What is Cloud Identity & Access Management?

 

Implementing cloud Identity Access Management (IAM) helps enterprises improve accessibility and security. With an IAM solution, companies can more easily handle the needs of an evolving IT landscape while reducing overhead. 

 

What Is Cloud Identity Access Management? 

Identity Access Management (IAM) provides a framework that allows users to connect to applications. IAM acts as a database for user records. Often these are cloud-based services that sit outside of your network. When a user tries to gain access, the application will check with the identity provider first to authenticate. 

 

How Cloud Identity Access Management Works 

The Identity Provider sends a series of messages to authenticate. These include: 

• An authentication assertion that shows the requesting user or device is who or what it claims to be. 

• An attribution assertion that passes along relevant data when a connection request is made. 

• An authorization assertion that documents whether the user or requesting device was granted access to the online resource or not. 

These assertions are XML or JSON documents that contain all the necessary information to verify users to a service provider. 

 

SecurEnds Cloud IAM product enables Identity Access and Lifecycle Management for Provisioning and De-Provisioning of user access in AWS, Azure and GCP cloud platforms. The product manages Cloud Governance to meet security and audit compliance. It manages Cloud user permissions for employees, partners, customers and access approval management. 

 

Identity Governance enforces the access life cycle management process directly from granting access and periodically reviewing access privileges. Additionally, it works to revoke access privileges when a user is terminated. The process enables a centralized system where you have the ability to manage the workflow of user access privileges and entitlements, all in a single place for internal governance, auditing and for an external audit to review the user access controls. 

 

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What Is Identity Governance and Administration?

 Identity governance and administration (IGA) is a policy-based approach to identity management and access control. As the name implies, IGA systems merge identity governance and identity administration to provide additional functionality beyond traditional identity and access management (IAM) tools. Particularly, they offer valuable support in auditing and meeting compliance requirements.  

 

IGA systems can also help automate workflows for provisioning and deprovisioning users. This is especially important given the growing need for users to log on from any place and device, which makes identity and access management difficult to manage. 

 

Before we explore how IGA can support you and whether it makes sense for your organization, let’s define its components: 

 

1. Identity governance: Processes and policies that cover the segregation of duties, role management, logging, access reviews, analytics, and reporting. 
2. Identity administration: Account and credential administration, user and device provisioning and deprovisioning, and entitlement management. 

 

Did you purchase large IGA product and have not implemented for many years? 

 

We found out that many companies are struggling to implement IGA solutions due to 

1. Applications onboarding complexity 
   Expensive professional services 
   Duration of the implementation 
   Budget challenges 
2. Business process changes 

 

However, the core value of the IGA solution is to perform user access reviews to meet security compliance and identity governance. 

 

SecurEnds provides easy to use SaaS product to perform user access reviews in weeks for your Active Directory, Microsoft apps, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Databases, Cloud apps, and Custom apps. 

 

Ready to see the demo? Please click the link: https://www.securends.com/user-access-reviews 

Top Benefits of Automating Manual Processes in Businesses

 Easy to Acquire Customer Info –

When N.A.P (Name – Address – Phone Number) collection is automated, it’s easier to collect name, address, and phone number. The workflow management software saves it on the cloud, making it readily accessible to everyone in the team and store it in a secure manner.

Timely Order Placement –

Order placements may no longer be slowed down as you can choose to automate it with pre-defined fields and place orders every month. It can be modified when needed and sends notifications to concerned teams.

Keep Track with Payment Management –

Generating invoices, requesting payment from clients and payment processing are all essential processes in every business setup. Automate and digitalize all these processes for simplified payment management. It’s much easier to keep track of them using the software, send notifications when it needs a person’s attention and also makes it easier to audit payments whenever required.

Maintain Contracts and Permit Information –

A workflow software utilizes the power of the cloud where all your vital information including contracts created, client database and permit information is stored. Authorized people in the team can access it from any device, any time and make timely decisions.

Simplified IT Management –

Setting up an IT infrastructure for your company is simplified as it can help automate software updates, create requests to buy new hardware and notify teams of installation status.

Schedule Jobs and Send Notifications –

An important activity that regularly takes place in every office scenario. You can choose to schedule jobs for different teams or specific employees. The software will send notifications and notify them acting as a reminder to get the assigned job done in time.

Choosing the right workflow automation software to move your processes from manual to an automated environment is easy. SecurEnds is a workflow software designed for businesses of all sizes and provides all the above said features including cloud-based database storage, notifications and simplified workflow creation for your every requirement.

SecurEnds provides easy to use SaaS product to perform user access reviews in weeks for your Active Directory, Microsoft apps, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Databases, Cloud apps, and Custom apps.

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https://www.securends.com/automate-homegrown-legacy-identity-solution/

What is Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)?

 

The objective of providing an Active Directory Federation Service is to drastically simplify access management within the organization. ADFS supports identity management and provides a Single Sign-On solution, this is how;

• When a third-party, say your company’s clients, partners or vendors need an access to your environment, ADFS authenticates their username and passwords that allows the sharing of identities between the organizations securely, this is also known as “Federated Identity Management” as Federation means trust between your company and the third parties.
• ADFS offers Single Sign-On, where the users can sign on to multiple applications, without having to validate their credentials each time they log in. Users need only one strong, secure credential to log in to their applications.

ADFS for your organization – a good choice?

Deploying an Active Directory Federation Service should be a well-thought decision and shouldn’t be opted for just because businesses around you are going for it.

You may be able to make an informed decision after reading the advantages and disadvantages of ADFS as given below –

Single Sign-On to applications

The Single Sign-On solution is a real time-saver and enhances productivity. Employees have access to multiple applications and with SSO, they can login to all their applications at one go with only one set of credentials. They no longer need to spend time logging into each application. This saves a lot of their time and helps them become more productive.

Secure third-party connections

When a client or a vendor needs access to your environment, you cannot deny them the same. However, the question of how secure the access is, would surely bother you.

ADFS authenticates a user’s identity and helps establish a federation trust which builds secure third-party connections and makes sharing information between your organization and trusted partners much easier and secure.

Easy access to cloud apps

Accessing the applications on your Active Directory is undoubtedly a lot simpler. All the applications are in one place and you need only one credential to access them all. However, accessing cloud applications becomes complicated as they need different credentials which are in no relation to your AD credentials. So, if you use 5 cloud applications, you will be using and validating 10 different credentials.

 

This whole process is simplified with ADFS in Azure AD. You can easily access, manage and single sign-on to your cloud applications by authenticating the on-premise credentials.

 

ADFS also has some drawbacks – it is complex to understand, you cannot use ADFS on remote desktop servers, it may not be able to authenticate older apps, and the pricing is not necessarily pocket-friendly. In only 30 minutes we can demo why our SAAS software is now a leading choice for identity governance

 

To get more detail on Active Directory Federation Service –

https://www.securends.com/active-directory-federation-services/