Businesses are always growing and changing. There are small but common movements like promotions, layoffs and transfers, which require role and access changes. Then there are the larger and less common movements like mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations, which require big approval and provisioning changes. Regardless, the adaptations that must be made to keep up with a business's growth can be inefficient and risky without the proper technique.
Identity Governance - also known as Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) - is a set of security solutions that enables organizations to better scale for growth by managing identities and reducing access-related risks. Falling under the umbrella of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance allows organizations to better manage the access to varying systems by simplifying visibility of identities and access privileges of users. Overall, Identity Governance manages an organization's individual user accounts, roles, and access rights over the entire lifecycle of each identity. The key features of the Identity Governance solution are meeting regulatory compliance and ensuring user correct access.
COMPLIANCE
In this day and age, it is important that businesses are meeting compliance regulations like GDPR, SOX, and HIPAA in order to protect data privacy. The Identity Governance solutions are created with that exact purpose in mind. Its policies provide all of the reviews, proofs of access, and built-in reporting capabilities that are important to meet relevant government and industry regulations.
USER CORRECT ACCESS
Identity Governance policies center around providing users the correct access through a system of audited requests and approvals, usually based in a centralized portal. The simplified solutions to user access ensure that employees use the proper approval and fulfillment methods, thus mitigating the risk and the inefficiency of an organization's usual lifecycle management.