Identity and Access Management solution IDM365 for the Pharma & Life Science sector

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Challenges in your sector

Pharmaceutical and life science institutes increasingly face challenges in managing online identities for their employees and clients.

Your solution

IDM365 helps by providing the identity and access management solution to companies in this sector. The team behind IDM365 approaches each organization with a passion to understand its current and emerging business risks and opportunities. The goal is to help clients address their most pressing needs, with an understanding of the broader context for the future. To properly serve each client, IDM Scandinavia ApS has developed partnerships in many countries to offer the right combination of experience and expertise in the local market—including the sector for pharmaceuticals and life sciences.

Controlling your environment

At global pharmaceutical companies, improper user access as defined by federal auditing commissions, require a comprehensive strategy to deal with. Compliance affecting such a large user base can involve huge costs and time investments both at the start and in day-to-day operations. However, such investments are necessary in order to not go against regulatory demands. The question is how to reduce and eliminate costs associated with compliance efforts.

In the pharmaceutical and life science industries, your company needs to manage the risk of non-compliance with a multitude of regulations while delivering new drugs and therapies and when making efforts to expand into new markets. It is an enormous challenge. Various trade controls require continuous monitoring that can work across complex business processes as well as across the multiple applications and systems that support these processes.

Compliance regulations

IDM365 helps your organization achieve compliance with regulations such as:

• FDA
• DEA Security Regulation
• Sarbanes Oxley

Operational risk challenges

Proper Account Termination
Research shows that over 40% of user access rights are not removed upon termination. These orphaned accounts increase risk exposure by a factor of 23—a staggering amount.

Management of a Central Security Policy
It is critical not only to define a central security policy but also to ensure that it is implemented and enforced across the entire organization.

Controlled Sharing of Information
Ensuring that different business units in your company can’t involuntarily share sensitive information is crucial for a company of your stature.

Secure Audit Trails & On-Time Reporting
A critical component of any operation is the detailed and trustworthy logging of information to later be used in audits. This data is to alert auditors of any potential compromises.

Secure Procedures for Access to High-Risk Systems and Databases
Ensuring that all the correct users have access to secured systems can be both difficult and tedious to manage. Properly managing access to these high-risk systems and databases is an essential component.

Challenge of cost reduction and optimization

Tedious manual operations
Forms are often manually filled out and sent out, requiring stamped approval by one or more managers. IT personnel who are tasked with managing users must then carry out each request one-by-one in each system and application.

Thousands of hours are usually spent by IT departments carrying out these tasks. It’s not an interesting job but highly paid employees usually carry it out.

On-boarding and off-boarding slows operations
Businesses often suffer because new employees have to wait long periods for their access to get added or updated. Automated role-based access provisioning cuts this time down.

Optimizing with IDM365

Speed up system deployment
IDM365 provides a structure for managing users that will mirror your business. With a proper overview and means to create access profiles that target users within groups, new systems can be deployed more rapidly than.

Some of IDM365 resource-saving features are:

• Self-service administration and personalization including password resets
• Increased speed and productivity through automation
• Delegated administration that allows data owners to manage access to resources rather than handing it off to a service desk or IT
• Role-based provisioning allowing management to assign new job functions themselves with as little as 3 clicks

Compliance through IDM365

Identity and Access Management (IAM)
It provides a foundation for information security and a top-level way for users to interact with security software and comply with data policies and governances such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).

Ensure transparency of complex IT systems
IDM365 provides automated processes for attestation, reporting, and segregation of duties (SoD), enabling your company to enforce policies. Transparency is further augmented by instant, up-to-date documentation and reports covering user access rights and entitlements. With access to all systems, effective governance, risk management and compliance can be achieved.

Enforce access policies
IDM365 provides a strong defense against inappropriate information access through IAM. Rapid, secure processes ensure detailed recording of changes and transactions.

Manage access through roles and attributes
IDM365 merges Role Based and Attribute Based Access Control (RBAC & ABAC) to handle user access in a way that management can understand and that looks at each user individually. As an example, two identical users may require different access if they’re at different locations.

The IDM365 Rapid Implementation Policy

The deployment of a tool for IAM can be tedious and for many often runs over time and over budget. We have developed proprietary tools that allow us to rapidly set up IDM365 in a new environment.

IDM:CLEAN is our analysis tool which we use to generate reports for each system involved in the implementation. These reports identify permissions that are redundant, no longer in use, or that can be removed for other reasons.
Read more about IDM: Clean here

IDM:ORGANIZE is a tool for automatically generating suggestions for role design and mapping based on the data gathered during the CLEAN process. This special software engine was developed in-house based on highly complex pattern recognition formulas.
Read more about IDM: Organize here

Quick implementation, fast ROI, uncompromising, streamlined, reasonably priced, API’s included… let us help you get control!