Identity and access management

Protect and monitor access to IT systems, applications and information

Organizations need a comprehensive approach to identity and access management to protect valuable IT assets from improper use and to monitor user access activities.

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IBM's vision for Identity and Access Management is to help clients manage and audit enterprise identity across the multi-perimeter enterprise, providing secure online access in today’s mobile, cloud and social environments.

IBM Identity and Access Management solutions can help customers improve governance, meet compliance needs, and reduce operational costs throughout the entire identity lifecycle. The solutions provide valuable intelligence to the business while also enforcing user access to data, applications and infrastructure across the interconnected enterprise.

IBM’s Identity and Access Management products offer:

Identity management –

Life cycle management - on-boarding users and assigning access rights, recertification, terminating access rights at the end of the user lifecycle
Identity control – Managing user roles and privileges, privacy controls, auditing,

Access management –

User authentication, including single sign-on (SSO), and enforcing access policies once the user has been authenticated.
Identity federation to share user authentication.

Security Intelligence – monitoring, auditing, and reporting on user activity, helping organizations facilitate compliance with policies and regulations, and reducing the risk of internal and external threats by monitoring user behavior.