What is identity and access management (IAM) and why do I need it?
IAM refers to a framework of policies, technologies, and processes that organizations use to manage and control user access to systems, applications, and data within a company. IAM ensures that the right individuals (or entities, like applications or devices) have the appropriate access to resources based on their identity and roles.
Identity management involves creating, maintaining, and deleting user identities (e.g., usernames and email addresses) securely and centrally. This ensures that users are correctly identified within the organization’s system.
Authentication
Authentication is simply verifying that a user is who they claim to be. This can be achieved through methods including passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometrics, or hardware tokens.
Authorization and Access Controls
After authentication, authorization ensures that a user has permission to access certain resources or perform specific actions. It is typically based on roles, as in role-based access control (RBAC), attributes, as in attribute-based access control (ABAC), or policies defined by the organization. VTG helps you by establishing and enforcing rules and policies that govern access to various resources, such as applications, networks, databases, and files.
Auditing and Monitoring
VTG implements IAM systems to track user activities, access attempts, and policy violations. This is essential for compliance, security auditing, and identifying unusual behavior or potential security threats.
Provisioning and De-Provisioning
VTG manages the entire life cycle of an identity by creating, managing, and removing user access rights and credentials. This is crucial for ensuring that users have access only to the resources they need and that access is promptly revoked when no longer necessary.
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IAM refers to a framework of policies, technologies, and processes used to manage and control user access to systems, applications, and data. It ensures that the right individuals or systems access resources appropriately, improving security and operational efficiency.
IAM is essential for maintaining security and compliance in an organization by ensuring that only authorized individuals or systems can access sensitive data and resources while also providing an efficient and secure user experience.
Authentication verifies a user’s identity using methods like passwords, MFA, or biometrics. Authorization, on the other hand, ensures the authenticated user has permission to access specific resources or perform certain actions, based on defined roles, attributes, or policies.
VTG provides full lifecycle management for user identities, from creating and provisioning access rights to securely de-provisioning them when no longer needed. This minimizes risks associated with orphaned accounts or unauthorized access.
“VTG is the primary I.T. provider at my place of work. After many years of frustration with our prior provider, whose service quality eroded to the point we were generally fixing any problems we could before consulting them, the switch to VTG has been a breath of fresh air. We made the change a few years ago, and noticed an immediate difference.
VTG maintains a layout of our I.T. infrastructure, which helps them be faster with identifying sources of issues. VTG maintains a team which is efficient and thorough in correcting issues when they arise, and just as importantly, following up to ensure fixes continue to work, and do not come with unexpected consequences.
As someone who spent 20 years with a team who provided technical support in an electronics field, I’m always impressed with VTG’s process. It it one of logic. Identify the issue via the most efficient means possible, identify the best solution for the issue, then ensure the client is pleased with the result.
Every member of the VTG team seems to have this skill set. Special shout outs to those I come in contact with most frequently. Joey, Ruan, Brad, and Bradley have all been great, and I suspect the other folks at VTG meet this same lofty standard.”
– Brank Edwards
Top 3 Reasons Companies Choose VTG for Identity and Access Management
Secure and Efficient Access Control
Comprehensive Identity Management
Auditing and Compliance
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