Next-Gen Identity Analytics and Access Governance Approach

As Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) becomes a crucial part of every organization’s security portfolio, it is necessary to learn from past mistakes and build a business-centric IGA rather than technology-centric IGA to bridge the ever-increasing disconnect between business and IT security functions due to traditional IGA practices. IAM leaders must avoid shifting of IGA priorities from operational efficiency, better UX and risk management to just auditing and compliance. It is important that security leaders with a focus on IAM are able to demonstrate success early-on with initial IGA deployment phases to build necessary consensus among the business community and gather required support for on-going IGA activities. Identity Analytics and Access Governance have turned out to be effective instruments in helping IAM leaders achieve these objectives.

The paradigm shift to business-oriented IGA brings about several challenges, including:

• Being able to address the compliance needs such as periodic access certifications for access to data, resources, privileged operations, applications and other IT assets
• Building and automating access governance controls around new business initiatives
• Enforcing a user centric approach by educating and allowing better control of processes to stakeholders
• Being able to extend access governance and identity analytics to cloud-based systems (SaaS, IaaS etc.)

In the first part of the webinar, Anmol Singh, Lead Analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts AG, will discuss the challenges of conventional IGA and what is important for IAM leaders to know about IGA transformation. He will then provide inputs on how organizations need to align their processes to support the transition to Next-Gen IGA.

In the second part of the webinar, Sebastien Faivre, co-founder and CTO of the Brainwave company, will present Brainwave´s vision of the position of Identity Analytics and Governance compared to IAM presenting their approach to solve governance needs. To support his vision, he will illustrate this webinar with a short demonstration of the solution: Identity Analytics functions and Access Certification of 2000 entries within 3 minutes. He will demonstrate how it is possible to solve governance needs within 3 months with a dedicated IGA approach.