Identity Governance and Administration
Why IGA
We are living at a time where the state of Information Security is occupied with a long list of complex government and organizational laws aimed at defeating security and privacy concerns. To its core it’s the Data Management and that core priority comes to Identity and Access Management. Being able to centrally manage users, having an inventory of their access, rights, privileges across all the systems they have and can access to. Being able to understand why someone gained access to a particular system.
Today majority of breaches originate from privilege failures or abuse within the organization, but it’s challenging for organizations to ensure that workers and other users have a level of access in line with business and compliance policies.
“Forester estimates that 80% of the security breaches involve privileged credentials”
IGA Essentials
Adopting a Zero Trust Model
Verify everything, trust nothing. Today’s reality is that breaches start within whether its malicious or unintentional. Make no assumptions or trust the integrity of your security in your organization. The zero trust model begins with identity-driven security that puts a modern identity and access management (IAM) system at the core of your organization’s security program. Key components of an effective IAM system include automated lifecycle management for both internal and external users, comprehensive identity governance, privileged access management, and integrated multi-factor authentication (MFA) capabilities.
Principle of Least Privilege
Least privilege refers to the concept and practice of restricting access rights for users, accounts, to only those resources absolutely required to perform routine, authorized activities. This is critical for an IAM system to provide access appropriate to someone’s work function or job duty and make any additional ad-hoc access requestable with approvals and also detect any direct access that may be given to user directly in the system.
Visibility and Balance
Knowing and controlling at all times who has access to what information—and when and why they accessed data—is the kind of transparency and risk management organizations need in order to protect themselves and remain in compliance.
Achieve sustainable compliance
Repeatable detection and preventive—and resolution—processes. That’s what sustainable compliance means. An organization that can flag problems quickly, in an automated process, and immediately fix the issue in a documented and report-able way will benefit. Yes, the organization will avoid millions of dollars in fines and penalties, but it will also improve efficiency by replacing manual processes and adding self-service that lets managers and end users make changes on the fly. Security and compliance become one. Single, cohesive policy-based process for privileged and non-privileged users to effectively manage access requests, approvals, certifications, violations and remediation. Discover and classify sensitive information where they exist.
Myths
Security and compliance are not separate issues. You can be secure by being complaint. Compliance laws are written for the purposes of data integrity and privacy in mind.
Compliance alone is not enough. Data breaches have long taken center stage, attackers want to have access to PHI data. Approximately half of the healthcare data breaches in 2016 where attributed to insiders, whether be it intentional or accidental. These insiders are typically Contractors, Vendors, partners who have access to sensitive data such as Electronic Health Records (HER)
Our philosophy and How we can help?
Being experts in Information Security, We at Brightleafs believe at becoming the ‘Trusted Advisors’ your organization will need in implementing the IGA/IAM Roadmap. Using this expertise and experience we can provide the best talent to meet your organizational goals and requirements.
We are specialists in finding the right resources who are experts with the following vendors:
SailPoint
Okta
PING
CyberArk
Thycotic