ANITIAN ENTERPRISE SECURITY

Identity Management Consulting

As enterprise networks become larger and more complex, so too does the management of user accounts, rights and access. It is vital for growing, evolving organizations to control user access and monitor for misuse and abuse.

Identity Management (IdM) refers to a collection of services, technologies, methods and concepts that manage identified items within an organization and its network. User accounts and authentication are a key part of IdM. However IdM also covers systems, devices, services and access rights. IdM also may involve many different, but related technologies, including authentication (LDAP, Active Directory), single sign-on, network access control (NAC) and public key infrastructure (PKI).

Anitian Enterprise Security, one of the oldest information security consulting firms in the nation, offers comprehensive IdM solutions, service and support. Our IdM practice covers the entire lifecycle of IdM solutions from design and analysis to procurement, integration and deployment.

Benefits of Identity Management

Improving your identity repositories, user provisioning and account management has numerous business benefits:

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.
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.

Anitian's IdM Methodology

Anitian has developed an robust and proven methodology for analyzing, implementing and perfecting IdM solutions. Key features of our methodology are:

Vendor Neutral Approach. While Anitian sells and supports many technologies, we are not allied with any one specific vendor for IdM products. This ensures we design the ideal solution based on objective analysis of your organizational needs and goals.
Strategic Vision. Anitian starts all IdM work with a strategic view of your business. This ensures that our recommendations and solutions align perfectly with your business objectives.
Collaborative Effort: Anitian’s IdM methods emphasize a collaborative, team environment. Our consultants engage your user and management groups to ensure broad acceptance of new systems.
Rational & Scientific. Like all of Anitian’s services, we pride ourselves on using rational modes of analysis based in the time-honored principles of the scientific method.

IdM Project Tasks

Anitian’s IdM projects can tackle individual challenges (like network access control) or encompass your entire organization. A common IdM project will address the following issues:

Current State Analysis: Analyze your current network and enterprise environment for suitability for IdM solutions.
Application Catalog & User Specifications: A unique service exclusive to Anitian. We catalog and analyze all of your existing internal applications and how they interact with authentication, authorization and access systems.
Define Organizational Identity Management Strategy: A comprehensive strategy document that outlines the current state of your environment, business case, suggested improvements, business process alignment, detailed project plan and technical recommendations.
Technology Evaluation & Selection: Our consultants work with you and technology manufacturers to fairly and objectively analyst technologies. Anitian can ensure the procurement process is smooth and error-free.
Implementation, Integration & Optimization: Anitian’s engineers follow a structured, formalized process for deploying and optimizing technologies.
Testing & Validation: Anitian follows up all installations with expert testing to ensure reliability and continuity