Identity management (IDM) and access management (IAM) are among the key solutions required to deploy automated and controlled management of users and their permissions to access individual IT resources.
Identity management solutions automate and streamline username management across the entire e-business infrastructure. Centrally manage the entire lifecycle of user identities (creating a username and password, assigning permissions, changes, disabling accounts). This significantly reduces administrative costs and ensures that security policies are consistently applied across the entire organization. Solution benefits include security, automation and policy-based management of user roles, identities and access rights that make up a heterogenous company environment. Users can use a single username and password across the entire IT system. Passwords can be changed across all resources simultaneously and the change can be performed directly from the user system. If a user loses their password, they can request to change all passwords in the system by correctly answering a series of questions.
The solution for simple and centralized identity management that supports single sign-on significantly reduces administration costs and improves control, security and availability of the IT system. This helps you ensure consistent enforcement of your security policies across your organization.