Digital work environments are complex – with multiple platforms and environments, varying access levels, and data scattered across systems. Security leaders can simplify and centralize access management with a unified security platform, of which IGA is a core capability.
Increased Security
Many breaches occur because of incorrect access. Yet, IT teams often need more time to review every access request. Instead, they must automate workflows prioritizing access by role and carry out bulk approvals to meet security and audit requirements. A modern IGA solution helps to eliminate manual processes by offering centralized views of the identity landscape. This enables organizations to track who has access to what, when, and why.
It also helps them to reduce risk by eliminating unneeded access and conducting regular certification campaigns. It helps them improve their compliance posture and audit performance by automating access reviews, removing outdated access, and quickly identifying orphan identities. Moving to a new platform is never easy – but the right strategy can make it easier for everyone involved. IT leaders can build buy-in and ensure success by empathizing with users’ needs, evangelizing value-based change, and leveraging experts to support the migration process.
Increased Compliance
A strong identity governance and administration solution can help organizations meet compliance and enable their workforce. The technology allows organizations to streamline auditing, automate provisioning and de-provisioning, minimize orphaned accounts, reconcile accounts to detect anomalies, classify systems by risk, and much more. It also reduces the chance of massive data breaches that result in hefty fines and reputational damage. This is especially important in highly regulated industries like health care, financial services, and government agencies.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and other regulations require stringent access controls to protect data and systems. A robust IGA solution can help organizations meet these compliance requirements by enforcing most minor privilege policies, maintaining an audit trail of user activity, and providing clear evidence of proper system and data protection.
Whether you’re looking to accelerate internal services, optimize productivity, or reduce risks and costs, migrating to modern IGA can deliver a real return on investment. It’s the best way to ensure users have access to what they need when they need it. And it enables the organization to remain agile in an increasingly digital business environment.
Reduced Expenses
The security requirements of a modern digital business require agility and scalability at the identity perimeter. This means the organization needs a robust defense with an intelligent identity at scale and a trusting environment. A centralized identity platform, of which IGA is the core component, helps IT teams streamline the provisioning and de-provisioning access to applications, meet compliance mandates and auditing requests, and deliver a secure experience for everyone from the CISO to the newest warehouse fulfillment clerk. Streamline processes and reduce IT costs with a modern IGA solution that leverages automation to accelerate and eliminate manual errors.
In addition, look for a solution that offers templated workflows to accurately reflect your organizational process and provide a quicker, more intuitive way to manage access. This can shorten the time it takes to onboard new employees and empower them with the tools they need to be productive – often from days to weeks in legacy environments. Migration to a new solution is never easy – but it’s a necessary step for your business to thrive in the future. Ensure the transition succeeds by empathizing with users, evangelizing value-based change, and leveraging expert help.
Increased Productivity
Everyone from the CISO to the warehouse fulfillment clerk needs access to your business systems to do their jobs. However, when users can access applications they don’t need, productivity suffers, and security is at risk. By streamlining onboarding and offboarding, provisioning and de-provisioning, and enabling role-based access permissions for on-premises and cloud resources with an IGA solution that supports automated workflows and a robust approval process, you can optimize employee productivity while reducing risk.
When a user leaves the organization, an IGA solution with strong identity analytics capabilities can rapidly de-provision access to all the resources they had access to (or didn’t need) by most minor privilege policies while alerting them to the change. This reduces administrators’ time on access reviews and enables your security team to take swift action.
Migrating to a modern IGA solution requires buy-in from a variety of stakeholders. Project leads must carefully communicate the benefits of upgrading to a current IGA solution and how it will mitigate business, compliance, and IT risks.
Increased ROI
A comprehensive IGA solution enables your team to streamline user lifecycle management by promptly and securely granting or removing access privileges upon onboarding, mid-lifecycle transitions, and offboarding. It also allows you to eliminate unnecessary or orphaned accounts, run certification campaigns, and evaluate security policies and controls. This minimizes the risk of unauthorized data access, enhances compliance posture, and improves productivity. The best IGA solutions amplify ROI by linking provisioning, governance, and privileged access management (PAM) functionalities into one platform.
This allows you to advance operational workflows, eliminate bottlenecks, and meet growing audit and compliance requirements with agility. A modern IGA solution offers the industry’s most comprehensive out-of-the-box continuous compliance library, advanced role mining capabilities, and cross-application Segregation of Duties risk rules to help your organization mitigate security risks and achieve business agility. Its intuitive interface and centralized management capabilities ensure quick time-to-value and reduce administrative overhead. It’s designed to integrate seamlessly with other identity management products via a configurable connectivity framework and can be deployed as a single, scalable SaaS instance.
