Employees must have access to the apps, files, and data stored by their company, regardless of where they are located. The bulk of employees used to work on-site, behind a firewall, where corporate resources were stored in the old fashion. When workers arrived on site and logged in, they could access the necessary resources.
However, employees require secure access to company resources whether they work remotely or on-site because hybrid work is more frequent than ever. Identity and access management, or IAM, is useful in this situation. The IT department of the company requires a mechanism to manage user access so that private information and features are only available to those who need to utilize them.
Identity management and access management work together to provide safe access to an organization’s resources.
An identity management database, which is a running list of all authorized users, is consulted when evaluating a login attempt. As people join or leave the organization, their projects and roles change, and the organization’s scope changes, this information needs to be updated regularly.
An identity management database may contain the following types of data: personal email addresses, mobile phone numbers, managers, direct reports, and personnel names and job titles. Authentication is the process of verifying a user’s identification in the database by matching their login details, such as their username and password.
IAM is crucial to cybersecurity because it assists an organization’s IT department in finding the ideal balance between limiting access to particular services and vital data while leaving the majority of users unable to access them. Controls that provide safe access to workers and their equipment while making it difficult or impossible for others to enter are made feasible by IAM.
