Are you still managing end-users as disjointed entities across IT systems?
When end-users have to constantly request access-privileges and remember passwords across a multitude of systems, productivity suffers. Moreover, when end-user access must be quickly removed across those same systems – one system at a time - security suffers.
Business Impact of
Disjointed Identity Management |
Hard-Costs |
Soft-Costs |
- Loss of productivity
- Increased support costs
- Loss of sensitive data from poor security
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- Loss of business
- Unreliable work environments
- End-user dissatisfaction
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The achievable goals of Federated Identity management are to allow individuals and devices within an organization to function as a single identity across the IT systems of multiple enterprises.
Federated Identity systems allow organizations to extend identity management across the entire value chain providing secure, auditable access to both people and systems.
Benefits of Federated Identities include the following:
Business Impact of
Federated Identity Management |
Hard-Benefits |
Soft-Benefits |
- Enhanced security
- Lower support costs
- Policy and regulatory compliance
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- Increased end-user productivity
- Improved end-user experience
- Enhanced collaborative environments
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Federated Identity Management can increase productivity and facilitate an enhanced end-user experience.
Ensynch has the skill and experience to provide comprehensive identity management solutions that provide automated and self-service capabilities for secure management of passwords, end-users, and access privileges.
Request more information Ensynch's Federated Identity Management solutions.
QUIZ: Should Your Company
Share Identities? |
| We contract out employee services, and we want providers to appear as if they were part of our company. |
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| We provide consumer services with partners, and we want to give users a common log-in system. |
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| Our company has authorized a number of customers or suppliers to access applications on our network. |
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| Customers or suppliers have offered us access to their applications. |
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| Some business partners have expressed active interest in federated identity technology. |
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| We are comfortable being an early adopter of technologies that are still being refined |
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Score:
6 Trues: Join the federation.
4-5: Get some experience with the technology and use it more aggressively as it matures.
3-0: Avoid the leading edge for now. |
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