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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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.

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Protect Reputation - Online Reputation Protection Services

Your online reputation could change in an instant if you're not on top of it. That’s why it’s critical to take consistent, proactive steps to mitigate future negativity before it starts, no matter how good your reputation is right now.

Reputation management works best when it's monitored and improved over time. The best results are achieved through careful, meaningful actions rather than surface-level "quick fixes."

How reputation protection works

Think of your brand’s Online Reputation Protection Services as a public credit score for your business that’s a combination of:

• Branded search results
• Online reviews
• Editorial content
• Online images
• Social media
• ...and more

Challenge

Unlike companies that sell goods or services, non-profits run a much bigger challenge in-event of the data breach. Consumers are less willing to trust non-profits after a data breach. Any non-profit organization that processes donations or stores and transfers donor’s personally identifiable information (PII) must take serious steps to address cybersecurity risks. Additionally, any US non-profits that raises money in the European Union, or provides services to citizens of the EU, including collecting data about those citizens, must follow the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.

Our Approach

We recently partnered with a non-profit to put together comprehensive access and entitlement review program for its 4,300 Clubs serve nearly 4 million young people through club membership and community outreach. Using SecurEnds CEM and ILM, a multi-tenant, SaaS module, we created a powerful governance and provisioning/ de-provisioning solution that will be used by the non-profit to evaluate and remediate potential attack vectors. The CEM module will allow recurring automated access review campaigns that validate users within systems and ensure their access rights are appropriate while ILM module will drive the management of dormant and orphan accounts.

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

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Identity governance for access certification and reducing the risk of excessive access

Companies face a multitude of security compliance regulations and governances. The core of security compliance is accesses control. It is challenging to manage access control compliances for applications, databases, network devices, and cloud apps. Most companies are affected by regulatory compliance obligations and are subject to industry regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) or GDPR.

Companies have extreme difficulties in organizing and executing user access reviews to meet various compliances, such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, and GLBA. SecurEnds SecurIGA is identity governance and access control compliance product that integrates any system in the enterprise with access control workflow by integrating with endpoints such as Active Directory, SharePoint, Office 365, Salesforce, SAP, AWS, Azure, Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, Jira, ServiceNow, etc.

This product can be configured to extract user credentials and entitlement details from endpoints both manually and automatically. Additionally, it matches with the HR user data to create IAM users in a centralized repository for managers to review. It provides identity governance to users’ access reviews and provides updates to the user access privileges to complete the access management workflow.

Key features of the product

• Disruptive product for Identity and Access Governance for all enterprises
• Manage and track access provisioning for new users
• Limit users and access points to confidential data
• Consolidated view of user access rights
• Periodic user access and entitlement review
• Eliminate unauthorized or orphaned users
• Manage user access de-provisioning
• User access certification
• Provide evidence of compliance in the audit process
• Easy to leverage the product for short term projects including PCI, SOX or HIPAA compliance
• Evaluate access controls for potential target companies during M&A.

Key product differentiating factors

• Our product closes the gap in your enterprise with Identity governance and compliance for systems that are integrated as well as those that are not integrated to Identity Access Management.
• Most Identity governance solutions need 18-24 months installation/customization and cost millions of dollars compared to our solution
• Our product can be installed and configured in few weeks.
• Access Control Compliance product manages the access control compliance for applications, databases, network devices and cloud apps. We offer on-premise and cloud offering of our products. Our products will be configured to provide solution for your organization.

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