An Introduction To Identity Access Management

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An Introduction To Identity Access Management
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Data breaches come in many forms, and
organisations need to govern user access to
prevent data loss. This is where identity access
management can support a reliable data protection
policy. Identity Access Management is a
framework for business processes that facilitates
the management of digital identities. This can
be used to initiate and record user identities
and their access permissions. It ensures only the
right people access certain information.
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The Known Threat
Look around your office. Its likely that 99.9
of the people you work with are trustworthy and
intelligent. However, emotion always causes risk.
The things to consider are 1 The guy you fired
but forgot to disable his remote access, 2
Espionage/Financial Gain, 3 Grudge 4
Ideology. When you apply strong emotion and any
of these points to ANY individual, a risk has
been created.
How do you manage this kind of risk? CONTROL user
access. Look at what users need to gain access
and then centralise their access.
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The Unknown Threat
Shared accounts and encrypted communications make
it difficult to know which privileged user is
doing what, where and when, especially in todays
virtual office environment. Ensure you have tools
to MONITOR and RECORD encrypted sessions.
An Introduction To Identity Access Management