What is Identity Management?

Identity Management is the administration of an employee's identity throughout his or her time with one company. Identity Management shows the rights and relationships the employee has when interacting within the company's network. Consider the process of adding a new hire to all of your business systems; including human resources, e-mail, phone, directory and network operating systems. How long will that take? How long is the process to remove a former employee from the same systems? Several pieces of information are captured when an employee begins employment but may not be stored in one, central location.

These identifiers and attributes are stored in several locations depending on their use within each department. When a new employee is hired, a profile is created within the system that includes their personal information. A user profile will tell the company who they are, what they are entitled to do, when they are allowed to perform specific functions, where they are allowed to perform functions from and why they have been granted permissions. This process is manual in a traditional setting as to be replicated across all departments within the company.

If an employee needs access to a certain building, application, specific data stores, etc., he or she will need to have an administrator provision access. A company utilizing identity management software would create a central profile in the system that has new hires up and running on day one. This central profile would synchronize the privileges and employee identity across all departments. This software also allows for the management of passwords from a central location.

Logs are kept throughout the user's employment life cycle to ensure each business utilizing the software is audit-ready. When the life cycle of the employee ends, so will their access. The employee will not have access to any of the applications, directories, data stores, etc. because of the instant termination of the identity across all departments and systems.

Why Choose GCA Technology Services for your Identity and Access Management Solutions?

GCA Technology Services has the knowledge and the solutions to help simplify your Identity and Access Management needs. Identity and Access solutions are designed to make the employee authentication process a breeze. There are several solutions saleable to any business.

There is a solution right for your business whether you're the owner of a single gas station or a representative of a Fortune 500 company. GCA Technology Services connects the core employee resource systems through one simple authoritative source, while eliminating the use of paper forms and phone calls to the help desk for support. We can provide easy adjustments to a user's accounts to enable more secure systems, reduce operating costs and improve the quality of your IT services.