All the security monitoring and defenses in the world cannot stop a person armed with stolen credentials or password. It is this fact that makes the management of user identities so critical. With a proliferation of business applications comes a proliferation of user logons. Some organizations can have a dozen or more critical systems, all using different authentication schemes.

Identity management aims to centralize and coordinate the management, provisioning, monitoring and revocation of user accounts and identities. Identity Management (IM) is a complex, business challenge that goes beyond technology. It can involve multiple layers of operations and cross all aspects of the business.

Benefits of Identity Management

Improving your identity repositories, user provisioning and account management has numerous business benefits:

• Significantly improve employee productivity with reduced and single sign-on as well as self-service rights provisioning.
• Greatly improve enterprise security while lowering organizational risk with consistent and uniform role based access.
• Improve intra-organizational efficiencies with the ability to quickly build and dismantle access rights.
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with efficient, unified management and monitoring systems.
• Clear path to regulatory compliance through the implementation of concise and comprehensive audit and access policies.
• Create a more agile and modular infrastructure that can adapt quickly to application and network changes.

ForceOne has built an identity management practice around our time-honored scientific principles. Since we are not tied to any specific technology, we can guide your organization though the IM process ensuring that technology selection, integration and implementation are tied together with an effective strategic plan.

Typical Component of an IM Project:

• Analysis, Design & Planning
  Our professional services group can analyze your existing business and develop an identity management strategy that is perfectly suited to your business and requirements.
• Technologies
  ForceOne supplies numerous different authentication, single-sign on and identity management products. We can integrate many different solutions providing comprehensive, centralized identity management.
• User Account Auditing 
  ForceOne can audit your existing authentication system for security weakness and suggest methods to improve its security. This can include a comprehensive audit of all user accounts.
• Strategic Vision, Practical Implementation
  With ForceOne, your IM project will have the independent, objective insight you need to enforce a clear strategic vision, without sacrificing practical implementation benefits. IM projects can be very complicated. With ForceOne at the helm, you are guaranteed rational advice based on empirical analysis.

Contact ForceOne for additional information or assistance.