The challenges

During a recent inventory of the systems and functions that their IT department supported, a number of challenges were found. We will now have a look at some of the identity management (IdM)-related challenges that were uncovered.

Provisioning of users

The Financial Company discovered a new employee or contractor may wait up to a week before accounts are provisioned to the various required systems, and the correct access is granted to each person to do his/her job. The Financial Company would like account provisioning and proper access granted within a few hours.

The identity life cycle procedures

A number of identity life cycle management issues were found.

Changes in roles took way too long. Access based on old roles continued even ...

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