• Access Certification: Regular reviews and audits of user access rights to ensure they are appropriate is a key component of Identity Governance. The primary goal is to ensure the provisioning and deprovisioning processes align with internal policies and external regulations.
• Role Management: Dealing with individual entitlements, or pieces of access, can become very tedious. Roles are a way to bundle multiple entitlements into a single item – simplifying the onboarding, approval and certification processes. Managing the lifecycle, definition, assignment and creation of roles is another aspect of Identity Governance solutions.
• Policy Enforcement: Continuous evaluation of adherence to defined policies ensure consistent compliance with organizational rules and regulatory requirements.
• Reporting and Analytics: Internal compliance teams and external auditors want reports demonstrating adherence to defined policies are necessary and having these reports predefined can save organizations time. Additional insights, such as access patterns, role mining and potential security risks are often available as well.

• Enhanced Security: By ensuring that only authorized users have access to any information within the organization, Identity Governance helps prevent potential security breaches.
• Regulatory Compliance: Regulations such as HIPAA, SOX and PCI have defined governance requirements related to processes of provisioning and deprovisioning access to sensitive data, these tools can help streamline the process of meeting these compliance obligations and providing the necessary reporting to prove adherence.
• Operational Efficiency: Manual user access reviews and onboarding of new users into an organization can be very tedious. By defining roles to streamline onboarding and automation around user access reviews, your IAM Analysts can spend more time focusing on identifying risks and less time passing around spreadsheets.

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GCA Technology Services provides you with a consultancy team that specializes in helping clients identify and solve gaps in your organization’s Identity Governance system and its compliance reporting capabilities. By collaborating with our IAM Specialists, you are saying yes to a partnership that will allow your team to craft policies and controls that are guaranteed to suit your business identity, meet your regulatory requirements, strategize a successful IAM solution, and implement it to maximum effect.