When organizations begin exploring their Identity Management (IDM) needs, one of the most common challenges centers-around user provisioning. User provisioning is the process of creating and removing identity information across various IT assets in an automated fashion. It also happens to be the cornerstone of Identity Management.
The User Provisioning Challenge
Today, your organization may have a manual user provisioning process that includes paper and intensive human oversight, and takes an extraordinary level of effort and time. In many cases, hiring a new employee or contractor, dealing with a promotion or transfer, or processing an employee termination may take weeks to ensure that all IT systems in your organization have been appropriately updated to reflect the change in identity data, entitlements, and user status.
The lack of an automated user provisioning system can mean enormous time and money wasted, especially for larger businesses or those with high turnover rates. The time it takes for users to be appropriately provisioned to IT systems means lost productivity and lower employee satisfaction.
Aside from time and costs, the most critical exposure for businesses without a user provisioning system is non-compliance with security policies, potentially exposing IT assets to users who lack appropriate need or entitlement to maintain accounts on such systems. Slow and ineffective de-provisioning of terminated or transferred employees can create significant vulnerabilities within your organization, opening it to a wide array of issues including physical and logical damage through non-compliance with industry, state, and federal regulations.
The Automated User Provisioning Solution
Lighthouse Gateway’s Identity Management services provide a complete solution for automating the user provisioning process. With over 52 ready-to-use adapters that can communicate with systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, relational databases, LDAP directories, Active Directory, web services, O/S account stores and many more, the Gateway can quickly integrate with all of your organization’s applications, whether commercially acquired or home-grown.
Above: Lighthouse Gateway Automates User Provisioning - Gateway’s workflow capabilities enable authoritative identity data to be provisioned to applications autonomously. A powerful, yet simple to use, workflow engine will allow you to describe, with a simple point-and-click, how events within your environment will trigger user provisioning actions. Automating new hires, promotions, transfers, and termination processes, the Gateway to take the burden off of your staff and ensure the timely handling of these critical actions.
Because not every event is appropriate to handle in an automated fashion, Lighthouse Gateway allows you to define circumstances where human approval, for instance, may be required prior to provisioning a specific class of user or system. An electronic process enables those approvers to quickly review pending requests and take action.
Learn more about Lighthouse Gateway’s ability to manage your organization’s full Identity Lifecycle.
