Identity and Access Governance: Automating repetitive, consuming account management tasks

As organizations try to rein in technology budgets, IT staff members are constantly tasked with doing more and providing better services, all the while keeping costs and staff to a minimum. Couple this with increased usage of applications in the cloud, and the security issues entailed therein and you have a perfect combination for delays and disgruntled users.

One of the rapidly growing areas of technology is identity and access governance (IAG), which automates the repetitive account management tasks that can consume an inordinate amount of time from the IT staff. In addition, user accounts are created quickly, efficiently and securely.

There are two basic approaches to IAG: first, linking to an HR system to pull data on new employees, update changes to existing employees and terminated employees; second is to drive account management tasks to hiring managers or the employees themselves.

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