What is Identity Management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a security mechanism that uses an identity management system or platform to control authorized personnel accessing required resources.
Challenges of Traditional Identity Management
In traditional mode, enterprise user identities are scattered across individual application systems:
- Each application maintains an independent user system
- Account creation, modification, and deactivation must be performed in each system separately
- Offboarding account recovery is prone to omissions
- There is no unified access behavior audit
These pain points reduce IT O&M efficiency and create serious security risks.
IDaaS: Best Practice for Identity Management
IDaaS (Identity as a Service) is one of the best practices for implementing identity management. It delivers identity management capabilities as a cloud service, extending identity and permission management to various users and application systems without compromising security.
Core Capabilities
- Break down information silos: build a people-centric identity security governance system
- Unified risk control: uniformly control access behavior of internal employees, contractors, partners, public users, and other dimensions
- Compliance auditing: meet MLPS, GDPR, and other compliance requirements
- Lifecycle automation: automatic creation and one-click recovery of electronic identities
Efficiency Improvements
Through automated identity process management:
- When a new employee joins, the system automatically creates accounts and assigns permissions in each application
- When an employee transfers, the system automatically adjusts the permission scope
- When an employee leaves, the system automatically recovers all accounts, eliminating security backdoors
Automated management of electronic identities can effectively improve process efficiency and avoid security backdoors caused by improper manual operations.