Identity and Access Management solution IDM365 for the public sector

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Challenges in your sector

Public sector organizations are increasingly driven to improve operational efficiency, share information, and integrate processes across operational and jurisdictional boundaries while maintaining control over costs. Regional and government employees need flexible solutions to live up to expectations in the public sector.

The public sector is complex and faces increasing, often contrary demands from politicians, businesses, citizens, and employees. While the public sector is subjected to cost constraints and budget deficits, users request easily accessible services, reliable information, and improved efficiency.

Your solution

IDM365 provides identity and access governance through automated workflows, ensuring compliance in the highly regulated public sector. It delivers transparency while living up to all data protection legislations. It’s modern interface can be accessed from any browser on any system or device. The end effect is a higher level of public service. IDM365 acts as the core between systems to ensure compliance, and centralizes support for highly critical government systems in public offices at all levels: local, regional, national and global.

Controlling your environment

IT organizations in a government environment face all of the challenges from the private sector, plus an ever-changing barrage of statutory, regulatory, and judicial requirements. Added to all that is the constant pressure and expectation to do more, to do it better and to do it all faster with less funding and fewer staff! With a long track record of speeding up task completion, simplifying infrastructures, and ensuring overall compliance in a global setting, IDM365 solves even the toughest of IT management problems.

Compliance regulations

IDM365 helps your organization achieve compliance with regulations such as:

• ISO 27001
• Data Protection and Privacy,
• CoCo

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!