Thursday, October 8, 2020

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.

Check us on Gartner Peer Insights or Capterra.

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

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.
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Sunday, August 9, 2020

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”.


Click to know more information:

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/