Tuesday, 15 January 2008

IDM automatic detection and remidiation

Staying in compliance with your security policy. The easy way!

One of the many functions which an Identity Management System provides is enabling your organization to become compliant with a predefined security policy. In effect it can also help to make sure that you stay in compliance as your IT environment changes.

The fact that an IDM system conveys an overall (real time) view of all your security sensitive and critical application, stored in well defined schema gives you automatically the capability to analyse the data in the IDMS and compare it with the current security policy.
By being able to extract such information you can always have a realistic conformance level against your security policy.

Since the extracted data are also very well defined and structured the IDM system has the functionality to intervene to all the managed systems and run corrective actions in order to restore the last good compliance level.