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How to Unify Identities to Reduce Identity and Access Management Challenges
By: Jackson Shaw
2009-04-28
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How to Unify Identities to Reduce Identity and Access Management Challenges (
Page 1 of 4 ) Organizations struggle with complex, heterogeneous environments that require users to have multiple identities for accessing the applications they need. As these identities grow, they require an increased level of control and visibility, presenting IT with identity and access management challenges in efficiency, security and compliance. Knowledge Center contributor Jackson Shaw explains how a "get to one" strategy that automates identity administration, consolidates directories, and utilizes the organization's existing infrastructure and directory can minimize these identity and access management challenges. Today's
complex, heterogeneous enterprises contain multifaceted and diverse
information systems. The proliferation of the personal computer and the
networking of those computers have caused the number and types of
systems that are accessed, as well as the number of employees who must
be granted access, to grow exponentially.
An enterprise may use any combination of Windows, Unix, Linux,
Macintosh or legacy systemseach running a variety of applications and
creating significant inefficiency because users must remember different
passwords and take the time to access each one separately.
System security demands that authentication, authorization and
administration be controlled for every identity of every user in the
enterprise. This creates the majority of identity and access management
challenges. In a complex, heterogeneous enterprise, the IT staff spends
countless hours provisioning, de-provisioning and dealing with password
management and other issues for each of these user identities.
These same factors impact the organization's ability to maintain
information security as required by government regulations, industry
initiatives and established best practices frameworks. In fact,
inconsistent password policies throughout the enterprise, non-secure
authentication practices and delays in user de-provisioningdue to a
mix of systems and IT teams with the authority to deactivate a user
accountare the most common causes of compliance deficiencies.
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