Abstract
Despite very real threats from outside the firewall, a lack of sound internal
processes and procedures may pose an even greater risk to the security of the
enterprise.
Secure Identity Management and user provisioning, in particular, are currently
receiving much media attention due to the demonstrable Return on Investment
(RoI) and other efficiency benefits that such software solutions provide. Despite
the obvious financial benefits, however, the main drivers for the implementation
of user provisioning software (centralized user administration, password
synchronization and access control) should still be security and audit related.
Successful implementation of a user provisioning solution delivers a number of
security benefits, the most obvious of which is the knowledge that only those
users who should have access to applications do so, and that they do so at the
appropriate access security level.
This White Paper provides a detailed description of the security and audit
related features and benefits of user provisioning software, and uses one
such package – COSuser from OSM – as an example.
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