Modern enterprises depend on servers, databases, network devices, and software applications to effectively run their businesses. Access to manage each of these systems requires the use of administrative IDs and access rights. Effectively and securely managing a very large number of systems is a challenge for many organizations. Solution providers such as Hitachi ID Systems can address these challenges through automated privileged access management.

“Organizations are challenged to efficiently and securely onboard and deactivate users by managing an ever growing number of passwords, a large number of user security rights and audit records of all these changes. In the education sector, these problems are exacerbated by a large volume of users moving from applicant, to student status, through graduation. Where private corporations may onboard or deactivate one user at a time, a college may have to move tens of thousands at once,” says Idan Shoham, CTO and Co-founder, Hitachi ID System. “Other challenges specific to higher education include the need to manage identities, access rights and credentials for a very large number of alumni and multiple affiliations per user–for example, the same user may be a lecturer in one department, a staff member in another, and a student in a third,” he added. Also, IT departments in higher education must support faculty and staff access to laptops, HR data, etc., grouped by various categories of students, faculty, guest lecturers, alumni, community access and more. Such access must support the heavy use of personal devices (BYOD) within the school and between institutions.

Hitachi ID’s Identity Management Suite is an integrated solution for managing identities and security entitlements across multiple systems and applications. The suite comprises of three core fully-integrated products: Password Manager, Identity Manager and Privileged Access Manager. The suite automates on-boarding, movement and deactivation of users in a secure environment. Identity Manager uses automation, synchronization, self-service, delegated administration and certification to drive user access changes to entitlements on systems and applications.