How Can You Quantify the Value of Automated Provisioning and Deprovisioning?

 

IT managers face a constant challenge to justify spending, demonstrate business value and quantify the impact of security incidents. Organizations too often fail to prioritize security until a crisis arises. Identity and access management (IAM) domains are key because they enable IT teams to address risk and facilitate operational and revenue gains. 

 

Automated provisioning and deprovisioning value calculations are no different. Provisioning and deprovisioning improve the user experience, operational efficiency and security policies and are integral to business operations. It’s important to view provisioning and deprovisioning as a business matter, not an IT issue. 

 

The Value of Provisioning and Deprovisioning – 

 

Automated Provisioning and deprovisioning activities include creating and propagating user accounts; requesting, approving and granting access to resources; changing users’ access over time; and decommissioning accounts when no longer needed. 

 

A well-built business case should include the fully loaded costs of software, process changes, organizational changes, hosting, change management and even effects in culture. The costs must be balanced against a full comprehension of value achieved. Whether or not the value exceeds the costs, there is value in simply demonstrating to your stakeholders that you fulfilled every aspect of diligence. 

 

Below are some important value drivers for automated provisioning and deprovisioning. 

Value No. 1: Operational Efficiency 

Value No. 2: Improving the User Experience  

Value No. 3: Identity Management as a Strategic Differentiator 

Value No. 4: Standardized Technology Platforms, Processes and Policies 

Value No. 4: Standardized Technology Platforms, Processes and Policies 

 

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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. 

Effective User Access Reviews

 

User access review is a control to periodically verify that only legitimate users have access to applications or infrastructure. Implementing user access review best practices can help to eliminate or avoid the mentioned risk scenarios. 

Best practices that application business owners can implement to help ensure effective user access reviews include: 

1. When a new business user joins the team, the application business owner attests and provides relevant roles and access levels for the business user. 
2. When a business user leaves the team or changes roles, the application business owner validates the user and the user’s access level for any updates or removal. 
3. At predetermined intervals (prescheduled part of calendar of activity), a business user access review is automatically triggered or manually initiated. The application business owner receives a list of existing business users, roles and access privileges. The application business owner then takes action to remove or change any incorrect privileges. 
4. Any change to the application business owner and/or delegate is to be updated as part of transition from current contact to new contact. 

IT User Access Review Best Practices 

IT users need to have access to the application back end to execute their responsibilities. IT users’ access privileges are dependent on their team and role. 

The application’s IT owner is responsible for the effectiveness of the user access review control for IT users. The owner can assign a delegate to assist with this activity, but the application’s IT owner remains accountable for this control and any violations. The IT owner is the custodian of the business data. Therefore, after the IT owner completes the access review, he or she must get approval from the application business owner to complete the user access review cycle. 

If the application business owner is not an IT expert, the application IT owner can set up a clarification session with the business owner to explain the application and the IT responsibilities. This effort can increase trust between the business team and the IT team and result in a more productive workplace, as improved trust enhances speed and reduces cost. 

 

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. 

Learn more information about the “User Access Reviews: Enabler for Digital Transformation”: 

https://www.securends.com/user-access-review-enable-for-digital-transformation/ 

What is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management?

 CIEM addresses cloud native security challenges of managing IAM in cloud environments. These challenges are often too complex and dynamic to be managed effectively by the native tools provided by cloud service providers (CSPs). The emerging CIEM category defines technologies that provide identity lifecycle and access governance controls, which ultimately reduce excessive cloud infrastructure entitlements and streamline least-privilege access controls across dynamic, distributed cloud environments. 

 

Key Challenges Managing Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements: 

1. Privileged Access Management. 

2. Identity Governance and Administration. 

 

For Privileged Access Management, a CIEM should: 

1. Monitor and prevent entitlement misuse. 

2. Assess the necessary duration of entitlements. 

3. Address the prolific nature of cloud entitlements. 

 

For Identity Governance & Administration, a solution should cover: 

1. Visibility, governance and compliance oversight. 

2. Monitoring excessive and risky entitlements. 

3. Rightsizing automation. 

 

SecurEnds pre-built integration with AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud platforms allows self-service access request to create users, groups and permissions with approval workflow and perform user access review for identity governance. SecurEnds unifies HR and IT, using employee data and updating into cloud platforms to inform the user provisioning and access control. 

 

Read More: https://www.securends.com/cloud-infrastructure-entitlement-management/ 

 

CIEM product provides the following features. 

• Multi-Cloud access control 

• Access provisioning 

• Entitlement management 

• Segregation of duties 

• Enforce least privileged access 

• Identity and entitlement risk 

• Identity and entitlement analytics 

• AI/ML based entitlement outliers 

• Access certification 

• Entitlement audits 

• Orphan accounts 

• Dormant accounts 

 

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