CloudAccess Identity Management Review

A Single Sign-On Solution That Goes Beyond Access Convenience

CloudAccess Identity Management delivers a single sign-on solution that goes beyond access convenience. This means such solution enables users to provide their employees, customers, partners, or constituents with a convenient and fast way to log in and access web, mobile, or on-premise applications, content, and resources from any device; and at the same time, it gives them a single pane of glass where they can centrally and automatically manage all activities and tasks related to access management.

Thus, it permits users and their IT teams to easily define who are allowed to access their applications and resources, handle all the identities needed for such access such as human resource profiles, e-mail accounts, usernames, telephone numbers, and physical access security badges; and specify the applications they are granting access to. In other words, the single sign-on solution gives users complete access management and control capabilities. They will be able to easily set up access policies and enforce them across their on-premise, SaaS, and external systems and applications.

Simplified Auditing, Compliance, And Reporting

Because CloudAccess Identity Management provides a single pane of glass for access management and control, it simplifies how users monitor compliance, generate reports, and prepare for audits. If they are conducting monitoring activities and creating reports to comply with PCI, HIPAA, or SOX requirements, that’s not a problem, as the solution makes sure that they are able to gain complete visibility into how their applications and resources are being accessed. They can also produce out-of-the-box reports for security and legal purposes, or to assess the performance of their operations.

Secure All Your Web Applications With An Interoperable Identity Gateway

CloudAccess Identity Management offers a high level of interoperability which makes it possible for users to protect their on-premise and web-based applications regardless of the application platform, access protocol, or identity infrastructure being used.

In fact, the solution has an identity gateway that can interoperate with all security tools and management solutions. This eliminates dependency on web access management software products which most of them are not equipped with policy agents needed to protect web-based applications. Thus, CloudAccess Identity Management has the capability to federate all web-based applications, streamlining the process of authorizing and enforcing user rights for web-based applications.

Automatic User Provisioning And De-Provisioning

With CloudAccess Identity Management, adding, updating, and removing user accounts and entitlements are done automatically. Thus, users can provision their newly hired employees and assign access levels, privileges, and entitlements to them in an automated manner without the need to deal with spreadsheets or rely on human resources. Likewise, de-provisioning can also be executed automatically. This is the moment when access is revoked from employees leaving the organization or those being terminated.

Enhanced Security

The level of automation in CloudAccess Identity Management optimizes security. Users are given the chance to add, adjust, and remove access rights, privileges, and entitlements based on specific identities and roles. This is to ensure that applications and resources will only be accessed by the right persons according to their authorized identities and current roles. So how does automation enhances security? When a person’s role or access right is changed, the level of access assigned to him or her is also modified and updated accordingly. So, when an employee assumes a new role or job function, his or her access rights and privileges are automatically adjusted, preventing such persons from accessing and using applications and resources that are not assigned to him or her. This reinforces the security policies and controls that the organization is setting up and implementing.

Utilize A Modular System And Scale Up

CloudAccess Identity Management is not just an identity management solution, but it is also a component of a modular system which functions as a comprehensive cloud security platform. It can be integrated with other software products and modules from CloudAccess, allowing the enablement of Web SSO, SaaS SSO, Security Information and Event Management or SIEM, Log Management, and on-premise and cloud application management. Therefore, CloudAccess Identity Management is a scalable solution. Users can add products and modules to the identity management solution as their organization or business grows so they can secure all their applications across public and private cloud environments.