05 May From Access certification fatigue to Access insight!
Organizations must perform Access Certification to effectively meet audit and compliance requirements, and improve its overall risk posture. However with large number of applications and use access reviews, organization go through “access certification fatigue” i.e. Reviewers do not have entitlement information and context necessary to make informed access-review decisions, leading to retaining existing user access (rubber stamping).
Confluxsys Identity Analytics solution along with data visualization tools helps organizations navigate from “access certification fatigue” to “access insight” by providing identity analytics and an intuitive user interface with all the context and activity data in one place.
Excel driven context based Access Certification – familiar and efficient user experience:
Confluxsys Identity Analytics solution (IAP) leverages your existing IAM investments to reduce rubber stamping, time and cost of running certification campaign, by providing simplified and familiar (excel-like) user experience with context and activity data. IAP utilizes the familiarity and logical approach of excel spreadsheet along with contextual information for reviewing and recording access decisions; while doing away with laborious, error-prone and in-consistent (traditional) creations process.
Monitor, track and follow-up Certification Review Progress:
It is not adequate to simply automate the certification process; access certification process requires continuous tracking and follow-ups. While the spreadsheet based interface helps improve usersatisfaction, the Certification dashboard allows Certification Administrators to monitor and track over-all certification progress. The interface allows to track process by reviewer’s reporting manager and provide means to follow-up on delayed reviews.
Analyze and gain Insight:
Confluxsys Identity Analytics solution along with data visualization tools helps organizations navigate from “access certification fatigue” to “access insight” by providing identity analytics and an intuitive user interface with all the context and activity data in one place. By analyzing and gathering feedback from each certification campaign run, our solution builds more insight and knowledge for the next one!
Our analytics solution helps analyze access certification patterns and data quality: top five reasons for access remediation, percentage approval on privileged accounts, approvals / extensions of temporal access, entitlement data quality vs access approval decision, etc.
The key driver is to constantly Analyze and Improve existing practices, rather than simply understand & automate the current process!