Identity and Access Management in the Cloud
Leverage cloud computing to significantly lower your enterprise security risks and costs.
Lighthouse Gateway™ is an industry-leading, next-generation platform for Enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM). A cloud-computing alternative to conventional on-premise IAM infrastructure, Lighthouse Gateway considerably reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while providing clients with an ease of management, quick time to market, and compliance with industry regulations.
Lighthouse Gateway Reduces Enterprise Security Costs
• No high-priced
infrastructure hardware
to purchase
• Minimal or no out-of-
pocket start-up costs
• No need to hire or train
specialized security
engineering professionals
• Dramatically reduced
time-to-market by
eliminating infrastructure
re-invention
• Dramatically reduced
regulatory compliance
costs through compliant-
ready Lighthouse
Gateway services
• No costly engineering
overhead thanks to
Lighthouse Gateway’s
innovative, point-and-
click administration
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Best-of-Breed Technologies as a Managed Service
Built upon industry-leading IBM® Tivoli® security software and bred from military roots, the foundation of the award-winning Lighthouse Gateway is time-tested and secure. The Gateway affords you a proven, massively-scalable, and highly available solution with Fortune 500 quality infrastructure and 24x7x365 support – all within a SAS70 Type II Certified datacenter.
While delivering all the benefits of a complete enterprise IAM infrastructure, Lighthouse Gateway significantly reduces traditional capital and operating expenses associated with an on-premise solution. Large capital expenditures on hardware and professional services to initially build such an infrastructure are a thing of the past, while costly surprise operating expenditures for maintenance, upgrades, specialized staff, and support are no longer line items in your budget. Additionally, because the Gateway is a cloud computing platform, your datacenter footprint and associated costs, for services such as power, cooling, and rack-space, will not increase.
Lower Your Risks, Eliminate Costs
Whether you are considering a new in-house IAM solution, or you are burdened by the cost of your current infrastructure, let Lighthouse lead you in your migration to cloud computing. Leading companies within financial services, insurance, and retail are among those who have already chosen Gateway as their IAM platform in the cloud!
“VantisLife was facing an initial cost of ownership investment in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, with a four- to six-month startup window, to meet enhanced security and regulatory compliance standards. Instead, with the Lighthouse Gateway solution, we have a state of the art security solution, at a fixed monthly service fee that will cost us less over three years than the cost of the initial stand-up of a wholly owned and operated infrastructure -- and we went from assessment to implementation in just six weeks.”
-Jim Lovelace, Associate VP of IT, VantisLife Insurance
Take the next step in the evolution of the enterprise. Enter the Cloud.
We are entering a new era in enterprise computing. By delivering hosted and managed services in a Net-Centric manner, cloud computing can redefine your enterprise and provide a much more efficient use of IT resources. Whereas traditional infrastructure is built and operated within your datacenter, typical cloud computing infrastructure resides off-premise while logically remaining part of your IT environment.
Like many industries, Information Technology is commoditizing. Where it was once a business value and benefit to own and operate IT infrastructure in-house, a commoditizing technology market is making in-house infrastructure more costly to maintain. As the business value of on-premise infrastructure quickly fades, due to high expenses associated with building, operating and maintaining such solutions, cloud computing counterparts have begun to emerge as cost-effective alternatives.
Many businesses have come to realize the enormous expenses and burdens associated with their traditional IT environments and have accepted them as “costs of doing business.” Building and maintaining many of these IT systems purely out of necessity has tended to lead companies astray from their core business objectives while failing to add significance to their value propositions.
The advent of cloud computing has begun to change the IT infrastructure landscape by allowing customers to eliminate these burdens, lower their expenditures, and return their focus to core competencies and objectives. Along with these benefits, many factors are driving a rapid adoption of cloud computing within industry, including:
- Reduced Capital Expenditures
- Quick Time to Market
- Reduce Acquisition of Specialized Skills
- Repurpose Existing Personnel
- Ease of Administration
- Known, Fixed Operating Expenditures
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Lighthouse Gateway delivers the values of cloud computing while providing clients with a comprehensive solution for Enterprise Identity and Access Management – read on to learn how, or try our Total Cost of Ownership Calculator.
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TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP (TCO)
- With no hardware to purchase and maintain, and no large capital expenditures on professional staff, the Lighthouse Gateway solution costs 30-60% less during its first 3 years of operation.
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TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP (TCO)
- With an on-premise infrastructure you incur the following costs:
- Initial costs of installation for hardware and software
- Continual costs for space, power, cooling, back-up, and monitoring
- Continual costs for maintenance and upgrades, to hardware and software
- In-house professional, skilled personnel to execute design, installation, maintenance, and continual support
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TIME-TO-MARKET
- Gateway’s cloud solution has you up and running nearly 75% faster than a traditional, on-premise deployment. Your organization can be exploiting Gateway’s benefits within days or weeks!
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TIME-TO-MARKET
- Moderate sized on-premise IAM solutions typically take an average of 12-24 months to stand up. Worst of all, much of this effort is reinvention of solutions that have been crafted time and time again. Architecture, Design, Installation, Configuration, Custom Development, Integration, Testing, and many other aspects of this time-consuming and expensive proposition are on-premise chores that delay your organization’s ability to immediately begin exploiting the IAM solution, itself.
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HARDWARE NEEDS
- With the Gateway IAM solution you have no need for on-premise hardware. This solution eliminates costs for hardware, maintenance, and upgrades.
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HARDWARE NEEDS
- With an on-premise solution your infrastructure will need to be chosen, purchased, and installed, and will demand continual support, upgrades, and maintenance.
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DATACENTER
- Put your trust in the Gateway’s Datacenter, a SAS 70 Type II compliant environment with 24x7x365 surveillance and support, and Tier 3 datacenter conformance.
- The Gateway’s Datacenter also offers:
- Redundant Power, Cooling, and Connectivity
- 24x7x365 guard surveillance
- A locked, caged, and monitored environment
- Biometric Facility Access
- A 24x7x365 Network Operations Center
- AES-128/256 encryption between all infrastructure end-points
- Man-Traps
- US Department of Defense 100+ point server hardening implemented
- A 24x7x365 Level 1, US-Based Help Desk
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DATACENTER
- On-premise datacenters require organizations to:
- Obtain physical rack space
- Power/Cool the facility
- Continually back-up data
- Secure and monitor the facility
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SOFTWARE NEEDS
- Within your Service Agreement, you receive all the required software maintenance, upgrades, and patches. Gateway handles all of your software management needs, eliminating the cost of specialized personnel often required with an IAM environment.
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SOFTWARE NEEDS
- Much like the hardware needs for an on-premise solution, software needs are also demanding. With an on-premise solution customers should expect to incur expenses for software maintenance, patches, and upgrades. The need and cost of acquiring skilled personnel to maintain software activities becomes yet another responsibility of any organization that chooses an on-premise IAM solution.
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COMPLIANCE
- Gateway services are audited by CISA certified auditors using the COBIT framework to ensure that your business is compliant with industry regulations. This service ensures that the Gateway delivers more than just technology – it delivers technology that enables you to meet your business objectives.
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COMPLIANCE
- When standing up an on-premise IAM infrastructure, it is often likely that the organization’s configuration may fail to meet the standards of regulators and auditors – despite best efforts and intentions. Ensuring compliance with industry regulations is another time-consuming responsibility of an organization that chooses an on-premise solution, no less a risky proposition.
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SECURITY LEARNING CURVE
- The list goes on and on - JAAS, JACC, SSO, WS-Security, SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, X.509, LTPA, LDAP, SSL, Liberty Alliance, PEP/PDP, RBAC, ABAC. With a limited staff it can be difficult to handle the ever growing list of complex standards and protocols. Leveraging Gateway allows you to focus on your core business, while exploiting the latest security standards with ease.
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SECURITY LEARNING CURVE
- Constantly evolving and complex security standards become yet another responsibility when an organization chooses an on-premise solution. Organizations need to ensure that they can dedicate either financial resources or their internal staff to combat the demands of these ever-changing industry standards.
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STAFFING NEEDS
- Lighthouse Gateway eliminates your need to acquire a specialized in-house staff to support an IAM infrastructure, often a costly and difficult initiative. With Gateway, administrators utilize wizards and intuitive point-and-click GUIs, eliminating the need for custom code development and specialized skills.
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STAFFING NEEDS
- When choosing an on-premise solution organizations make the choice to invest in hiring, retaining, and training a highly skilled, professional, and certified staff.
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SUPPORT
- The Gateway’s services include more than just an IAM solution. Lighthouse Gateway comes with the following:
- The knowledge and skills of an accomplished team that has grown from military and IBM roots
- A 24x7x365 Level 1, US-Based Help Desk
- A 24x7x365 Network Operations Center offering around-the-clock monitoring
- On-Going Services Support
- A High-Availability Service Level Agreement
- With Lighthouse Gateway you can feel confident that your IAM solution and your business are fully supported!
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SUPPORT
- When operating an on-premise IAM solution, help desk operations and service availability become an unexpected burden on an organization’s resources and finances. Monitoring, data back-up, help desk integration, and general availability of skilled help become the challenge of your organization.
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