Cloud-Based Solutions Delivering Real Time Views of Risk & Compliance 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 (NCAU) 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.

Learn how our cloud-based solutions can work together to help your Credit Union with all aspects of Risk & Compliance.

Enterprise Risk Management:

From assessing individual risks to monitoring key risk indicators (KRI's) and controls, SecurEnds brings all of your ERM information together. SecurEnds automates your processes to enable officers to spend less time chasing information and more time analyzing the performance of the risk and compliance controls in your Credit Union.

Compliance Management:

The SecurEnds solution comes with pre-populated templates to enable Credit Unions to identify, assess, manage and report on regulatory compliance obligations from regulatory such as the NCUA, COSO and more. See compliance in real-time on SecurEnds color coded live ash board which allows you to track trends and movement over time.

Vendor Management:

Third-party risk is a hot topic for regulators. When a Credit Union outsources an activity to an outside vendor it can introduce new and/or increased risk to the organization. Vendor Management is all about identifying, assessing, measuring, monitoring and controlling those risks. SecurEnds Vendor Management solution enables you to have all your vendors, contracts and reviews in one central place eliminating duplicate spreadsheets and minimizing the manual effort involved in collating a vendor's information.

Cybersecurity:

SecurEnds end-to-end Cybersecurity assessment tool enables organizations to identify, analyze and prevent cybersecurity breaches in their businesses. The tool is pre-populated with the full suite of either the FFIEC or NIST controls which can be easily configured to suit your Credit Union. The results of assessments against the mitigation controls are shown on a grid view dashboard where areas of concern can be easily identified, actions can be created and tracked and reports generated.

Find out how SecurEnds can make it easy to manage governance, risk and compliance for your organization.

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Automate User Access Reviews to Save 60% Time on Audit Hours.

 

User Access Reviews is way for organizations to maintain, uphold IT controls and comply with regulations such as SOX, FFIEC, ISO 27001, PCI- DSS, HIPAA etc.

CHALLENGE: A publicly held cloud communication provider of residential telecommunication services has significantly grown its IT landscape through multiple acquisitions over the years. It had implemented Okta for access Management. However, the Audit department continued to manually conduct quarterly access reviews to satisfy SOX standards. A large part of review was focused on validating User Access Control, including credentials and entitlements across Okta enabled and legacy telecommunication applications.

SOLUTION: Facing rigorous requirements for compliance and risk management, Telco Company approached SecurEnds for its product that could be added on top of Okta to automate Access Certification process. A tailored demo followed by a five-day proof of concept (POC) established SecurEnds as the solution of choice. POC participants found the Okta-SecurEnds workflow easy to configure, add additional custom applications through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and that needed to be reviewed, set up onetime or periodic access certification campaigns. Using SecurEnds Cloud Ready, AI Enabled, Lightweight Identity Governance product, customer was able to fill the “governance gap” in Okta’s offering.

SecurEnds is leading the market with its lightweight, highly configurable and industry first flex-connector product that keeps companies secure while meeting audit and compliance requirements. Our software allows you to load user data from multiple system of record, connect dynamically to applications, match identities with user credentials, manage heartbeat identities across connected and disconnected, schedule one-time or periodic access recertifications and create proof of compliance for external auditors. In only 30 minutes we can demo why our SAAS software is now a leading choice for identity governance.

How to Handle Employee Termination for IT Compliance?

 Insufficient access removal for terminated employee leads to audit finding, and potential breaches. During the COVID-19 breakout many employees transitioned to work from home schedules. Many employees and contractors will carry on working from home even after the pandemic subsides. In this rapidly changing work dynamics, organizations of all sizes should examine their employee termination process. As soon as the decision to terminate an employee has been made, IT admin should receive a near real-time notification. IT admins are typically responsible for securing data, managing access to resources and maintaining permissions and access rights policies across the assets.

In our research we found that organizations with employees between 250 to 1500 display varying degree of Automated Provisioning and De-provisioning maturity. Unsurprisingly, a large percentage of companies and non-profit organizations have manual deprovisioning where the onus of timely withdrawing employee access across systems and databases is spread across the reporting manager, HR, IT administration.

Based on our experience configuring our SaaS product to help SMB companies manage employee termination, we recommend the following:

Use a software that automates termination workflow between HR system and downstream systems. Many of our customers use SecurEnds easy integration with service management systems such as Jira, ServiceNow to open deprovisioning tickets. Others prefer to use our Active Directory connector to deprovision employees.

Refer back to the latest user access reviews to know what system the terminated employee had access to. Unless your organization has done periodic evaluation of employee entitlements, there is no way to know with 100% surety what access the employees enjoyed beyond just what his role allows.

SecurEnds recently hosted a tailored demo for a banking prospect. Their main use case was employee provisioning and deprovisioning. They were looking for an easy-to-use solution that empowers business managers to make entitlement decisions for their employees and drive the deprovisioning. Currently, the IT team manually provisions and deprovisions employees. Although provisioning was inefficient leading to access delays for the new hire, deprovisioning was the biggest concern as IT was not always notified in a timely fashion when HR terminated the employee. As it turned out, this prospect needed a workflow that tied JML events to their JIRA ticketing system while logging the changes for audit trail. Simple. We agreed that a real time connector was a future thing.

SecurEnds is helping a number of Credit Unions and Community Bank achieve IT controls and compliance. Our lightweight, highly configurable and industry first flex-connector product can be earliy deployed on your on-prem. Our product an easily bolt on to your existing single -sign-on solution to make a comprehensive end to end identity management solutions. In only 30 minutes we can demo why our SAAS software is now a leading choice for identity governance

SecurEnds, an Okta Integration Network (OIN) Partner, simplifies Identity Audit & Governance for Okta applications

Digital transformation is not a flash cut. Many organizations continue to maintain on-premise infrastructure while utilizing one or more cloud providers. This adds a different level of complexity for any Identity Lifecycle Management solutions. Okta has emerged as the most viable alternate to Microsoft Azure for access management. It offers standard Identity Access Management services such as single sign on (SSO) and multi factor authentication (MFA). SecurEnds product has emerged as the leading complementary Identity Audit and Governance product to Okta.

 

SecurEnds is an Okta Integration Network partner and its product portfolio is currently being used by many Okta customer across the industry to do access verification, user attestation and compliance governance for different identities (services accounts, employees, contractors, BYOD devices etc.) Okta to SecurEnds integration is available from the Okta Integration Network (OIN) catalogue at no extra charge to help you achieve the following uses cases.

 

Use Case # 1:

Access certifications and entitlement review for both Okta enabled and custom application. In this use case SecurEnds sits between the HRMS system and Okta. SecurEnds connector pulls entitlements (credentials, role, applications etc) from all Okta applications. SecurEnds is also connected with non-Okta enabled applications such as legacy or custom applications to pull entitlements.

 

Use Case # 2:

Add Approval Workflow and Grouping to Okta Enabled Applications. Many highly regulated industries require approvals before access can be granted to certain applications. However, Okta self-request does not allow fine grained approval workflows. To circumvent this issue, organizations connect with SecurEnds, an Okta Integration Network (OIN) partner, to orchestrate the approvals. Read More.

 

SecurEnds is the Okta Integration Network (OIN) partner that provides a feature balanced, highly configurable and industry first flex-connector product that keeps companies secure while meeting audit and compliance requirements. In only 30 minutes we can demo why our SAAS software is now a leading choice for identity governance.

 

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Modern Credential Entitlement Management

 

SecurEnds Modern Credential Entitlement Management, a User Access Review product addresses access/entitlement auditing and reporting.

It automates user access rights, access certification and remediation to meet security compliance for identity governance.

 

SecurEnds CEM allows you to:

 

Step 1: Connect Applications

Manage the discovery of identities across connected and disconnected applications across the IT landscape. Match identities to the system of record. Use CSV upload, Pre-build Connectors, Flex Connectors, and Service Desk integration. Integrates with ITSM system (ServiceNow, JIRA, etc) to update the changes.

 

Step 2: Discover Identities

Centralize access controls and consolidate identity repositories. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Discovery Module enables auto-discovery of identities, including orphaned and unauthorized accounts.

 

Step 3: Intelligent Campaigns

Schedule automated access review campaigns by multiple dimensions (roles etc). Call to action intelligent reminders for end-users, approvers and skip level approvers. “Delta Campaign”, a quick snap campaign, allows you to see the changes since the last review.

 

Step 4: Reports & Insights

Our AI/ML module presents a simplified analytics workflow for outliers based on their risk profiles and excessive privileges. Drill down by campaigns, applications and periods.

 

CEM Product Benefits:

1.      Automated solution for all user access reviews.

2.      Ensures that your organization is in compliance and the user access is controlled.

3.      Enables you the opportunity to conduct your reviews on time, with accuracy and completeness.

4.      Saves your organization time and money.

5.      Secure and protect critical systems, applications and data by enforcing identity governance and access compliance.

 

Key Features:

1.      Know who has access to what

2.      Generate cross-application rules for separation of duties that trigger real-time alerts.

3.      Manage enterprise role definitions to easily identify excessive user privileges.

4.      Automate user access rights certification with a simple workflow.

5.      Remediation and Compliance reporting.

 

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User Credential Entitlement Management - SecurEnds

 

User Entitlement Reviews are an important control activity required for internal and external IT security audits. Done monthly or annually manual User Access and Entitlement Reviews for can be tedious and cumbersome.

 

SecurEnds SaaS Identity Governance Automates User Entitlement reviews, putting CISOs and Security department in control of users’ entitlements across a today’s hybrid IT system. Continuous access certification also enables continuous control.

 

·         SecurEnds securely connects to all cloud and on-prem applications and synchronizes user/roles using connectors or CSV file upload.

·         Creates consolidated user identity database and automates user access reviews for all employees, contractors, and partners in your organization

·         SecurEnds reduces complex development by offering built-in and custom connectors for you to quickly integrate your applications

·         Setup and manage recurring campaigns to perform access reviews to always ensure users have the right access

·         Management dashboard allows reviewers/managers to perform access reviews for all applications

·         Easily manage campaign lifecycle including escalation to managers who have not performed reviews and delegate access reviews to another person in case any manager is unavailable.

·         Easily update access review changes to applications using built-in connectors to Service Now, Jira, Email, etc.

·         Provides audit reports and a separate dashboard for auditors for access compliance attestation and certification.

·         Offered as SaaS on the cloud or on-prem solution.

 

Automate User Access and Entitlement Reviews:

 

1.      We Enable companies to continuously run review campaigns of the users’ access rights and roles, by assigning the manager to certify, revoke their entitlements. As a result of this there is an increase in positive and accuracy of certifications and making the certification process auditable and compliant.

2.      Compliance and Auditing reporting features deliver identity intelligence and answers the common questions like ‘who has access to this program, and ‘who approved that access?

3.      Addresses Governance and Compliance challenges like Attestation/Certification, Validation and Reporting in one solution.

4.      Enables large enterprises to get in control of users’ entitlements across a vast range of systems, while simultaneously enabling them to Be in control of their own future.

5.      Available on-premise, in the cloud, or as a managed service with built-in connectors for a variety of systems.

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How to modernize identity governance and user access reviews with Workday and Okta?

 

SecurEnds integrates with Okta, Workday and other applications to allow organizations to embrace digital transformation, while ensuring access reviews and audits are conducted periodically to certify right people have access to the right resource at the right time.

Benefits:

1. Reduce operational cost of access reviews

2. Unify workflow and communication between external auditors and IT staff

3. Centralize visibility across connected and legacy applications

4. Create secure environment against insider threat and breach.

Features:

Securely connects to all cloud and on-prem applications and synchronizes user/roles using connectors or CSV file upload.

Creates consolidated user identity database and automates user access reviews for all employees, contractors, and partners in your organization

Reduces complex development by offering built-in and custom connectors for you to quickly integrate your applications

Setup and manage recurring campaigns to perform access reviews to always ensure users have the right access

Management dashboard allows reviewers/managers to perform access reviews for all applications

Easily manage campaign lifecycle including escalation to managers who have not performed reviews and delegate access reviews to another person in case any manager is unavailable.

Easily update access review changes to applications using built-in connectors to Service Now, Jira, Email, etc.

Provides audit reports and a separate dashboard for auditors for access compliance attestation and certification.

Offered as SaaS on the cloud or on-prem solution.

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