Technological innovation over the years have led business enterprises move towards solutions which are scalable, provide anytime anywhere access and faster to deploy. The advent of cloud computing solutions has helped the enterprises in achieving this objective even without any assistance from IT experts.
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Identity and Access Management Solutions -Securing Corporate Data
1. Identity and Access Management Solutions -Securing Corporate Data
Technological innovation over the years have led business enterprises move towards solutions which are
scalable, provide anytime anywhere access and faster to deploy. The advent of cloud computing solutions
have helped the enterprises in achieving this objective even without any assistance from IT experts.
Gartner's research suggests that by the year end more than 27 percent of enterprises will have moved
over to such flexible and scalable IT solutions.
However, even with such high standards and best practices, information security is an issue which looms
large over the service providers. This being one of the most challenging factors in today's business
environment, enterprises needs to take adequate steps in infrastructure management to ensure a secure
access into the corporate network. Identity and access management (IAM ) is a process used in today's
businesses environment to authorize access to employees and others to secure systems. This integrates
the work flow systems and involves organizational think tanks for effective working of the security
systems. By involving people, technologies, policies and processes IAM facilitates IT professionals to
manage and control digital identities and specify accesses to different resources.
Being the cornerstone of security and collaboration on the World Wide Web or any other network
systems, identity and access management has gained importance in enterprises as well as in green data
centers. With enterprises required to adhere to regulations and compliance requirements such as t the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and a number of others, business enterprises
are looking towards IAM more than before.
Identity and access management offers the enterprises a number of advantages. Besides facilitating
business value and security enhancements, it increases work productivity resulting in reduction in the
workload. Providing the right people the right level of access at the right time is very critical for any
business and identity and access management makes it easier, less time consuming. The service
providers of identity and access management aim towards providing the employees, partners or
customers increased accessibility and seamless management of the lifecycle of the identities within the
enterprise.
To keep pace with the competitive business environment, organizations tend to deploy a number of
applications from various vendors. This leads to incompatibility, inconsistency, increased risk of identity
2. thefts, unauthorized access etc. Under such circumstances, the identity and access management
solution provides the enterprises with benefits such as :
· Enhanced user experience and productivity
· Empowerment by simplifying the access across various applications
· Ensures efficiency of IT and information management
· Reduces replication of information by leveraging on existing infrastructure
· Established accountability and privacy
· Increases application agility
The identity and access management solutions offer the organizations increased focus to information
security. Further by reducing time and resources for administering user IDs passwords for secure access it
helps to minimize the productivity time lag and ensure good returns on investment.
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