Dell Unveils Identity and Access Management as a Service – IAMaaS

Dell has announced at Dell World 2014 a new option for its Identity and Access Management solution that allows companies to forgo on-site deployment and management of enterprise grade IAM solutions: Identity and Access Management as a Service, or IAMaaS.
Dell’s particular IAM solution includes governance and provisioning on top of access control, “making all three tenets of IAM available in SaaS format to companies” according to the press release. According to the company website, each particular tenet will be offered as an individual module, and all together is called Dell One Identity as a Service.
Here is the Dell description of the IAMaaS solution:
- Dell One Identity as a Service for Provisioning —Automate the provisioning of new users and movers, as well as de-provision those that leave, enterprise-wide. Reduce help desk effort by enabling users to manage their own passwords without placing a call. Enable business-driven access decisions by putting control in the hands of line-of-business personnel through organizationally-defined approvals and workflows. Create reports, gather and view information on provisioning functions, policy, workflows and more.
- Dell One Identity as a Service for Governance— Enable line-of-business personnel to schedule and perform periodic attestations or recertifications, or perform these activities on demand. Define access policies for separation of duties, making it easy to implement both preventive and detected SoD-compliant access controls. Make governance easier through a unified set of intelligent enterprise roles based on established attributes and user access needs. Plus, enable the line-of-business to define these roles, so they can be used to move towards a governance-enabling role-based access control (RBAC) model. Create detailed and customized governance reports, and make that information easily accessible to those that need it for audit and compliance purposes through role-based dashboards.
- Dell One Identity as a Service for Access Control — Gain centralized visibility of — and control over — access with single sign-on (SSO) to cloud and web applications. Achieve just-in-time provisioning of cloud-based accounts in SFDC, Office 365, and Google apps. Unify access control across all web applications to ensure that users can access what they need, how they need it, without creating unnecessary risks. Enable users to manage their own password changes across any web application (on-premises, corporate-owned, or SaaS). Provide front-door access and step-up authentication to the web SSO and self-service password reset functionality. Make understanding and controlling user access easy through detailed and customized reports on all relevant access policy, activity and status.
This new options are part of a raft of new and improved services and solutions within Dell’s Security portfolio, all of which are designed to deliver “effective, scalable services and solutions that uniquely meet both immediate and future threat-protection needs,” according to a company statement. One example would be Dell’s new password reset feature, which allows users to reset their passwords without needing to contact IT. That particular feature will soon be included in all Dell Commercial Client systems.
Other solutions included data protection and storage as well as a demonstration of a 120 Gbps deep packet inspection firewall.
For the press release on Dell’s IAMaaS solution, click here.
And for an overview of the top Identity and Access Management solutions click here for the 2015 Solutions Review IAM Buyers Guide.