{"id":4151,"date":"2019-01-10T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2019-01-10T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:05:26","slug":"why-identity-governance-should-be-a-business-process-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/why-identity-governance-should-be-a-business-process-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Identity Governance Should Be A Business Process Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2993\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod.jpg\" alt=\"Why Identity Governance Should Be A Business Process Priority\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2018\/07\/IAM-CEO-mod-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enterprise\u2019s digital environments become more complex by the day. More customer and proprietary data find its way into enterprise databases. The expansion of the digital ecosystem causes a proportional expansion of possible attack vectors. Employee identities become increasingly precious as enterprises consider their digital transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"iam-inject\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/identity-governance-and-administration-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"Identity Governance and Administration Buyer's Guide\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2019\/01\/identity-governance-administration-speedbump-cta.jpg\" alt=\"Download Link to Identity Governance and Administration Buyer's Guide\" width=\"800\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Managing those employees\u2019 identities through <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/understanding-enterprise-identity-governance-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity governance<\/a> should thus be a business process priority for all enterprises. Yet not enough businesses recognize the transformative power identity governance offers their workflows. They leave money on the table as long as this insight failure persists. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s why you should make identity governance a business process priority. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>IGA Relieves the Pressure on Your IT Team<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IT teams can quickly become overwhelmed by the sheer scale of their identity tasks. They need to: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monitor all of your employee\u2019s permissions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Provision and deprovision their credentials due to onboarding, offboarding, and role transitions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Handle temporary assignments via provisioning and deprovisioning. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Analyze employee permissions to look for discrepancies. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter how talented your IT team, they remain only human. They can make critical mistakes or neglect what may appear a low-priority issue for far too long. Potential security issues can slip them by without a solution to assist them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t get us wrong\u2014you still need human intelligence to make sure your IT environment remains secure. However, human intelligence alone is no longer enough. Making identity governance a business process priority allows you to take advantage of IGA\u2019s automated workflows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Automated workflows can streamline access requests, detect permission discrepancies, and handle temporary assignments to help your IT team prioritize other projects. With their time freed up, they can devote their attention to the true causes of concerns in your network. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>IGA Monitors the Non-Employee Identities on Your Network<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For years, enterprises confined their thinking around identity to their employees and privileged users. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Granted, that line of thinking remains far from outdated. However, it may no longer prove adequate. As enterprises scale their digital ecosystems, they incorporate third-party vendors and nonhuman identities such as applications into their business processes. Much like their human counterparts, these applications can have identity and permissions issues; these can cause disruptions to your business processes as they access databases they shouldn\u2019t or insert themselves into network areas to which they don\u2019t belong. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/2018-gartner-critical-capabilities-identity-governance-administration-key-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity governance<\/a> a business process priority means exerting concrete control over your network. You can use it to monitor and regulate the behaviors of your enterprises\u2019 nonhuman and third-party identities, ensuring they participate only in the necessary workflows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identity governance can segment and restrict, enforcing discipline when programs try to take advantage of every leniency. In this case, you can view identity governance not only as a cybersecurity measure but as a way to keep your workflows uncluttered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clutter is the enemy of productivity. Reducing it can only benefit your business. Speaking of which&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Identity Governance is a Productivity Enabler<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How long does it take to provision an employee\u2019s credentials? To deprovision it? To analyze, approve, or reject a temporary access request? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same answer applies to all of these questions: longer than you wish. All of them waste not only your IT team\u2019s time but the time of your employees awaiting the permissions necessary to do their jobs. Identity governance\u2019s automation allows your business to streamline these processes, saving your employees\u2019 crucial project time. The old adage \u201ctime is money\u201d holds true. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/reflection-2018-gartner-magic-quadrant-identity-governance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity governance<\/a> a business process doesn\u2019t have to be a radical proposition. It reaffirms your commitment to having the most competitive enterprise possible. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Cybersecurity Should be A Business Process Priority<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least half of all data breaches involve access management issues; these issues can include lapses in provisioning, deprovisioning, or access exceeding users\u2019 needs. Identity governance and administration solutions can prevent these issues from occurring. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why does preventing them matter? Not only will it prevent your enterprise facing hefty compliance issues, which can easily climb into the millions, but 68% of enterprises also lost customers as a result of a breach according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/insights-sailpoint\/2019\/01\/09\/cyber-today-governing-identity\/#2cdebc9741cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forbes and SailPoint<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simply put, a data breach results in long-term damage to your enterprise\u2019s bottom line. Making <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/5-key-capabilities-identity-governance-and-administration-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identity governance<\/a>, and cybersecurity in general, a business process priority keeps your bottom line intact. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision on whether to invest in cybersecurity seems much easier when you remember that. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise\u2019s digital environments become more complex by the day. More customer and proprietary data find its way into enterprise databases. The expansion of the digital ecosystem causes a proportional expansion of possible attack vectors. Employee identities become increasingly precious as enterprises consider their digital transformation. Managing those employees\u2019 identities through identity governance should thus be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[142,125,16,112,76,286,397,188],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Identity Governance Should Be A Business Process Priority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not enough businesses recognize the transformative power identity governance offers their workflows. 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