Identity Management

As organizations see increasing demand for access to resources by employees, customers, and even business partners beyond their traditional boundaries, the need to open up access to more users in more ways - without compromising security - becomes increasingly clear. The right approach to identity management makes this possible by enabling organizations to effectively and securely manage user identities, and to do this equally well for all users throughout the extended enterprise.

Today’s enterprise faces unprecedented challenges in protecting sensitive data, increasing business process efficiencies, and keeping the cost of identity management under control - all at the same time. These challenges are exacerbated by an enterprise environment in which information security is critical, the amount of change is ever-increasing, and the pressure to comply with legislative mandates is on the rise. Enterprises need to meet these challenges with an identity management solution that reduces the costs and complexities of securely managing access privileges and identity profile information.

Crescent Identity Management Solution is a complete solution for user provisioning and metadirectory. It provides a comprehensive solution for companies that need to manage identity profiles and permissions in a manner that enhances enterprise security – while simultaneously delivering a significant return on investment (ROI).

Identity management addresses a number of key business challenges for the enterprise:
 

• Security, through comprehensive, current information about who has access to what applications and data
• Cost reduction, by automating slow, error prone manual processes for provisioning and auditing
• Data protection and privacy, with secure control of access to information and resources
• Compliance, through comprehensive auditing and reporting capabilities
• Fast time to market, by accelerating the processes of sharing access with business partners
• Revenue growth, by speeding the deployment and delivery of new services from multiple partners
• Improved service levels, with powerful user self-service and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities

Crescent Identity Management Solution opens the enterprise to new, collaborative business opportunities while enabling compliance, streamlining operations, and improving security.

Key capabilities include:
 

• Provisioning
• Password Management
• Identity Data Synchronization
• Secure Access Control
• Single Sign-on
• Directory Services
• Auditing and Reporting
• Federation Services
• Identity Administration Services
• Enhance security
• Automatically detect and react to potential risks such as dormant accounts
• Enforce consistent corporate security policies
• Provide central point to revoke user accounts

The benefits of Crescent Identity Management Solution include:

• Offer visibility into user accounts with reporting on access privileges
• Improve audit performance and legislative compliance
• Lower costs
• Automate provisioning and data synchronization
• Reduce workload for user administration staff with self service capabilities and delegated administration
• Improve productivity
• Automate provisioning and de-provisioning processes
• Enable users to manage their own information, request access, reset passwords