Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.

Hitachi

Overview Benefits
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Quote

Automated account provisioning tools have almost become a necessity for enterprises -- and the more complex the company, the more urgent its need. With its broad platform support and ease of use, ID-Synch is well worth considering.

-- Brent Huston - 06 Jan 2006, Information Security Magazine

Identity Management Benefits

BUSINESS PROBLEM
ID-SYNCH® BENEFIT
Productivity New hires and staff whose responsibility has changed spend hours, days or weeks waiting for new accounts or privileges, required to do their jobs. ID-Synch® streamlines user provisioning, account provisioning, and administration, reducing wait times to hours or minutes.
Cost savings Security administrators are faced with a large and growing volume of routine changes to user profiles across every system in the enterprise. ID-Synch automates some administration tasks, transfers responsibility for others from security administrators to business users, and streamlines what remains.
Security Users frequently retain access to systems long after it was needed, and in many cases after they left the organization. ID-Synch identifies accounts that belong to each user, and allows organizations to quickly and reliably terminate excessive access privileges.
Regulatory
compliance		 Industry, market and privacy regulations require organizations to enforce reliable and provable internal controls over who has access to what data and when. Such controls depend on business processes that are difficult to implement manually, and user access data that is costly to collect. ID-Synch can report on what users have what access to what systems, and can identify exceptions such as orphan or dormant accounts, helping administrators to quickly and effectively meet regulatory requirements.
Policy enforcement Security policies dictate standard configurations for user accounts, authorization requirements for proposed security changes, password composition and change rules, etc. These policies are difficult to apply consistently to a heterogeneous network. ID-Synch is designed to enforce security policies, including password composition, change authorization, setup standards, audit trails and more. These rules apply uniformly to every IT asset in the enterprise.