All the security monitoring and defenses in the world can’t stop a person armed with stolen credentials or passwords. It is this fact that makes the management of user identities so critical. With a proliferation of business applications comes a proliferation of user logons. Some organizations can have a dozen or more critical systems, all using different authentication schemes.

Identity management aims to centralize and coordinate the management, provisioning, monitoring and revocation of user accounts and identities. Identity Management (IM) is a complex business challenge that goes beyond technology, involving multiple layers of operations and crossing all aspects of the business.

Benefits of Identity Management

Improving identity repositories, user provisioning and account management has many business benefits, such as:

• Significantly improve employee productivity with reduced and single sign-on as well as self-service rights provisioning.Significantly improve employee productivity with reduced and single sign-on as well as self-service rights provisioning.
• Greatly improve enterprise security while lowering organizational risk with consistent and uniform role based access.Greatly improve enterprise security while lowering organizational risk with consistent and uniform role based access.
• Improve intra-organizational efficiencies with the ability to quickly build and dismantle access rights.
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with efficient, unified management and monitoring systems.
• Clear path to regulatory compliance through the implementation of concise and comprehensive audit and access policies.
• Create a more agile and modular infrastructure that can adapt quickly to application and network changes.

Anitian has built an identity management practice around rigorous and logical scientific principles. Anitian’s not tied to any specific technology, so can guide an organization though the IM process ensuring that technology selection, integration and implementation are integrated with an effective strategic plan.

Components

The typical components of an Identity Management project include:

• Analysis, Design & Planning
  Anitian’s professional services group can analyze existing business and develop a perfectly suited identity management strategy that meets every requirement.
• Technologies
  Anitian supplies many different authentication, single-sign on and identity management products, and can integrate many different solutions providing comprehensive, centralized identity management.
• User Account Auditing
  Anitian can audit any existing authentication system for security weakness and suggest methods to improve its security. This can include a comprehensive audit of all user accounts.
• Strategic Vision, Practical Implementation
  With Anitian, each IM project will receive the independent, objective insight needed to enforce a clear strategic vision, without sacrificing practical implementation benefits. IM projects can be very complicated, but with Anitian at the helm, every client is guaranteed rational advice based on empirical analysis.

For more information, please call 888.ANITIAN, or email Anitian Enterprise Security.