Identity Management

Knowing who in a corporation is accessing certain application data used to be a demanding but trivial issue. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) changes the "trivial" concern into a major compliance issue for most public companies. To meet the provisions of Section 302 and Section 404, companies must file SEC reports assessing their internal control structures and financial reporting procedures. With SOX, the SEC wants to know who was in what information systems, why were they there, and by what authority are them provide access to data, all to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting.

Besides these regulatory compliance factors, today's business success strategies increasingly require IT support systems to manage interdependent applications and data across distributed systems, while providing access with integrity. By building and maintaining a resilient infrastructure, security and IT operations can leverage each other's expertise to prevent attacks and preserve business continuity. To build this resilient infrastructure with secure access, companies must understand their information environment, act to successfully address both vulnerabilities and opportunities, and control IT resources to proactively manage risk and keep business up and running.

This secure access is the foundation of Identity Management. Best practices require companies garner the ability to discover, maintain, protect and analyze the access of every user to specific applications and data while ensuring the ability to deliver this information to the right people and information systems at the right time.

Ask yourself, "Can I provide a current and accurate list of all user accounts on my network and systems, matrixed against all applications and data stores, with up-to date user login and access privileges?" "Do all users have access to only the specific applications they need to do their job function?" If you answered 'No' to these questions, Identity Management may be in your future.

NSAi has teamed with Hewlett Packard to offer our clients' two OpenView products that help solve the Identity Management problem in today's enterprise environments. HP's products, Select Access and Select Identity can provide a standalone or a comprehensive solution to deploying Identity Management at your company. NSAi engineers are trained to evaluate your unique requirements and to deploy quickly the HP Identity Management solution that will deliver fast ROI.