Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)

Your organisation has forty-three applications. Each one manages its own users. Each one has its own provisioning process, its own access review cycle, its own offboarding checklist item, and its own audit log in its own format. In normal operations, this is manageable. Imperfectly, slowly, with more manual effort than any IT team would choose, … Continue reading Identity Fragmentation: The Hidden Cost of Managing IAM Across Multiple Applications

Your SCIM provisioning connector ran its last sync six hours ago. It failed. Nobody received an alert. Nobody knows. The employee who left the organisation this morning still has active entitlements in the three applications connected through that SCIM integration. The access revocation that should have happened at offboarding ran, the IGA platform recorded the … Continue reading SCIM Connector Failures Are Silent. The Access Gaps They Leave Are Not.

What is the most sensitive system in your organisation? Not the most technically complex. The one with the highest concentration of data that would cause the most damage if a former employee retained access to it after leaving. For most manufacturing, financial services, and retail organisations, the answer is SAP. The general ledger. Accounts payable. … Continue reading Your Offboarding Checklist Has a Gap. It’s Called SAP.

A provisioning record captures a point-in-time entitlement decision: this user was granted access to this application on this date. It records that the door was opened. It contains no information about whether anyone has walked through it since. An access usage record captures an event: this user authenticated and launched this application at this timestamp … Continue reading Provisioned Access and Accessed Access Are Two Different Datasets.

Defensible audit evidence for an access grant has a specific technical definition. It is not a confirmation that the access exists. It is not a record that the access was provisioned. It is a structured record of a formal authorization decision: the identity of the person who approved the access, their authority to approve it, … Continue reading Informal Access Provisioning Produces No Defensible Audit Evidence.

  Provisioning and de-provisioning are critical processes in managing access to data and systems within an organization. Proper provisioning ensures new employees receive the access rights they need to perform their jobs effectively. Conversely, de-provisioning ensures access is promptly revoked when an employee leaves the organization, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information. Failing to provision … Continue reading Save Costs and Boost Security with Automated User Provisioning and Deprovisioning

In the ITeS and BPO industry, striking the right balance between productivity and security can mean the difference between success and failure. Security breaches can have serious financial and reputational consequences, but at the same time an excessive tilt to security at the cost of efficiency can hurt competitiveness. Let’s dive a little deeper into … Continue reading Boost security, streamline operations: Here’s how IAM can help your ITeS/BPO business

Cyber threats can affect any educational setting, from elementary schools to universities, whether online or brick-and-mortar. Limited resources, budget constraints, outdated software, and inadequate security systems, cause some of the biggest risks.  Education ranks as the fifth most targeted industry for security breaches in the United States, with more than 1600 publicly disclosed cyberattacks on … Continue reading The urgent need for Identity & Access Management at Universities and Educational Institutions

When onboarding new employees, it’s important to keep the process as simple as possible. When all new user activity occurs in a single system, onboarding, especially remote onboarding, becomes seamless and effortless. If your onboarding system is integrated with Akku, or if you use Akku itself as the onboarding system, this system becomes the first … Continue reading The simpler way to manage Remote Employee Onboarding