Identity Access Management

RSI Security can help your organization implement security protocols that limit data access without impeding productivity. You can now manage privileges with fine-grained access control, while gaining visibility and having the ability to produce the necessary reports to demonstrate compliance with regulations your industry has to comply.

Let RSI Security help you address identity and access management (IAM) within your company, business or organization. IAM is a cornerstone of any sound cybersecurity and compliance strategy because IAM covers the basics of who has authorized access to which systems and how they’re authenticated.

User access management is paramount in not only keeping hackers out. Adopting IAM best practices - along with an effective identity management system - prevents internal personnel from accidentally accessing unauthorized data. RSI Security’s identity management solutions will help you develop a comprehensive IAM strategy for your entire organization.

RSI Security’s identity and user access management experts will help you assess current user access management practices to detect weaknesses. We’ll then formulate a complete identity management system to set you up for long-term IAM success.

What Is Identity and Access Management?

Identity and access management is a set of tools and processes that help secure IT infrastructure by controlling who can access certain components. An identity & access management system ensures that only the right individuals can gain access to sensitive digital environments, mitigating the risks of data breaches.

Identity and access management is critical to mitigating exploitable gaps in access controls, such as weak authentication protocols or poor password use practices. For identity and access management solutions to be effective, they must align with an organization’s security policy on access controls.

How Does IAM Work?

The primary goal of an IAM is to ensure that the correct users gain access to sensitive digital environments. Identity and access management tools work via two main processes:

• User authentication, where the IAM tools determine if the correct users are accessing system components
• User authorization, where the identity and access management solutions provide access to systems following authentication

IAM tools also provide various levels of security, with some solutions limiting access to data or platforms while others control which users can perform specific processes within an IT infrastructure.

Identity and Access Management Compliance

Implementing identity and access management is a requirement for several regulatory compliance frameworks, such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

When it comes to compliance, IAM solutions help safeguard personally identifiable information (PII) from data breach risks by preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data environments.

Although they are similar in some respect, each security framework has its own set of IAM compliance requirements that include physical, technical, or administrative controls.