work. For many organizations, an enormous amount of the workload is stored and shared across a wide variety of on-premises and cloud applications. This is why many organizations use granular access control solutions to keep up with authentication demands.
Identity and access management (IAM) solutions help securely manage the digital identities of users. IAM encompasses three key components: identification, authentication, and authorization. Restricting access to business-critical resources and ensuring data protection can help IT admins track privileged access abuse. IAM solutions protect the organization against security incidents by setting parameters in the system to detect anomalous activities that otherwise go undetected. These IAM security features help with building effective security infrastructure.
How will an identity and access management solution help your organization?
– Make the switch to remote work easy and effectively manage the identities of remote users. Enable single sign-on (SSO) for quick, secure access to corporate resources and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) to strengthen security.
– Secure your hybrid cloud infrastructure where data is stored in mixed computing platforms made of on-premises servers and private or public clouds. Monitor network traffic and enforce granular visibility across your offline-online environment. Develop cross-platform risk profiles and enable adaptive access to resources on strict contextual authentication.
– Adopt Zero Trust to protect your growing network perimeter. Verify every user, employee, contractor, and respective endpoint before establishing trust with behavior-based security analytics. Make informed choices about data, people, devices, workloads, and networks.
– Closely monitor all privileged access pathways to mission-critical assets within your network. Enforce fine-grained access restrictions and request-based approval workflows for privileged accounts.
– Achieve dual control over privileged access with real-time session monitoring and anomaly detection. Effectively cut down standing privileges and privileged account sprawl by provisioning just-in-time privilege elevation for domain accounts.
– Beat IT disruptions by automating painstaking routines like provisioning, deprovisioning, and password resets. Empower your workforce with seamless identity self-service for on-premises and cloud applications.
– Ensure stress-free regulatory compliance with complete control over sensitive information and how it’s shared. Build and maintain a strong cybersecurity framework to meet the demands of data privacy regulations.
– Contextually integrate with other components of your IT management infrastructure for a holistic correlation of privileged access data with overall network data to gain meaningful inferences and quicker remedies.
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