Identity Management Overview

Identity Management Challenges

Problem	Issues for Users	Issues for Administrators
Lack of centralized user management feature	Too many identities and credentials to manage	Frequent calls to the help desk for password resets and account updates
Lack of centralized web authorization and authentication service	Multiple log-ins to different applications within the enterprise	Inconsistent application security policies
Manual user provisioning process	Delays in getting needed access to applications	Labor intensive, error prone, and difficult to keep in compliance
Lack of identity federation support	Multiple log-ins to applications hosted outside the enterprise	Managing authorization credentials for outside users

Identity Management overview

    Identity Management (IDM) describes the management of individual identities, their authentication, authorization, roles, and privileges/permissions within or across system and enterprise boundaries with the goal of increasing security and productivity while decreasing cost, downtime, and repetitive tasks.

1.Central infrastructure to manage users, roles and access to resources

2.Provisioning capabilities

3. Workflow management

4. Self registration and management

5. Password Policy/Password reset capability

Identity Management - Benefits

       Increasing security and productivity
Decreasing cost, downtime, and repetitive tasks.
Extensive User management
Improve Operational efficiency
Better End User Experience 

    Streamlines partner integrations.
Provides single and multi-domain Single Sign On - solutions