Identity and access management (IAM) sits at the very core of effective security. But what exactly is IAM? And, how can it improve my security stance? It seems to be too complex, too broad and too expensive for my needs.
Read on to learn the answers to your questions and to see how IAM – or key aspects of it – are exactly what your organization needs.
Today, more than ever, organizations must address the proliferation of cloud-based applications. While these apps often provide convenient and flexible access for employees and customers, they also present a new set of management and security challenges for IT and line-of-business managers.
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) administration and management includes 12 major tasks. These tasks cover a wide breadth of business needs and are not all performed solely by AD DS administrators. In fact, administrators can and should delegate several tasks to other members of their technical community, technicians, help desk personnel, even users such as team managers and administrative assistants. While delegation is a way to reduce the amount of work administrators have to do when managing AD DS infrastructures, it really only addresses one or two of the 12 tasks, for example, user and group administration as well as end point device administration. The other ten tasks can be staggering in nature — security, networked service administration, OU-Specific Management, Group Policy Object management and many more — and because of this can take up inordinate amounts of time,
To protect refugees, employees and supply transports—plus minimise costs—the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) wanted to standardise the management of Active Directory. After evaluating solution options, DRC deployed One Identity Active Roles. As a result, DRC established user templates and automated workflows for governing access for 7,000 global employees. Today, DRC can provision new users in an hour. IT staff have greater control over who can access which applications and data. And the organisation has increased staff efficiency, boosted savings and simplified regulatory compliance.
Active Directory is everywhere and Azure Active Directory (AAD), its cloud-based cousin, is quickly gaining ground. Currently, nearly ninety percent of organizations worldwide are using Active Directory (AD) for on-premises resources (aka on-prem). That represents 500 million organizations and somewhere around 10 billion daily authentications. In fact, in the world of identity and access management (IAM), AD has become unavoidable and absolutely necessary for on-prem user authentication and authorization. You have to go through AD. It’s just how it’s done. Now, mix in the cloud – and Azure AD– and your management complexity just skyrocketed – and you could be in for a world of pain, if your on-prem or cloud identity environments are not managed and synced properly.
It's a dynamic marketplace and financial services to succeed your business needs agility and flexibility. But that has to be balanced with security. Well, that's what you get with Citrix workspace .
Studies show that employees spend 20 percent of their time just searching for information that's equivalent to losing one day's productivity per week. The financial services world is no different, but Citrix Workspace can change all of that.
Technology drives change in business and financial services. That means employees need apps, data and their information securely on any device at any time. But administrators still need resiliency, high availability and the flexibility to use any cloud, public or private, to deliver these services. And this application delivery fabric is built right in to Citrix workspace.
Citrix Workspace makes it easy to transact. Banking, financial services or insurance business. It organizes guides and automates work, providing a better employee experience which leads to more productivity and engagement and ultimately a better customer experience. Citrix Workspace is transforming the way people work.
In the 2020 Tealium State of the CDP Report, we asked over 300 U.S. decision makers in marketing and data/analytics how they are leveraging CDPs today, the challenges they face with current vendors and their future plans for CDP technology. The results reveal that many organizations are still searching for the right solution: 58% of respondents with CDPs said they are planning to switch to a different provider within the next 12 months.
Something needs to change for customer data to reach its full potential. Businesses need greater clarity into what CDPs do, how to select the right CDP and how to optimize the technology — or they risk missing out on enormous CDP benefits.
To stay competitive in an increasingly digital world, businesses must become masters of data. By 2020, more than seven billion people & companies, and at least 35 million devices, will be wired to the web. Success now depends on not only keeping up with fast paced digital innovation, but also harnessing the continual data explosion it creates; and this will mean a sizeable shift in the way companies handle their insights.
With the growing importance of customer insights in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight from customer data and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business transformation. This increased profile has elevated the customer insights role from data geeks feeding the marketing funnel to critical change agents and strategic business partners. It has also made it crucial for companies to have a coherent and consistently executed customer data strategy. In order to seize the opportunity presented by this shift in data’s role, companies must plot a deliberate strategic course — beginning with a clear-eyed assessment of their current capabilities and needs.
You hear about it all the time. Compromised passwords are sold on the dark web, granting criminals access to businesses' most sensitive applications and data. However, 90% of businesses support users who utilize the same password for multiple accounts.
Organizations are now adopting tools to enable real-time password policy enforcement with daily password auditing and automated remediation to improve security without increasing IT workload.
With these tools, they can implement compromised password detection, a custom password dictionary, fuzzy matching with common character substitutions, and continuous daily checks of passwords. They can also easily and quickly adopt NIST password requirements and eliminate vulnerable passwords in Active Directory.
Learn more about how automation for password policy enforcement and NIST password guidelines can help your organization.
The most debated topic in the NIST password standards is the guideline to end the policy of password expiration. These forced monthly, quarterly, or periodic password resets are a frustration for many employees, and they are proven to increase IT help desk costs.
Organizations need to secure applications and systems, but employee password reuse across different applications remains a problem. So what can organizations do to protect Active Directory?
They can adopt password filtering for weak, similar, and compromised passwords. Read this article to understand how.