Identity & Access Management – Authorisation Management 

Information security sits high on management agendas. Your organisation is also spending increasing amounts of time and money on implementing personnel and technological changes in your identification and authorisation processes; particularly if your partners and customers also have access to your systems. Inter Access can reclaim this time for you with Identity & Access Management: a vision, an architecture and a set of best-of-breed management tools for role-based information access. With this concept, you can also fulfil the compliancy regulations and thereby cut the related costs in relation to both HR and ICT management.

The challenge

Many organisations are confronted by legislation and regulations that oblige them to demonstrate that they have the logical access security to their IT systems under control. For example, the Sarbanes-Oxly Act, which applies to virtually all international listed companies. Within this framework, it is necessary to obtain greater insight into and grip on access by permanent and temporary employees to your IT systems. Attention in authorisation management focusses on:

  • The reduction of the risk of abuse of critical corporate information
    The authorisations are often ‘polluted’ by imperfections in the existing procedures. For example, the accumulation of authorisations upon employees changing jobs, copying accounts and failure to remove authorisations (on time) after an employee leaves. Cleaning up the accumulation of authorisations limits the risk of abuse of authorisations.
  • Reducing administration costs
    The existing procedures for the management of authorisations are often largely manual and therefore involve a great deal of time and expense.
The solution

With Identity & Access Management from Inter Access, authorisation management can be greatly improved and simplified. To achieve this, policy, organisation and processes in the area of authorisation management are coordinated and supported by state-of-the-art tools. This allows you to:

  • Comply with legislation and regulations
  • Keep track of who has access and who authorised this
  • Easily report on this;
  • Reduce the risk of misuse of company critical information;
  • Issue authorisations on the basis of roles (RBAC) and need-to-have;
  • Improve the efficiency of your authorisation management.
The Architecture

Inter Acces supplies best-of-breed tools for authorisation management, the functionality of which is tightly geared to the needs of your organisation. This enables us to make a selection independent of product, as we are an expertise partner of all leading suppliers in this area:

  • IBM: Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager Express
  • BMC Software: Identity Manager and Identity Manager for .NET
  • Eurekify: Sage ERM
  • Secur IT: RMAN
Results

Brining in Identity & Access Management for your authorisation management offers you a host of benefits:

  • You reduce management costs by automating labour-intensive tasks such as creating, updating and removing accounts and the accompanying authorisations.
  • You improve the quality of your provision of service by supporting the authorisation processes with tooling, whereby requests for and changes to authorisations are dealt with quicker and more accurately.
  • You increase the flexibility of your service by implementing a central registration function for user authorisation;
  • You are able to respond alertly to changes within your company and reduce the risk of abuse or loss of critical corporate information.

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