Automate Identity Governance and Administration and Continuous Monitoring of IT controls.
BAAR-IGA provides efficient and secure access control mechanisms for external users, ensuring seamless and controlled access to company resources and ultimately improving security and user experience.
Workflows can also be set up to manage the customer onboarding and off-boarding processes to automate them.
BAAR-IGA enables users to access multiple applications with one set of credentials, simplifying login processes and enhancing user experience in workforce identity management.
This solution can also be applied to legacy applications with no change to the application.
BAAR-IGA can add Multifactor Authentication (MFA), including biometric validation, to new age and legacy applications. This security measure requires users to provide two or more forms of identification before granting access to a system or application, adding an extra layer of protection beyond just passwords.
BAAR-IGA can provide Passwordless Access to new-age as well as legacy applications. This eliminates the need for traditional passwords, relying instead on alternative factors such as biometrics, hardware tokens, or mobile authentication apps. This approach simplifies the authentication process while bolstering security, offering a seamless and secure way for users to access systems and data.
BAAR-IGA offers a centralized authentication mechanism that allows users to access multiple applications and systems using a single set of credentials. It enables seamless and secure access management by establishing trust relationships between identity providers and service providers, facilitating the exchange of authentication and authorization information.
BAAR-IGA systematically regulates who can access or use corporate resources, determining entry and usage rights within an organization. In workforce identity, it verifies and grants employee credentials to ensure operational integrity and data security.
BAAR-IGA enhances security for privileged users by restricting access to critical systems and data, mitigating the risk of unauthorized use and potential breaches, ultimately safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining data integrity.
Passwordless privileged access and rotation of credentials after each time a privileged user accesses a system reduces risk.
BAAR-IGA simplifies the process of User Access Reviews for all systems (New age, legacy, On-prem, cloud). User Access Reviews in BAAR-IGA are of the following types:
User Access Reviews maintain security and compliance and minimize risks by regularly verifying and adjusting user permissions and protecting sensitive data.
BAAR-IGA continuously monitors for Segregation of Duties (SoD) conflicts. SoD management covers the following:
Segregation of Duties prevents conflicts of interest, fraud, and errors by dividing tasks, enhancing accountability, and ensuring operational integrity.
BAAR-IGA manages your identity and access policies continuously and fully automated. Examples of policies are:
Automated access management policies streamline security, improve efficiency, and reduce human error by enforcing consistent and timely access controls.
BAAR-IGA’s AI assigns a risk score to users using the following attributes:
Automated risk profiling proactively identifies and mitigates security threats, safeguards sensitive data, and maintains regulatory compliance effectively.
BAAR-IGA automates access controls, auditing, and compliance reporting, ensuring transparency, accountability, and adherence to regulatory requirements.
BAAR-IGA continuously monitors your systems for inappropriate access any users may have. Some examples are as follows:
BAAR-IGA self-tests and continuously monitors logical access controls before an internal or external audit (SOC, SOX), ensuring the operational effectiveness of the controls. Automated control testing increases efficiency, accuracy, and compliance while reducing human error, providing robust security and regulatory adherence.
BAAR-IGA manages the entire Identity Lifecycle in a fully automated manner. This includes the following:
Automating the identity lifecycle mitigates risks, saves time, enhances audit outcomes, improves onboarding processes, and reduces IT operational costs. The benefits are immediate and extensive.
BAAR-IGA automates provisioning, modification and de-provisioning of access based on a birthright for Applications (Legacy, On-prem, and Cloud), Network folders, SharePoint folders, Databases, Switches, Firewalls and more.
Access Lifecycle Management optimizes user access provisioning, modification, and de-provisioning, bolstering security, compliance, and resource utilization across organizations.
BAAR-IGA automatically revokes access or changes user roles based on the outcomes of user access reviews.
Automated access revocation post-user review enhances security, mitigates risks, ensures compliance, and minimizes unauthorized access, fostering robust data protection.
BAAR -IGA automates access provisioning, modifying and de-provisioning when a user is transferred within the organization.
Transfer Access Management ensures seamless user transitions within organizations, maintaining data security, minimizing disruptions, and preserving productivity.
BAAR-IGA finds violations for an identity across multiple security systems like: Privileged Access Management, User Behavior Analytics, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Systems, Endpoint Security Solutions and more.
Centralizing identity violations from all monitoring tools provides a unified view, streamlines response, enhances security and simplifies compliance reporting.
BAAR-IGA allows users to self serve for the below activities. Approval and process workflows can be customized:
The Self-Service Portal empowers users to manage their access, reducing administrative burden, improving efficiency, and enhancing user experience.
Workforce Identity Lifecycle Management streamlines the digital personas of employees, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring secure access control, compliance adherence, and efficient user privilege management throughout an employee’s tenure within your organization.
Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM), in terms of Administration, involves systematically managing user identities throughout their lifecycle within an organization. This includes user provisioning, de-provisioning, role management, access control, and policy enforcement. Effective ILM ensures that users access resources appropriately based on their roles and responsibilities while maintaining security and compliance. BAAR-IGA stands out as the best solution for ILM due to its comprehensive features, including automated provisioning and de-provisioning, role-based access control, self-service capabilities, workflow automation, and integration with HR systems. With BAAR-IGA, organizations can streamline identity management operations, enhance security, ensure compliance, and improve overall administrative efficiency.
BAAR-IGA helps verify the identity of your customers and assess associated risks effectively. Here are the key capabilities:
By automating provisioning and de-provisioning, BAAR-IGA reduces administrative overhead, enhances security, and ensures compliance with access policies.
By enabling self-service identity management, BAAR-IGA enhances user productivity, reduces helpdesk tickets, and improves overall user satisfaction.
By enforcing policy-based identity governance, BAAR-IGA strengthens security, reduces compliance risk, and facilitates alignment with organizational objectives.
By offering audit and compliance reporting, BAAR-IGA supports regulatory compliance efforts, simplifies audit preparations, and enhances transparency.
With RBAC, BAAR-IGA improves access governance, simplifies administration, and minimizes the risk of access-related security incidents.
With workflow automation, BAAR-IGA improves operational efficiency, reduces manual errors, and provides an auditable trail of identity management activities.
Integrating with HR systems, BAAR-IGA ensures accurate and up-to-date identity information, streamlines identity lifecycle management, and improves data integrity.
With scalability and performance, BAAR-IGA meets the needs of growing organizations, enables efficient identity management operations, and ensures uninterrupted service delivery.
Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) in the context of workforce identity is crucial for several reasons, underpinning the security, efficiency, and compliance of an organization’s operations. Let’s explore its importance:
The primary importance of ILM lies in bolstering security. By managing employee identities meticulously, ILM helps prevent unauthorized access to systems and data. This is crucial in safeguarding sensitive company information against internal and external threats. From the moment an identity is created, through its active use, to the point it is deactivated, ILM ensures that only the right individuals have access to the appropriate resources.
Organizations must often comply with various data protection and employee privacy regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, or SOX. ILM plays a vital role in ensuring compliance with these regulations. By managing how identities are created, maintained, and retired, ILM helps meet the stringent requirements set by these laws, thus avoiding potential legal and financial penalties.
ILM streamlines managing user access, which can otherwise be time-consuming and error-prone. With automated processes and transparent policies, ILM enables efficient user management, reduces the administrative burden, and enhances productivity. Employees get timely access to the necessary tools and information, which is critical in fast-paced business environments.
Implementing role-based access control (RBAC) within ILM ensures employees have access rights aligned with their job functions. This minimizes the risk of excessive privileges that could lead to security breaches while ensuring employees have what they need to be effective.
ILM facilitates better monitoring and auditing of access rights and activities. This is essential not only for compliance but also for detecting and responding to potential security incidents. With comprehensive logging and tracking, organizations can quickly identify unusual activities and take appropriate action.
The ability to manage an identity throughout its entire lifecycle – from creation to deletion – ensures that outdated or unnecessary accounts do not linger. This is crucial for minimizing ‘ghost’ accounts that can become security vulnerabilities.
In conclusion, ILM is not just a tool for IT departments in Workforce Identity; it is a comprehensive strategy that impacts and benefits the entire organization by enhancing security, ensuring compliance, streamlining operations, and reducing risks.
BAAR-IGA’s unique low-code interface simplifies the orchestration of complex identity management processes. With drag-and-drop functionality, IT professionals can easily create and modify workflows, significantly reducing deployment times and allowing for quick and agile responses to the changing business landscape.
Our solution unifies disparate systems—Cloud-based or on-premises, with API or without. BAAR-IGA ensures seamless access provisioning and consistent policy enforcement across the entire digital environment, thus eliminating silos and fostering a cohesive identity management strategy.
The platform provides instant access to compliance reports with the click of a button, ensuring that your organization stays ahead of the curve with up-to-date, comprehensive views of access controls, usage, and audit trails, all tailored to meet the stringent requirements of various regulatory frameworks.
Empower your workforce with user-friendly, self-service options such as password resets and access requests. This reduces the administrative burden on IT teams and accelerates user productivity by minimizing downtime and facilitating immediate access to the necessary tools and information.
The Bank, a prominent financial institution, recognized the need to streamline and automate its identity lifecycle creation processes within Active Directory (AD). Manual provisioning of user accounts and managing access permissions had become cumbersome, time-consuming, and prone to errors. The Bank sought a robust solution to automate identity lifecycle creation to address these challenges while ensuring compliance and enhancing security. After careful consideration, they chose BAAR-IGA, an advanced Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) product, to revolutionize their identity management practices.
Manual Identity Lifecycle Management: The Bank relied on manual processes for creating, modifying, and disabling user accounts in Active Directory, leading to inefficiencies and errors.
Complexity and Inconsistency: Maintaining consistency and accuracy in identity lifecycle management across the organization was challenging with a large workforce and multiple departments.
Security Vulnerabilities: Manual processes increased the risk of security breaches, unauthorized access, and insider threats, posing significant security concerns for The Bank.
The Bank deployed BAAR-IGA to automate identity lifecycle creation processes within Active Directory. The solution offered the following key features:
Automated User Provisioning: BAAR-IGA enabled automated provisioning of user accounts in Active Directory based on predefined rules and policies, eliminating manual intervention and reducing the time required for user onboarding.
Integration with HR Systems: The solution seamlessly integrates with the bank’s HR systems, enabling automatic synchronization of employee data and ensuring user accounts are created and updated accurately based on HR records.
Customizable Workflows: BAAR-IGA allowed The Bank to define customizable workflows for identity lifecycle management, ensuring consistency and adherence to internal policies and regulatory requirements.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): The solution facilitated RBAC, enabling The Bank to assign appropriate access rights and permissions to users based on their roles and responsibilities, enhancing security and reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
Automated Access Reviews: BAAR-IGA automated access reviews ensure access rights are periodically reviewed and adjusted as needed, mitigating the risk of excessive permissions and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Improved Efficiency: By automating identity lifecycle creation processes, The Bank significantly reduced the time and effort required for user provisioning, increasing operational efficiency and productivity.
Enhanced Security: BAAR-IGA helped The Bank strengthen its security posture by automating access control processes, enforcing RBAC, and reducing the risk of security breaches and insider threats.
Increased Compliance: The solution enabled The Bank to achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, SOX, and PCI DSS by enforcing consistent identity management practices and facilitating audit trails.
Cost Savings: By automating manual processes and reducing the risk of security incidents, The Bank realized cost savings associated with identity management operations and avoided potential financial losses due to security breaches.
Streamlined Operations: BAAR-IGA streamlined identity lifecycle creation processes, enabling the bank to manage user accounts efficiently, enforce access controls, and maintain accurate user records within Active Directory.
By implementing BAAR-IGA for automating identity lifecycle creation in Active Directory, The Bank overcame the challenges associated with manual processes, complexity, and security vulnerabilities. The solution improved operational efficiency and security, ensured compliance with regulatory requirements, and reduced costs. The Bank continues to leverage BAAR-IGA to adapt to evolving identity management needs while maintaining a secure and compliant IT environment.
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