ID & Access Management

Identity management, also known as identity and access management are the tools that are used to ensure that systems and networks are open only to the right people at the right times and for the right reasons. Identity management systems provide administrators with the tools and technologies to change a user’s role, track user activities, create reports on those activities, and enforce policies on an ongoing basis. These systems are designed to provide a means of administering user access across an entire enterprise and to ensure compliance with corporate policies and government regulations.

Identity management technologies include password-management tools, provisioning software, security-policy enforcement applications, reporting and monitoring apps and identity repositories. Identity management systems are available for on-premise systems and for cloud-based systems, such as Microsoft Office 365.

An enterprise’s computing environment used to be largely on-premises, and identity management systems authenticated and tracked users as they worked on-premises. Today, identity and access management systems must be flexible and robust enough to accommodate the complexities of today’s computing environment where users are located domestically on-premise, as well as remotely off-site.