Identity and Access Management Is More Than A Phrase
2 min readI have been in the Identity and Access Management (I&AM) space for 10 years now. Designing, implementing and managing Identity Lifecycle and Access Management solutions. Solutions that provide the end to end security protection for your applications and data… if they are implemented right. Just because you have an Identity Management system, a Web Access Management system, a Role Management system does not mean you are going to see the benefits from any of those.
I&AM is not something that will be solved with technology alone. If you try to you will fail. You can have the best product set in the world and it will fail miserably if that’s all you rely on. I&AM is a way of life. The tools take that way of life and adapt to it. The only changes you should be making in the business processes is removal of redundant, useless, or non-value add steps. Provisioning is 10% of what a true I&AM should provide. Business logic, processes, approvals, workflows, reporting, auditing, access requests, segregation of duty policies and enforcement and instant terminations. This is how you should be managing your Identities, through the life cycle, start to finish and everything along the way.
Anybody can create an automated script to create, or provision, an account. Big deal. Take your corporation’s policies and processes to make that happen automatically ensuring enforcement, that’s Identity Management. Then based on that Identity and Role dictates the access they receive.
Too often companies get hung up with the technical accounts rather than the business identity.
Sometimes technology is not intended to be the driver, but the enhancer to your business.
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Binary Blogger has spent 20 years in the Information Security space currently providing security solutions and evangelism to clients. From early web application programming, system administration, senior management to enterprise consulting I provide practical security analysis and solutions to help companies and individuals figure out HOW to be secure every day.
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