Identity Management
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Enterprises face many challenges when it comes to managing the life cycle of user identities. The challenges begin right from the start, when a new user requires access to an application, and continue through to the end of that life cycle, when the user leaves the organization and needs to be removed to prevent further access.
Proginet, with its SecurForce suite of security products, addresses the life-cycle management of user identities, allowing enterprises to securely automate the process of user provisioning and life cycle identity management.
Focus on User Life-Cycle Management
The user life cycle has three distinct phases – Provisioning, Maintenance and Retirement.
Provisioning:
In the Provisioning phase, foundations are built: Users, both internal and external, are registered and have their relationship defined to the company according to their role, position, title, corporate policies, etc.
Maintainance:
In the Maintenance phase, system administrators maintain the two core elements – identity credentials (passwords, user information, etc.) and access rights (what systems, accounts, and information the user has access to, and at what level).
Retirement:
Retirement is the phase which causes organizations the most difficulty, particularly from a security perspective. Typically, the average user must be deleted from at least ten different repositories or directories. However, there is very often no central record kept of the access rights of employees, and only the employee truly knows all the systems they had access to. De-provisioning is a manual, tedious process, and is extremely prone to error, resulting in unacceptable security risk and exposure.
Proginet’s SecurForce is a complete enterprise solution that addresses all of these issues while maximizing the security and efficiency of the enterprise. SecurForce is an integrated solution that was developed specifically to address all phases of the corporate user life cycle.
