Hitachi ID Identity Manager Overview
Identity Manager is enterprise user provisioning software. It reduces the
cost of user administration, helps new and reassigned users get to
work more quickly and ensures prompt and reliable access termination.
This is accomplished through: automatic propagation of changes to user
profiles from systems of record to managed systems; self service
workflow for security change requests; and consolidated and
delegated user administration. Identity Manager can manage users and
entitlements on over most common systems and applications using a rich
set of built-in connectors.
Identity Manager is a complete user provisioning solution that automates and simplifies the routine tasks of managing users across multiple systems. Enterprise-scale organizations depend on Identity Manager to ensure that their employees and contractors are securely and efficiently connected to vital systems and information.
Identity Manager implements the following business processes to drive updates to users and entitlements on managed systems:
- Automation: copies changes from one system to another.
- Self service: delegates change requests and approvals to users.
- Consolidation: allows administrators to manage multiple systems at once.
- Delegation: empowers departmental or regional administrators with limited authority.
- Fulfillment: gives other systems the ability to manage users through Identity Manager.
Identity Manager reduces the cost of user provisioning using:
- Automated user administration, which leverages information in other systems (HR, corporate directory) to automatically create or delete systems access
- Self-service user administration workflow, allowing users to request security changes, automatically routing them to suitable authorizers, tracking approvals and automatically implementing authorized changes
- Consolidated and delegated user administration, making security administrators more productive by enabling administration of multiple systems from a single point
Identity Manager strengthens security by:
- Enabling prompt and complete access deactivation across multiple systems.
- Automatically deactivating access for terminated users.
- Automatically detecting and deactivating or deleting orphan and dormant accounts.
- Enforcing authorization rules over security change requests.
- Implementing standards for the privileges assigned to new users.
- Subjecting security administrators to personal authentication, authorization and audit logs.
- Providing consolidated reports on user access to systems, which can be used to review compliance with security policy.
- Providing an audit log of all provisioning / deprovisioning events.
Read more:
- User Administration Challenges:
Challenges When Managing Many Users - Features:
This page introduces Identity Manager features, describing how Identity Manager provisions manages users in an enterprise network. - Benefits:
This page outlines business problems addressed by Identity Manager and summarizes its security, cost savings and user productivity benefits.. - Screen Shots:
A description of the Identity Manager web interface - Slide Presentations:
Slide presentations that illustrate the Identity Manager user provisioning solution