How to automate User Access Reviews?

 

SecurEnds automates the User Access/Entitlement Reviews (IAM) across the enterprise for access certification to meet security compliance.

We know, User Access Reviews are very manual and tedious work from extracting application data, matching with HR or System of Record data, identifying managers/reviewers, sending emails to reviewers to complete access reviews and at the same time meet the audit timelines.

SecurEnds provides cutting-edge solution to automate User Access Reviews with a great UI and quick setup to add value to the information security and compliance teams.

1. Easy to configure connectors to connect to standard applications and custom connectors to custom applications to extract users and entitlement data.

2. If connectors are not needed, upload a CSV file with users and entitlement data to perform reviews.

3. Match all application users to HR/System of Record.

4. Schedule periodic and onetime access review campaigns for applications.

5. Managers/Reviewers to perform access reviews at a secured portal.

6. Complete access certification and generate audit reports for access attestation.

7. Show who has access to what across your enterprise

8. Rapid implementation using SecurEnds SaaS offering.

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User Access Reviews for Credit Unions

SecurEnds is serving a growing number of credit unions and community banks by allowing them to stay secure and compliant with Credit Union Administration Guidelines and Federal Financial Institution Examination Council (FFIEC)

Our User Access Review & Identity Lifecycle Management solutions can be rapidly deployed on-premise or cloud and come with industry leading flex-connectors for seamless integration with typical credit union applications and service management software.

Why Do I Need It?

Your Credit Union most likely uses a manual process to conduct access reviews. Any remediation (e.g. deprovision access for terminated employee) is probably done after the fact and manually. This leaves you vulnerable to audit findings and cyber-attacks.

What Are the Benefits?

Our User Access Review software takes out the complexity and helps enforce IT controls and compliance mandates.

Why SecurEnds?

Our lightweight, highly configurable and industry first flex-connector product can be easily deployed on your on-prem or cloud in a matter of few hours. Our product an easily bolt on to your existing single -sign-on solution to make a comprehensive end to end identity management solutions.

SecurEnds offers smaller community banks and credit unions the same identity governance programs used by big banks without needing a team of implementation consultants and long implementation cycles.

Salient Features:

1. Create single source of truth by connecting to HR systems such as ADP etc
2. Automate user access reviews across connected and disconnected applications
3. Set up attribute based, one time or periodic, multi approval level access review campaigns.
4. Integrate with service management systems (Trackit, ServiceNow, Jira) to orchestrate deprovisioning workflow.
5. Generate proof of compliance reports for audit trails.
6. Ease to drill down identity mind maps for manager to see “who has access to what resource”.

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https://www.securends.com/ffiec-user-access-reviews-for-credit-union-banks-financial-institutions/

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is a feature of the Windows Server operating system (OS) that extends end users'

What AD FS does

Microsoft's traditional Active Directory technology stores usernames and passwords and uses them to manage and secure access to computers on a Windows domain. It also provides SSO access to corporate applications. AD Federation Services builds upon this functionality to authenticate users on third-party systems, such as another company's extranet or a service hosted by a cloud provider.

Through SSO capabilities, ADFS can authenticate a user to different, related web apps during a single online session. ADFS shares the user's identity and access rights, also known as claims, across the organization's security boundaries. When users attempt to access a certain web app from one of their trusted business partners -- also known as a federation -- their organization must authenticate the employee's identity information via claims to the host of the web app. The host can then make authorization decisions based on the claims.

More than 80% organizations use Active Directory. Digital transformation is driving these organizations to transition mission critical system to cloud or hybrid environments. Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) allows users from these organizations to Single Sign-On (SSO) into external applications. Once logged into their AD domain with a single username and password, employees get right into all corporate on-premises and cloud apps from their desktops.

Why Do I Need It?

1. Reduce the burden on the IT helpdesk and improve productivity as system users can seamlessly create access requests.
2. Enable proactive risk identification and mitigation to ensure audit and regulatory compliance requirements are met.

What Are the Benefits?

1. Improved employee productivity by allowing to self-request.
2. Audit trail of all access requests and manager or application owner approvals.

Important Features of ADFS:

SSO, federation:

SSO capabilities allow federation partners to share a streamlined experience when they use the organization's web apps. Additionally, IT can deploy federation servers in multiple organizations to enable transactions between federation partners.

Interoperability:

Through a federation specification called WS-Federation, ADFS federated identity management system is interoperable with other products that support web services architecture and even environments that don't use the Microsoft Windows identity model.

Extensibility:

ADFS supports the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 1.1 security token type and Kerberos authentication, and can also change claims using a customizable access request. Through this extensible architecture, organizations can adjust ADFS to work with their current security and business frameworks.

Versions:

Active Directory Federation Services was first released with Windows Server 2003 R2 as an additional download. Since then, Microsoft has released five different versions of AD FS.

Why SecurEnds?

SecurEnds is fastest growing third-party solution for ADFS that provides an easily configurable self-service portal for access approvals.

Read More: https://securends.com/active-directory-federation-services/