Identity Management
All the security monitoring and defenses in the world cannot stop a person armed
with stolen credentials or password. 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. It can involve multiple layers of operations and
cross all aspects of the business.
Benefits of
Identity Management
Improving your
identity repositories, user provisioning and account management has
numerous business benefits:
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Significantly improve employee productivity with reduced and single
sign-on as well as self-service rights provisioning.
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Greatly
improve enterprise security while lowering organizational risk with
consistent and uniform role based access.
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Improve
intra-organizational efficiencies with the ability to quickly build
and dismantle access rights.
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Lower total
cost of ownership (TCO) with efficient, unified management and
monitoring systems.
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Clear path
to regulatory compliance through the implementation of concise and
comprehensive audit and access policies.
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Create a
more agile and modular infrastructure that can adapt quickly to
application and network changes.
Anitian has built an identity management practice around our
time-honored scientific principles. Since we are not tied to any
specific technology, we can guide your organization though the IM
process ensuring that technology selection, integration and
implementation are tied together with an effective strategic plan.
Typical Component of an IM Project:
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Analysis, Design & Planning
Our professional services group can analyze your existing business
and develop an identity management strategy that is perfectly suited
to your business and requirements.
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Technologies
Anitian
supplies numerous different authentication, single-sign on and
identity management products. We can integrate many different
solutions providing comprehensive, centralized identity management.
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User Account Auditing
Anitian can audit your existing authentication system for security weakness and
suggest methods to improve its security. This can include a comprehensive audit
of all user accounts.
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Strategic Vision, Practical
Implementation
With
Anitian, your IM project will have the independent, objective
insight you need to enforce a clear strategic vision, without
sacrificing practical implementation benefits. IM projects can be
very complicated. With Anitian at the helm, you are guaranteed
rational advice based on empirical analysis.
For
information about Anitian's identity management solutions, contact your Anitian
representative at info@anitian.com or
call 503.644.5656.